Panel Abstract - OCW

 

OpenCourseWare: Interoperating to Open Access to Education

 

Brandon Muramatsu, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

Cecilia d'Oliveira, MIT OpenCourseWare

Willem van Valkenburg, Delft University of Technology

 

The OpenCourseWare movement began in 2001 when MIT announced its intent to publish nearly all of its course materials to the Web. Fast forward to today, where 1,800 MIT OCW courses are available, and there are over 100 organizations publishing over 6,000 courses in OpenCourseWares across the globe. OpenCourseWares are typically course materials published by the organization. Over the last two years, these organizations have come together to collaborate and interoperate through the OpenCourseWare Consortium. This panel will feature representatives describing what they're doing to help educators and students meet their educational needs through complementary and collaborative approaches to interoperability. Panelists will discuss approaches to search and discovery, through metadata standards and shared transmission mechanisms, as well as how they're helping educators and students use and reuse of content, through content packaging standards.