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How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories | OEDb

How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories Published on Thursday 1st of March, 2007 How would you like to study at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for free? It has been nearly six years since MIT first announced their MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. More recently, MIT announced that the OCW program, a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world, is online and will be completed by 2008 . The OCW provides open access to course materials for up to 1,550 MIT courses , representing 34 departments and all five MIT schools. The goal is to include materials from all MIT courses by next year. MIT provides just one of the 10 open source educational success stories detailed below. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges , organizations , instructors , and prospective students use software , operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most case

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