How Open CourseWare has liberated education

With this month marking the tenth anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare — in which MIT offers free access to things such as course syllabi, lecture notes, exams and so forth — the edu-tech blog Mindshift (part of the Argo news blog network that I belong to) has a list of ways it has “freed” education.

The main list:

CREATING THE MOLD
GOING GLOBAL
DEMOCRATIZING HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION
ALLOWING CUSTOMIZATION
ENCOURAGING SHARING
EMPOWERING EDUCATORS
PROVIDING VALUABLE CONTENT
ENABLING LIFELONG LEARNING
REINFORCING THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
DEMONSTRATING THE NEED FOR MORE

Click here to read the list in detail.

About the blogger

Alex Friedrich

afriedrich@mpr.org

Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.