Benefits of OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare fulfils people’s desire to learn, and offers benefits to many interested groups:
Students can get additional information, viewpoints and materials to help them succeed.
Workers gain valuable help, as they can learn something that will help them on the job.
Faculty members can exchange ideas and information with peers around the world.
Researchers share data and develop new networks.
Teachers find improved ways to help students learn.
Materials may be translated, edited, improved, mixed together and shared. The license that covers most of the lectures and other course materials is Creative Commons' Attribution-Noncommercial-Share license. This license allows the free use or re-purposing of the course materials by others, as long as you credit the faculty as the original source and you use it for non-commercial reasons.
Education has never been more available and free to such a vast audience
An opencourseware is often considered a tool for improving skills or the grasp of key concepts in people’s current studies. For example, high-school or college students that don’t completely understand a topic that is taught in a traditional class, can understand it properly through a webinar or a reading provided by an educational institution, member of OpenCourseWare.
Free access to education with OpenCourseWare
You could say that for the wide OpenCourseWare consortium, students and the idea of offering anyone the possibility to learn or upgrade their skills is the most important value in the current global education.
Seize the unique and interesting opportunity provided by many universities worldwide, including reputed ones, to open the door to anyone who wants to access their educational learning resources! Browse through thousands of available online study materials and widen your intellectual horizons.
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