Title :
Development of the OCW Consortium
Author :
Carson, Stephen ; Forward, Mary Lou
Author_Institution :
OpenCourseWare Consortium, MIT OpenCourseWare, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper documents the development of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, from the origins of the OCW concept at MIT and that Institute´s early commitment to supporting other adopters of the model, to the rapid growth of the community in the period 2004-2007, to the Consortium´s incorporation as an independent entity and current activities and status.
Keywords :
courseware; OCW consortium development; opencourseware; Assembly; Computer aided instruction; Curriculum development; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Internet; Proposals; Publishing; Resonance; OpenCourseWare; open educational resources;
Conference_Titel :
Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6568-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6570-5
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492401
