The goal of opencourseware

 The goal of OpenCourseWare

OpenCourseWare is a part of the Open Education Consortium, a community formed by higher education institutions and organizations committed to promote and advance open education worldwide.

 Open Education combines the traditions of knowledge sharing with the advances of the latest technological advancements to create an open educational resource database, relevant to the educational and professional needs of a great variety of learners.

Classic style education is limited by the class capacity of higher education institutions, so it is only available to a limited number of students. Open Education helps individuals and societies solve these challenges and open the way to a global audience that may benefit from free, high-quality educational resources.

The main mission of OpenCourseWare was to empower the entire world and to facilitate access to higher education to a number of people that either financially or for other personal reasons, could not afford to attend university classes.

These online study materials are designed for a wide range of people around the world, including high-school and college or university students, teachers and educators or adult learners. Available courses include a wide palette of subjects, from arts, psychology, history to computer science, business and engineering.

Users that want to begin their study within OpenCourseWare don’t have to register, they simply go on the website and click on the item they wish to read, listen or see. Most educational institutions integrate a flexible web interface, giving the users several options for structuring their learning methods, for instance downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.