How to Find an Open Courseware Class for Anything?
Posted on September 4th, 2009 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
If you want to expand your knowledge at a specific field of learning, especially, at topics of higher learning, you can have online universities, a better method to learn program and courses from there. However, these online courses are generally paid and requires handsome amount of money. In case, you don’t have enough money to pursue those courses, you can learn them from a number of Universities, those, offer courses absolutely free of cost.
These universities offer free courses under Open Courseware (OCW) program that is a free and open digital publication of high quality university-level education materials consisting of syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and examination. However, OCW does not provide any degree, certificate or any access to course instructor and the educational literature is provided free under open license program for the equal use of educators as well as around the corner. Following are some of the noted institutions where one can have open courseware for anything or subject.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)
MIT is one of the best facilitator of ware programs; it offers nearly 1800 open ware courses including subjects like architecture and planning, engineering, health science and technology, humanities, arts and social sciences, management and science. The Open Ware Program is completely free and does not require any registration. One can download the program as soon as one gets to the web page for the specific course or subject.
The Open University of London
The Open University of London is one of the most prestigious educational institutes in the United Kingdom and has state-of-the art online open course ware. It offers variety of courses and materials to study with. Registration to the course wares provided by it is absolutely free and is supported by number of learning tools. The university provides courses in streams, Mathematics and Statistics, Modern Languages, arts and history, business and management, education, health and lifestyle, IT and computing, Law, Science and Nature and on.
Carnegie Mellon University
The open courses at the Carnegie Mellon University are known to be Open Learning Initiative. With its intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations it offers course on subjects like biology, chemistry, engineering, logic and proofs, visual communication design and on.
Tufts University
Similar to MIT, Tufts University runs its own Open Ware Program that is dynamic in its courseware. It offers courses in fields like dental medicine, medicine, nutrition, science and arts. Open Ware Program provided by Tufts is completely free without any registration, though it does not provide any certification, diploma or degree.