Joins Dow Chemical and Lockheed Martin in OCW Next Decade Alliance to support global educational opportunity CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 2, 2012 — MathWorks has joined Dow Chemical and Lockheed Martin as founding members of MIT OpenCourseWare’s Next Decade Alliance. Next Decade Alliance sponsors make significant multi-year commitments supporting MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), MIT’s effort to share […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier this year, the Saylor Foundation (http://www.saylor.org) released four openly licensed, college-level textbooks as part of its ongoing Open Textbook Challenge (OTC), an initiative that offers $20,000 to college textbook authors to license his or her work under a CC BY 3.0 license. Now in its second wave of funding, the Challenge […]

Collaboration among open education innovators creates rich learning opportunities for independent learners CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 29, 2012 – MIT OpenCourseWare and textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge have teamed up to provide free, high-quality textbooks to learners accessing OCW’s innovative OCW Scholar courses. This is among the first collaborations between an OpenCourseWare publisher and an open […]

6.01SC is the fourth of seven courses OCW will publish this spring specifically to meet the needs of independent learners. CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 25, 2012 — MIT OpenCourseWare has released a new version of Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I in the innovative OCW Scholar format designed for independent learners. Coordinated by Professor […]

Author: David M. Lascu, Project Manager at Anne Arundel Community College Virtual Campus Approximately 60 percent of first-year college students are required to take at least one developmental course (mathematics, reading and writing), yet less than 25 percent of community college students who are enrolled in these developmental courses earn a certificate or degree within […]