During the past decade, online collaborative technologies combined with a shift in educational practices toward sharing educational contents, have created global educational opportunities never witnessed before in the history of human civilization. These opportunities have supported a change in dispositions to share among renowned institutions and established educational scholars.
Already in 2002, researchers from the National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) went to study the MIT OpenCourseWare project, and this led to an OpenCourseWare pilot plan with 50 courses at Tokyo Institute of Technology in September (Kobayashi and Kawafuchi 2006).
Foundation of Fantasy Culture and Arts, established in 2001 as a non-profit organization by Lucifer Hsueh-Heng CHU, aims to encourage innovation and open knowledge. He donate most of his royalties get from the Chinese translation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy into Fantasy Foundation. (He also translated several Star Wars novels into Chinese.)
This site invites volunteers to help transcribe many available Open Educational Resources (OER) video lectures into English. The OERs included in this site are from MIT OCW and many other institutions. You don't need to be able to speak Chinese to help. Everyone who can understand and type English is encouraged to participate.
Due to the implement of techonology in education, it becomes increaingly convenient no matter for pupils, teenagers and adults. Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System(OOPS:http://www.myoops.org/main.php), is a platform which provides open courses of world top universities like MIT, Yale University, Harvard University, Cambridge, Princeton University etc.. And there are some other websites in China provides the open course for free likehttp://open.163.com/. And all the courses vary from linguistics to biology and from music to literature.
One would not expect fruitfulness and redeeming societal contributions from a person named “Lucifer.” Yet that is just what you will get from Lucifer Chu (朱學恒), Taiwan's most celebrated fantasy-loving gamer and self-made...
NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware.
With the Internet, universal access to education is possible, but its potential is hindered by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. We at Creative Commons work to minimize these barriers, by providing free licenses and tools that anyone can use to share their educational materials with the world. Our licenses make textbooks, courses, and lesson plans easy to find, easy to share, and easy to customize and combine — helping to realize the full benefits of digital and print educational resources.
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