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Free Education with OpenCourseWare Program

Education will no longer be deprived and will be freely shared to any one on the web. Open Education –as defined by Wikipedia; a collective term that refers to forms of education in which knowledge, ideas or important aspects of teaching methodology or infrastructure are shared freely over the internet. Such education requires minimal requirements, an internet connection and basic knowledge about downloading programs and unzipping files. A current example is the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. It emerged trough a conference held on September 14 and 15, 2007 with the goal of promoting open resources and techniques concerning education.

Such principle closed the boundary of having educated without spending too much. Many universities has adopted the concept and been trying to upload education materials such as videos, audio files and other shared resources. These allowed almost anyone to study at their dream university without stepping on the campus. The Open Yale courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers at Yale University. With courses ranging from Astronomy department down to Religious studies, distance education students can browse through each courses provided with online materials, like video streams, html transcripts and mp3.

Another is the MITOpenCourseware by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Open education is made possible through OCW (Open Course Ware) and being utilized as an open virtual publication very available to the world. MIT OCW offers about 1,900 online courses and has dominated the high school department providing fun to know courses like; building a stereo and guitars as well as help for students taking AP math and science courses. A lot more universities are adopting the Open Course Ware program such as; university of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, the iTunes University, Berkeley, Duke, and Stanford University.

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