Category:OpenCourseWare

**OpenCourseWare**
	university courses published for free online
	Upload media
	Wikipedia
Instance of	open science; database;
Creator	Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Inception	April 2001;
Authority file
	Q1258268;
	Reasonator; Scholia; PetScan; statistics; WikiMap; Locator tool; KML file; Search depicted;

English: OpenCourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials in a virtual learning environment created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet. Already in 1999 the University of Tübingen in Germany published videos of lectures online in the context of its timms initiative. The OCW movement only took off, however, with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare at MIT in October 2002. Since then, a number of universities have created OCW projects, some of which have been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.