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The Future is Open Courseware: Three Institutions Offering Online Learning Opportunities

February 2, 2012

As society becomes increasingly more tech savvy, more and more of the foundations of our lives are turning to the web. Our professional lives have been conduced online and plugged in for several years now and, with the advent of social media and social networking, so too are our personal and social lives. The latest [...]

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How Online Education Can Benefit from the Social Media Model

March 1, 2011

According to a recent article and interview in Inside Higher Ed, free online course material from the likes of Harvard, Yale, and MIT has done wonders for the online education movement; however, it is now facing what Inside Higher Ed calls an ‘existential moment’ as a result of the rise of for-profit online education. Especially [...]

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Notre Dame Opencourseware (OCW)

September 3, 2007

Notre Dame Opencourseware (OCW). ‘Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Notre Dame OCW does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty. What Notre Dame OCW does give you is open access to the materials used in a variety [...]

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Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online

May 25, 2007

Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online. Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online was designed and developed and is maintained by the Dallas Baptist University Online Education Department. This site contains tips and tricks for designing course content, facilitating and teaching online, developing learning objects, assessment ideas and tutorials for Blackboard, just to name a few. [...]

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CSMonitor on OpenCourseWare

January 5, 2007

How to go to M.I.T. for free. ‘By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won’t have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? [...]

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A Great Tool: OpenCourseWare Finder

November 28, 2006

OpenCourseWare Finder. Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags. See also: OpenContent.Org Open Content Wiki. A place for collaborating on, scheming about, planning for, and developing open educational resources.

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JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)

July 9, 2006

JHSPH OpenCourseWare. ‘The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and [...]

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

May 15, 2006

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). ‘MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. MIT OCW’s goals are to: provide free, [...]

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