Friday, February 5, 2010

NJIT is Joining the Open Courseware Consortium (OCW)

The following announcement was made today by Joel Bloom, Vice President for Academic and Student Services and Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College , and Donald Sebastian, Senior Vice President for Research and Development and Interim Provost:

NJIT is joining MIT, Michigan State, UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan as members of the Open Course Consortium (OCW). The OCW is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions from around the world that make high quality educational materials available at no cost to faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. NJIT’s participation in the OCW enables us to add to the sharing of knowledge worldwide. OCW is often used to help complete projects in underdeveloped countries. All faculty who participate in OCW do so on a voluntary basis. NJIT already has educational materials from 30 NJIT courses which will be part of this effort.

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