What is Open Courseware?
Courseware is digital ancillary materials to support a text, usually bundled with an electronic version of the text. These ancillary materials can include quizzes and homework problems, clicker software, and adaptive or personalized feedback to the student and instructor.
What is Open Courseware?
Increasingly, many institutions are offering open access to courses, which includes courseware such as lectures, presentation slides, and additional materials. One example is MIT, which offers open lectures on YouTube with links to syllabi, notes and reading lists, as well as assignments and solutions available on their website.
MIT OCW
Open Courseware
- Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
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University of Michigan Open.Michigan
Access a range of course materials, videos, lectures, student work and more. Nearly all of the content here is openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons. -
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. - Tufts OpenCourseWare
Tufts University is committed to offering the world's learners free access to its many academic resources. Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas.