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An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. More than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world are creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. This will advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

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Fahamu OpenCourseWare >> Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential.

The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world. USQ OCW does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty members.

China Open Resource for Education >> China Open Resource for Education--- is a non-profit organization. Her mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.

Japan OpenCourseWare >> Welcome to the Japan Opencourseware Consortium(JOCW) Official Site. JOCW is the consortium of Japanese Universities which have been providing OCW in JAPAN. OCW is an open and a free publication of formal course materials of universities on the Internet.

Korea University OpenCourseWare >> Educational boundaries between disciplines and traditional major areas of study are merging to meet the multidisciplinary and multicultural needs of life in a global society. And global information networks are gradually tearing down technological boundaries that once separated the rich nations from the poor. Dramatic changes in the educational landscape are spurring greater cooperation and competition among universities than ever before, to the ultimate benefit of students and scholars everywhere.

Tecnologico de Monterrey >> En Open CourseWare Tecnológico de Monterrey buscamos que los beneficios que aportan el conocimiento y las tecnologías de la información estén al alcance de todos, es por ello que te ofrecemos en forma gratuita materiales educativos de alta calidad para poder contribuir, en conjunto contigo, en la formación de mejores personas y sociedades.

Open Universiteit Nederland >> Open Universiteit Nederland which welcomed its first students in September 1984, is an independent government-funded institute for distance learning at university level. The Dutch government's purpose in founding Open Universiteit Nederland was to make higher education accessible to anyone with the necessary aptitudes and interests, regardless of formal qualifications.

TU Delft OpenCourseWare >> Delft University of Technology is the largest and most comprehensive university of engineering sciences in the Netherlands. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality.

National Chiao Tung University >> NCTU is committed to academic research, talent cultivation, and social service. We also actively promote international academic exchange to come into contact with worldwide higher education.

HippoCampus >> HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare >> The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.

MIT Open Courseware >> MIT is committed to advancing education and discovery through knowledge open to everyone. OCW shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1800 courses spanning MIT's entire curriculum.

Notre Dame OpenCourseWare >> Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

Open Yale Courses >> Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education. Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used.

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University of California at Irvine >> The University of California, Irvine has a long history of social engagement. As a leading public research University, an important part of its mission is to showcase and disseminate the research and scholarship of the University to the public.

The collection of course published here are just a beginning. More UMass Boston faculty will be contributing their materials to this OCW so next time you check back you’ll find more course materials.

Sofia Open Content Initiative >> Content for eight courses is now available online for free through the Sofia open content initiative, thanks to the joint contributions of faculty, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and can now be accessed at the Course Gallery.

The Open University >> The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning.

Tufts OpenCourseWare >> Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' initial course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

The Utah OCW Alliance does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty, but does give you open access to the materials used in a variety of courses.

Utah State OpenCourseWare >> We believe that all humans beings are endowed with a capacity to learn, improve, and progress. Educational opportunity is the mechanism by which we fulfill that capacity. Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.

Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Tranining OpenCourseWare >> Welcome to the OpenCourseWare and e-Learning community site of Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Tranining. We are pleased to announce that we are now a member of OCW Consortium.

FETP OpenCourseWare >> Inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Initiative (OCW), the Fulbright School has begun to publish its teaching and research materials online. FETP OpenCourseWare is not a long distance learning project, rather it is a resource for people working or studying in policy-related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculum development.

Energy + Environment OCW freely distributes course modules on various energy and environment subjects that can be used on a stand-alone basis or integrated into larger courses. Our materials are prepared under the supervision of faculty at leading universities throughout the world.

Free-ed.net >>Unless very clearly stated otherwise, there are no sign-ups for classes at Free-Ed.Net. Simply find the course you want, and go to work on it. Work at your own pace and set your own standards of achievement.

i-Tunes U >> If you have i-Tunes downloaded onto your computer (you can do the software for free here) you can get access to free courseware from many first class educational institutions. I-Tunes has course material from about two dozen colleges and universities, including MIT, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Duke and others. Not everything there is courseware (it also often has announcements from the alumni offices, the athletic departments, or other non-academic functions within an institution), but you may be able to find what you want if you are determined (it's organized by institution, not subject area; and then within each institution it is often by department or discipline).

Ludwig von Mises Institute >> While not classified as OpenCourseWare, this site definately is the place to get yourself an education in free market/Austrian economics.

Novell OpenCourseWare >> Novell OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational materials developed by Novell Training Services for authorized courses and other customer training purposes. By making these materials available to the public, we hope to extend to all people worldwide the opportunity to access these high quality learning materials.

Education Portal >> Universities With the Best Free Online Courses. No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.

iBerry >> OpenCourseWare Directory and Higher Education Resources.

Lectures Archive >> This site catalogues video and audio lectures on academic topics according to discipline, theoretician and topic.

OER Commons >> OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.

Open-Of-Course >> Open-Of-Course is a multilingual community portal for free online courses and tutorials. By "free" we not only mean free as in "free beer" but also published as open content. The focus is on educational information where people can benefit of in daily life.

Open Courseware Consortium >> An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Open Courseware Finder >> This site lets you interactively browse or search OpenCourseWare materials from several schools.

UNU OpenCourseWare >> The United Nations University formally joined the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Consortium on 24 May 2006 and is committed to the development of an OCW website that showcases the training and educational programmes implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations.