Open Courseware: A New Paradigm in E-learning
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Date
2006-11-09
Authors
Deoghuria, Swapan
Roy, Satyabrata
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
History has proved that education and discovery are best advanced when knowledge is
shared openly. Open Courseware (OCW) is a part of a comparatively new educational
movement in the line of Open access and also an opportunity in the field of distance/elearning
that leading institutions and universities around the world can capitalize for the
betterment of the society. Great Universities and institutions constantly expand their
reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community’s
most critical needs. Already world famous institutes like Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), all Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science
(IISc) are working along this way that will automatically inspire other institutions to
openly share their course materials for open dissemination of knowledge and information
that can open new doors to the benefits of education for humanity around the
world. India is a vast country with different culture and languages. In this paper we
studied different aspects of OCW and its impact on total learning process.
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Open Access, E-Learning, Distance Learning, Open Courseware