OpenCourseWare
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OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet. OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.
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- Instance of
- database
- Official name
- OpenCourseWare
- Participant
- Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
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- official blog URL
- www.ocw-openmatters.org
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Software
- topic's main category
- Category:OpenCourseWare
- Commons category
- OpenCourseWare
- short name
- OCW
- inception
- 2001-04-00
- opposite of
- closed source
- contributor to the creative work or subject
- Andrew W. Mellon
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OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet. OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.
==History== The OpenCourseWare movement started in 1999 when the University of Tübingen in Germany published videos of lectures online for its timms initiative (Tübinger Internet Multimedia Server). The OCW movement only took off with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University in October 2002. The movement was reinforced by the launch of similar projects at Yale, Utah State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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