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Open Course Ware (OCW)

OpenCourseWare (OCW) is aneducational initiative developed bythe Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) to make the coreteaching materials for all MITgraduate and undergraduate classesavailable at no cost to Internetusers around the world.

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Open Course Ware (OCW)

OCW has been compared to the opensource software movement because coursematerials on the OCW site will be "open andfreely available worldwide for non-commercial purposes such as research andeducation, providing an extraordinaryresource, free of charge, which others canadapt to their own needs".

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Open Course Ware (OCW)

President Vest has said that althoughOCW appears counter-intuitive in amarket-driven world, it is particularlyappropriate for a research universitysuch as MIT where ideas move quicklyfrom the laboratory to the classroombefore there is even time to publish itin textbooks.

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OpenCourseWare (OCW)

OCW is not seen as a substitute forrevenue-generating distanceeducation (which requires interactionbetween teacher and student) butrather as a Web-based resource forteachers and learners around theglobe.

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According to the website of the OCW

Consortium, an OCW project:

Is a free and open digital publication of highquality educational materials, organized ascourses.

Is available for use and adaptation under anopen license, such as certain CreativeCommons licenses.

Does not typically provide certification oraccess to faculty.

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Audio OCW

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