Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

Abstract

OpenCourseWares are online open access collections of educational materials used in courses at universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Open University, Johns Hopkins, Kyoto University, Notre Dame, and Korea University. [...]to extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the OpenCourseWare concept (MIT, 2006). Projects include the Internet Archive (see http://internetarchive.org), Project Gutenberg (see http://gutenberg.org), Wikipedia (see http://wikipedia.com), Creative Commons (see http://creativecommons.org), Sun Microsystems Global Education Learning Community (see https://edu-gelc.dev.java.net/nonav/index.html) and, as is the focus of this article, the OpenCourseWare Consortium (see http://ocwconsortium.org).