Humanities
The Open Course wares (OCW) are free educational course wares
provided by several Universities across the globe with a view to
promote and widen the knowledge base of users through free content
and course material etc. The OCWs are available on variety of subjects
and courses. In fact today OCW is available for all major disciplines
of educational including professional programs like Humanities, Language,
Mathematics, Basic Sciences, Management and Engineering & Technology etc.
The OCW is a University material licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution ? Non Commercial ? Share Alike license. The OCW material
is made available to see and use by anyone; the material is distributed via internet.
The OCW material is available in a wide variety of subjects. Any one
from anywhere can access the Open Course Ware at his / her comfort.
The Open Course Ware is the brain child of faculties of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts who has taken the initiative
to provide all under graduate and graduate material online. The MIT has
announced the project in 2001. Today the MIT is providing about 1800 course
material of under graduate and graduate programme through internet under its?
Open Course Ware (OCW) module.
As MIT begin its task of teaching masses through its Open Course Ware
(OCW), many other institutions of the world follow the trend. As a result,
in 2005, the MIT?s Open Course Ware and other leading OCW projects formed the
OCW Consortium.
The OCW Consortium seeks to extend the reach and impact of open course material,
promote new courses through OCW module and build up sustainable models for open
courseware publication.
The OCW material is available on whole range of subjects through different universities? websites.
The OCW is a boon to all those learners willing to learn something new
and ultimately beneficial to society and industry.
For your convenience the manabadi has
compiled a list of Institutes / universities providing OCW.
