OpenCourseWare (OCW) can be summarized as: 1) OCW refers to open digital educational materials from universities, including course planning materials, content, and evaluation tools, that are freely accessible online to anyone. 2) "Open" means the materials are free to access, use, and share without fees or access barriers. They can be reused, redistributed, revised, and remixed. 3) OCW aims to provide high quality educational resources that are organized as courses and cover a range of topics, acting as a supplement to formal higher education.

1. What is OpenCourseWare?

2. Presentation by Stephanie Verbeken
is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution
2.0 Belgium License.

3. Some important terms and abbreviations
in the field of OpenEducation
OCW OpenCourseWare, Open Courses
OER Open Educational Resources
CCL Creative Commons License
MOOC Massive Open Online Course
OA(J) Open Access (Journal)

4. What is OpenCourseWare?
If you want to know what
OpenCourseWare is...

5. What is OpenCourseWare?
...we first have to tell you
what 'open' means...

6. What is OpenCourseWare?
...then we tell you what
courseware is...

7. What is OpenCourseWare?
...and then you know what
OpenCourseWare is.

8. What is OpenCourseWare?
• Open = free • Digital (online)
o as in 'free beer': no fees • Accessible to anyone,
o as in 'freedom': be free anyplace, anywhere,
anytime
Sources: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/ and
to
• REUSE learning materials: • Interdisciplinary use
copy • Quality criterium (thanks to
David Wiley http://slideshare.net/opencontent
• REDISTRIBUTE: share the bigger social control)
with others
• REVISE: edit and adapt
• REMIX: develop new
combinations

9. What is OpenCourseWare?
OCW OER Open content
OpenCourseWare Open Educational
Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
Resources
Open Courses Text Open Access
Static images Wikimedia
Dynamic images OpenOffice
Video OpenSource
Sound Wikipedia
Scientific Articles Slideshare
Tables, graphs, Youtube
spreadsheet Flickr
... ...

10. What is OpenCourseWare?
"A course is a package of educational materials starting at a particular point
in the knowledge spectrum, designed to lead to
a greater understanding of the issue or topic"
Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
OCW
-seal:
study guides to
guide course
takers: how to get
OER
from A to B?

11. What is OpenCourseWare?
• An Open Course can be an original source or course: a
self developped course, constituted by self developed
content
OR
Source: Willem Van Valkenburg http://www.e-learn.nl/
• because of the 'sharing character' of OER and OCW
o translation
o combination of several courses (whether they are
orginal or not)
o etc...
cfr. 4R's

12. What is OpenCourseWare?
Source: OpenCourseWare Consortium http://ocwconsortium.org/en/aboutus/whatisocw
The definition that the OpenCourseWare Consortium uses:
AN OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) IS A FREE AND OPEN
DIGITAL PUBLICATION OF HIGH QUALITY COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY‐LEVEL EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS.
THESE MATERIALS ARE ORGANIZED AS
COURSES, AND OFTEN INCLUDE COURSE
PLANNING MATERIALS AND EVALUATION TOOLS
AS WELL AS THEMATIC CONTENT.
OPENCOURSEWARE ARE FREE AND OPENLY
LICENSED, ACCESSIBLE TO ANYONE,
ANYTIME VIA THE INTERNET.