2015 Spring: 四技通識選修-Reading 1

OpenCourseWare

1. OpenCourseWare
Group 6 (ppt) by Vicki, Jessie, Simon, Iris, Lucy, Ruby, & Lucy
2. Definition of OpenCourseWare
Courseware: Educational software designed especially for classroom use.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an educational initiative developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make the core teaching materials for all MIT graduate and undergraduate classes available at no cost to Internet users around the world.
Open: Free
 3. Some opencoursewares
A. MIT OpenCourseWare
 http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
 B. EdX : Free online courses from world’s best universities.
 https://www.edx.org
 (1) From their official website (https://www.edx.org)
 (2) From Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/EdXOnline)
The Science of Happiness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cqm3d0Vg5c
C. Yale University
http://oyc.yale.edu/
D. UC Irvine
http://ocw.uci.edu/
Education => Language and Literacy (http://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/educ_151_lec_01_language_and_literacy_understanding_language_literacy_and_thought_part_i.html)
E. 台大開放課程
http://ocw.aca.ntu.edu.tw/ntu-ocw/
F. 交大開放課程
http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/
 4.  Assignments
A. Please register an account on edX and choose a course of your interest.
B. Have you heard about opencourseware before? or have you visited any of the opencourseware before? How do  you like it? Found anything useful or interesting to you? How could this help your learning. Please comments on it.