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Offene Kursmaterialien (OCW) sind ein bestimmtes Modell für OER, das durch das MIT und das OpenCourseWare Consortium bekannt wurde. Die Lernmaterialien werden nach dem Muster eines traditionellen Kurses für eingeschriebene Studierende einer Universität angeboten. OCW können als vollständige Kurse bzw. Lerneinheiten direkt für das Curriculum einer Lehrveranstaltung eingesetzt werden.

Von Ingo Blees, Nadia Cohen, Tamara Massar, Doris Hirschmann, Matthias Höhler, Renate Martini, Renate Tilgner im Buch Freie Bildungsmedien (OER) (2013)

Bemerkungen

In a traditional campus setting, for example, few faculty members see their colleagues’ syllabi, much less their teaching materials. Thanks to the OCW initiative, faculty members from different schools at MIT are realizing the overlap in the topics they cover. By just reviewing the OCW content from their desktops, they can see how someone in a different discipline approaches the same material. This capability makes for a richer experience for students and professors and is generating new, crossdepartmental collaborations.

Von Sally M. Johnstone im Journal Educause Quarterly 3/05 (2005) im Text Open Educational Resources Serve the World

While the project is grand in scale (1900 courses worth of materials have been published to date) and an inspiration to institutions and universities around the world, its exorbitant costs – $4,000,000 per year – make it a model that no other school can afford to emulate. Hundreds of other schools have begun down the OCW path, publishing a few dozen courses. Indeed, in the current economic climate we are forced to wonder about the sustainability of a $4,000,000 program that creates no revenue for the university and is targeted primarily at off-campus users.

Von David A. Wiley, John Hilton III in der Zeitschrift International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (2009) im Text Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education auf Seite 10

The MIT OpenCourseWare Project is noteworthy in its scale, completeness, quality, and positive influence on others. It is, however, basically a digital publishing model of high-quality, pre-credentialed, static material. The Connexions Project complements the MIT project in that it provides not only a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly material but also a set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate; instructors build rapidly and share custom courses; and learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. It focuses on building and supporting communities of digital object consumers and producers who credential material.

Von Daniel E. Atkins, J. S. Brown, Allen L. Hammond im Buch A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement (2007)

The goal of MIT OCW is to publish each and every course in the entire 1,800-course university catalogue in a fixed period of time, and to continually republish new versions of courses and archive older versions. The undertaking is massive, and so is the organization that supports it. MIT OCW employs at least 29 people in service of the opencourseware project. This includes eight core staff, five publication managers, four production team members, two intellectual property researchers, and ten department liaisons. The two intellectual property researchers manage rights issues for 6,000 pieces of third-party owned content each year (e.g., requesting the right to use the materials on the MIT OCW website). Department liaisons identify faculty to work with and manage those relationships on behalf of MIT OCW.

Von David A. Wiley im Text On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education (2006)