This is just a gentle reminder to everyone interested in open access materials, and in some fashion in open access education, that there is now an easy way to search the expanding offerings: Open Courseware Search. As the site itself notes, the following offerings are searched:
- School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (institution:jhsph)
- MIT (institution:mit)
- Notre Dame (institution:nd)
- The Open University UK (institution: openuniversity)
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (institution:politecnicamadrid), Spanish courses
- Stanford Engineering Everywhere (institution:stanford)
- Delft University of Technology (institution:tudelft), English and Dutch courses
- UMass Boston (institution:umass)
- The University of Tokyo (institution:utokyo), both English and Japanese OCW collections
- Yale University (institution:yale)
My own university is, I think, moving to a more open model for its course content offerings. I see this as a real opportunity to make available content I have developed to a wider audience. I think the real value of a campus environment is not exclusivity of content but the potential for interaction.
