The document discusses OpenCourseWare (OCW), which provides free access to educational course materials from universities. It notes that MIT started the OCW initiative in 2001. An OCW contains learning materials from courses but does not grant degrees or involve direct student/teacher interaction. There are now over 170 OCW sites and 13,000 courses available. The document also discusses using standards like Dublin Core for metadata and OAI-PMH for harvesting metadata to improve discoverability and reuse of OCW course materials across different repositories and institutions.

1. OpenCourseWare and Standards Ir. Willem van Valkenburg

7. • ~170 live OCW sites • ~13.000 courses http://ocwconsortium.org Advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

8. Grow in the number of courses

10. Users of OCW Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/

11. Usage of OCW Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/site-statistics/ USE SCENARIO % OF USE Educators Improve personal knowledge 31% Learn new teaching methods 23% Incorporate OCW materials into a course 20% Find reference material for my students 15% Develop curriculum for my department or school 8% Students Enhance personal knowledge 46% Complement a current course 34% Plan a course of study 16% Self Learners Explore areas outside my professional field 40% Review basic concepts in my professional field 18% Prepare for future course of study 18% Keep current with developments in my field 17% Complete a work-related project or task 4%

12. Goals How can we improve the discoverability and reuse, of OCW courses? — OCW Consortium Technology Committee 2006-2007 Source: http://www.slideshare.net/bmuramatsu/oer-search

17. OCW .tudelft.nl Willem van Valkenburg [email_address] www.e-learn.nl twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg