Open Courseware (OCW) is a term used for core teaching materials used in graduate and undergraduate university classes made openly available online by universities at no cost. Open Courseware may include text-based documents, audio and video files, lecture notes, podcasts etc
Open Courseware is primarily a resource for Higher education students and faculty, or can be used for general interest. Learning with OCW is self-directed and unsupported and any assessments are usually self-graded.
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Rank 2016 | Provider | Nº Courses | Subjects | Course Type | Learning Pathways | Languages | Certificates | Credit | Overall Rating |
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1 | OpenLearn | 800+ | Arts & Humanities, Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences, Business & Finance, Languages, Education, Sport | Mostly Self-paced free courses | No | English | Statement of Participation | No | 4.00 |
2 | UC Irvine OpenCourseWare | 100+ | Arts, Biological Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Ecology, Social Sciences | Self-paced free courseware | Yes | English | No | In some cases (fees apply) | 3.81 |
3 | JHSPHOPENcourseware | 100+ | Public Health & Medical Sciences | Self-paced free open courseware | No | English, Chinese, Japanese | No | No | 3.69 |
4 | Gresham College | 1,500+ lectures | Art & Literature, Business, History, Law, Mathematics, Medical Science, Music, Politics, Religion, Science and Unusual | Self-paced free lectures | No | English | No | No | 3.63 |
5 | Open.Michigan | 200+ | Literature, Science, Health & Medicine, Arts, Engineering, Business | Self-paced free courseware | No | English | No | No | 3.50 |
6 | MIT OpenCourseWare | 2,000+ | Business, Energy, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health and Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Society, Teaching and Education | Free self-paced content | Curriculum guide | English, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Korean | No | No | 3.44 |
6 | The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) | 27 | Argument Diagramming, Sciences, Languages, Engineering Statics, Logic, Media Programming, Statistics, Speech | Free self-paced courses | No | English | No | No | 3.44 |
7 | Harvard@Home | 60+ | Arts, social sciences, history, current affairs, literature, science, mathematics | Self-paced free open courseware | No | English | No | No | 3.38 |
8 | Webcast.berkeley | 100+ | Webcasts on biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, history, health, political science, sociology and statistics. | Free self-paced webcasts | No | English | No | No | 3.25 |
9 | Open Yale Courses | 40+ | Humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences | Free self-paced courses | No | English | No | No | 3.13 |
10 | Tufts Open Courseware | 55+ | Health & Medicine, Arts & Sciences, Engineering, International Relations | Self-paced free courseware | No | English | No | No | 3.00 |
11 | Open Education Consortium | 30,000+ modules | Academic Support Services, Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Workforce development | Free self-paced content | No | Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish | No | No | 2.75 |
12 | UMass Boston Open Courseware | 50 | Sciences, Communications, Computer Science, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Mathematics, Education | Self-paced free courseware | No | English, Spanish | No | No | 2.50 |
13 | Utah State Open Courseware | 80 | Health & Medicine, Arts & Sciences, Engineering, International Relations | Self-paced free courseware | No | English | No | No | 2.44 |