A look at open-course offerings

By ELEANOR CHUTE
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Monday, November 19, 2007

A selection of open-courseware offerings

ocw.mit.edu -- MIT OpenCourseWare offers about 1,800 courses, some with audio and video.

apple.com/education/itunesu -- iTunes U offers audio and video lectures from more than two-dozen institutions at its iTunes store.

cmu.edu/oli -- Carnegie Mellon University offers about 10 courses designed specifically to provide not only materials but also computerized instruction.

ocw.tufts.edu -- Tufts University offers more than 30 courses in areas as different as agriculture and dentistry.

ocw.nd.edu -- Materials from the University of Notre Dame are generally in the humanities and social sciences, from women in Islamic society to ancient wisdom and modern love.

ocw.jhsph.edu -- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health provides materials from some of its most popular courses, ranging from global health to nutrition.

youtube.com/ucberkeley -- In addition to materials available on iTunes U, the University of California-Berkeley has posted videos of lectures of eight courses and plans to add others to YouTube.

uocwa.org/ -- Utah Open Courseware Alliance lists free offerings from seven universities: College of Eastern Utah, Dixie State College, University of Utah, Utah State University, Utah Valley State College, Webster State College and Western Governors University.

www.ocwconsortium.org -- The Open Courseware Consortium has links to course materials at its participating universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.

www.open.ac.uk/openlearn -- The Open University of the United Kingdom offers modules of some courses free through OpenLearn. By April, 5,400 hours of materials are expected to be available.