The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a major innovation called MIT Open Course Ware in 2001.
(MIT,2009). An Open Course Ware (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational
materials, organized as courses (OCW,2009).
Open courseware are freely accessible, internet provider, comprehensive, university course materials. Web
published course syllabus, reading lists with links to open access articles, course and lecture notes, video/audio
lectures and audio-synched slideshows, together with essay assignments, problem sets, past exam papers and fulltext
readings (Pollak, 2008).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the leader of this Project. There are 1900 lessons in their web site
http://ocw.mit.edu. All the lessons in this site are translated by the consortium constituted by the universities in China,
Portugal, Spain and South Africa. They continue preparing lessons translation into their languages.
Also a good deal of universities create this own materials and they publish them belong the open course ware
project. The Kyoto-U OpenCourseWare Project is designed not only in English but also in Japanese language. There
are 43 categories and 123 lessons in the web site. Yale University is one of them. There are 14 lessons in 11
category. The materials contain videos and audios. Learners can access the web site with the address take part in the
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