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OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet.OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.
MIT OpenCourseWare is supported by MIT, corporate underwriting, major gifts, and donations from site visitors. [2] The initiative inspired a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources. [3] As of May 2018, over 2,400 courses were available online.
The first MOOCs emerged from the open educational resources (OER) movement, which was sparked by MIT OpenCourseWare project. [15] The OER movement was motivated from work by researchers who pointed out that class size and learning outcomes had no established connection.
Open Yale Courses launched in December 2007 with seven courses from various departments. The project now includes 40 courses from a broad range of introductory courses taught at Yale college. [ 1 ] The initiative was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , [ 2 ] which has supported other universities' OpenCourseWare projects.
MIT Open Learning is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) organization, [1] [2] headed by Dimitris Bertsimas, [3] that oversees several MIT educational initiatives, such as MIT Open CourseWare, MITx, [4] MicroMasters, [5] MIT Bootcamps [6] and others.
Other initiatives derived from MIT OpenCourseWare are China Open Resources for Education and OpenCourseWare in Japan. The OpenCourseWare Consortium, founded in 2005 to extend the reach and impact of open course materials and foster new open course materials, counted more than 200 member institutions from around the world in 2009. [117]
The Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, was a web-based publication of educational material from a number of Tufts University courses, providing open sharing of free, searchable, high-quality course content to educators, students, and self-learners throughout the global community.
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