About the Opencourseware Consortium

About the Opencourseware Consortium

ABOUT THE OPENCOURSEWARE CONSORTIUM

As of July 15, 2006

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of The OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

The Goals of the Consortium

  • Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
  • Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
  • Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.

Participation Requirements

In order to participate in Consortium activities, institutions must have committed to publishing, under the institution’s name, materials from at least 10 courses in a format that meets the agreed-upon definition of an opencourseware. Organizations that do not publish their own content but whose activities further Consortium goals –such as translation and distribution affiliates –also participate in Consortium activities. For more information on Consortium activities or participation requirements, please contact Stephen Carson, MIT OpenCourseWare, at 1-617-253-1250 or at .

Participating Organizations

Institutions and organizations participating in OpenCourseWare Consortium activities will have the following button featured on their individual OCW Web sites:

View the current list of institutions and organizations participating in OpenCourseWare Consortium activities below, and on the OpenCourseWare Consortium portal Web site available at Institutions and organizations participating in OpenCourseWare Consortium activities include:

Austria

  • University of Klagenfurt

China

  • China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
  • Beijing Hang University (CORE Member)
  • Beijing Jiao Tong University (CORE Lead)
  • Beijing Normal University (CORE Lead)
  • Beijing Science and Technology University (CORE Member)
  • Central Radio and TV University (CORE Lead)
  • Central South University (CORE Lead)
  • China Mining University (CORE Member)
  • China People's University (CORE Member)
  • China Science and Technology University (CORE Member)
  • Dalian University of Technology (CORE Lead)
  • Fu Dan University (CORE Member)
  • International Business and Economics University China (CORE Member)
  • Nanjing University (CORE Member)
  • Northeast University (CORE Member)
  • Northwest University (CORE Member)
  • North Western Polytechnical University (CORE Member)
  • Peking University (CORE Lead)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CORE Member)
  • Sichuan University (CORE Lead)
  • Tianjin University (CORE Member)
  • Tsinghua University (CORE Lead)
  • Xi'an Jiao Tong University (CORE Lead)
  • Zhejiang University (CORE Lead)

France

  • ParisTech “Graduate School”
  • École Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF)
  • École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC)
  • École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
  • École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP)
  • École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP)
  • École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST)
  • École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA)
  • École Polytechnique (EP)
  • École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
  • Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G)
  • École Nationale de Statistique et d'Administration Économique (ENSAE) (associate member)

Japan

  • Japan OCW Consortium
  • Hokkaido University
  • Keio University
  • Kyoto University
  • Kyushu University
  • Nagoya University
  • Osaka University
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • University of Tokyo
  • Waseda University
  • United Nations University

Saudi Arabia

  • Alfaisal University

South Africa

  • University of the Western Cape

Spain and Portugal

  • Universia OCW
  • Universidad Alicante
  • Universidad Aveiro
  • Universidad Barcelona
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Universidad Islas Baleares
  • Universidad Jaume I
  • Universidad Murcia
  • Universidad Oviedo
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  • Universidad Rovira i Virgili
  • Universidad Santiago de Compostela
  • Universidad Sevilla

Thailand

  • Chulalongkorn University

United Kingdom

  • The Open University

United States

  • Defense Acquisition University
  • Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michigan State University
  • Tufts University
  • University of Michigan School of Information
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Utah State University
  • Utah Valley State College
  • Wheelock College

Venezuela

  • Universidad Central de Venezuela

Vietnam

  • Fulbright Economics Teaching Program

Affiliate Organizations

  • African Virtual University
  • China Open Resource for Education (CORE)
  • Chulalongkorn University
  • Fahamu
  • National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME)
  • Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS)
  • Thailand Cyber University
  • Universia
  • Vietnam OpenCourseWare (VOCW)
  • The Widernet Project eGranary Digital Library

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