Hallo Everyone, today I'm going to share with you all about a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
So what's all this about? Can you educate yourself for free? Taking any sort of courses in the university for free? You can find course materials and share your university courses? Yes, thats right!
This is the video i get from iTunes podcast. The source is from Chris Pirillo Show, my favourite geek in the community.
This is the website. OpenCourseWare is a free education for all of us.
About Studying in University and OpenCourseWare, Which better?
Studying college or University is quite costly just to get a certificate and a degree or even PhD. Is it worth to pay the cost to get that, even the bank don't need your certificate to give u a loan? In some other way, it is worth to get it as a backup. It is important to study hard and get a degree for most of the people, but for me it's not really that important.
So in this website, you can't get a degree certificate, but you can educate yourself for external knowledge. You can find many resource materials in the website and download it for free. I like this very much as I can learn before entering university and gain more knowledge!
About OpenCourseWare
"Open Sharing, Global Benefits." The slogan of the website!
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 200 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 Organizations that do not publish their own content but whose activities further Consortium goals—such as translation and distribution affiliates—also participate in Consortium activities.
From OpenCourseWare Consortium
What am I going to do with this useful website?
Yeah, I'm going to search some of the courses that i'm interested such as web design, real estate program and business management. I have not start searching it, but I plan to during this weekend when I have some spare time.
I was excited to share with the community with this useful website, thanks for the tips from Chris Pirillo, do subscribe him in Youtube and join geeks! community. Good Night!
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