Talk:OpenCourseWare

Edx as open courseware
Edx as open courseware is misleading. Edx platform is open source but courses are not open license. Edx does not allow users to download, redistribute and modify the materials, which is a key component of the open courseware movement.

This article also needs information about Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative. Their courses are technically open.

Kaveri (talk) 18:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

YouTube Educational Content Creators
Would content from YouTube such as PatrickJMT and MinutePhysics be considered OCW? They are high quality educational content but are not backed by an academic institution.Tbobo05 (talk) 06:12, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't think so - if individual postings on YouTube aren't done thru a university's OCW program, it is not officially OCW. No doubt some of these materials are good, but if you teach at a school with no OCW program, or if you just want to post a single lecture video or excerpt rather than a whole course, then individual postings on YouTube are good - but sometimes harder for people to find. Kentlee7 (talk) 01:52, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

the content management systems for OCW
I have added an article/link of one of free opensource content management systems for OCW, eduCommons, to this article, but User:EconoPhysicist deleted all of the article and link. Sorry if that article had some illegal against Wikipedia rules. But I don't understand, why these articles was deleted? I think that these softwares can contribute to OCW, these things should be included into this article for universites in all over the world.--HATA A. K. (talk) 12:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate you asking. The reason that I deleted it was that its importance within OCW was not substantiated. If this is indeed an important content management system that is being used by many OpenCourseWare projects, then it merits inclusion in this article. If you re-insert it into the article, please mention universities that are using this system and cite a reference if possible. EconoPhysicist (talk) 21:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply and explanation. The CMS for OCW helps for openning/constructing OCW for universities. For example, many OpenCourseWare sites in universities (eduCommons adapter's *partial* list http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/adopters) use the CMS eduCommons. The CMS project at Utah State University attends in MIT OpenCourseWare project (Please see p.33 or 34. in http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Special-Programs/SP-772Spring-2005-Summer-2005/9F843D71-8CC3-43CA-8BE1-17A59F406D66/0/l11_opencoursewa.pdf). I do not know other big CMS project for OCW. Unfortunately, I knew about OCW in Japanese page/blog. I do not know good references in English. Therefore, if these references are not enough to insert in Wikipedia, I will wait for being written down by somebody with references.--HATA A. K. (talk) 05:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)


 * "many of which have been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation." without citation is added by User:EconoPhysicist, even though the man deleted other articles by other persons without citation. Please add the citation of the information. Is the "many of which" included universities in the world not only USA?--HATA A. K. (talk) 04:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Question on the current first sentence: I don't know who added the line about OCW being posted in a virtual learning environment, but 95% of the OCW content out there is in fact not in a virtual learning environment and does not support any kind of interactive learning. Most OCW is a static resource without learning support. Should this be changed?

I agree on that OCW is not based on a VLE nor does it utilize a LMS. Tbobo05 (talk) 06:13, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Dead link
Last link seems to be dead! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.178.23.29 (talk) 07:11, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

More international coverage
More on OCW internationally is needed, including North America and Europe, where it has had its main impetus. This article focuses mainly on China and Japan, which have been leaders in the Asian OCW movement, but more general and broader coverage is needed, as well as more about its history, international scope, types of content offerings, and the organized OCW movement, e.g., the OCW Consortium and OCW conferences. Also, what kinds of university departments run these OCW programs, and how are they funded? Kentlee7 (talk) 01:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

University of Tübingen reference
"The OpenCourseWare movement started in 1999 when the University of Tübingen in Germany published videos of lectures online for its timms initiative.[1] The OCW movement only took off, however, with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in October 2002."

I've seen this reference repeated a couple of places in the media. These lectures were made available online, yes, but they were not made available under an open license that allowed users to download, redistribute and modify the materials, which was a key component of the OCW formula. I think it's a bit of a reach for UofT to claim they kicked off the OpenCourseWare movement when they did not openly license their materials. I am sure their were other schools that posted copyrighted lectures online in that era as well who could make an equally valid (or invalid) claim. Their offering does note meet the principles listed in the very next section of the page. Scarsonmit (talk) 17:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC) Steve Carson

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Request permission to remove
This template claims that this article does not represent a "worldwide view". I think that problem has been remedied, since there are separate sections for all the nations. I don't think I have a conflict of interest, although I am deeply involved with the OpenCourseWare movement. I stumbled upon this page, and in fact, the word "OpenCourseWare" after a discussion where the question arose as to what would be an appropriate label for this movement. Given the significance of the MIT Opencourseware effort, I think this is the appropriate label, and for that reason, this article should not have an unnecessary template in the lede. If there are no comments I will soon remove the template.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 14:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)