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The OpenCourseWare or OCW is a term related with course materials created from the universities, and then they share freely all this documents and a guide for studying over the world through internet. OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
This new initiative began at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 with the name MIT OpenCourseWare. At the beginning they offered 50 courses in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Next year the number of courses increased reaching 500 courses, nowadays they offer more than 1900 courses related to more than 33 academic disciplines in several languages.
PARTNERS
This initiative has several partners whom are translating OCW course materials into Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Thai. Partners:
- Universia: is a consortium of more than 800 colleges in Spain,Portugal, and Latin America. The translated courses have links on their OCW homepages directly to the Universia-translated version.
- China Open Resources for Education: (CORE) is a consortium of leading universities in China that has translated OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
- Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System: (OOPS) is a volunteer-based organization that has translated OCW courses into Traditional Chinese.
- Chulalongkorn University: is considered one of Thailand's most prestigious and oldest universities. The translated courses have links on their OCW homepages directly to the Chulalongkorn-translated version in Thai.
- Shahid Beheshti University: was established in 1959 as the National University of Iran. The translated courses have links on their OCW homepage directly to the Shahid Beheshti-translated version in Persian.
Also exists more consortium members such us:
- African Virtual University, http://www.avu.org/home.asp
- ParisTech "Graduate School", http://graduateschool.paristech.org/?langue=EN
- Japan OCW Consortium, http://www.jocw.jp/
- United Nations University, http://www.ocw.unu.edu/
- The WiderNet Project eGranary Digital Library, http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/