About OpenCourseWare UA. OpenCourseWare UA

The OpenCourseWare concept

OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an international program of teaching electronic publication of the content of courses of universities created in 2001 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More than 200 universities and other institutions of higher education are concentrated in the OpenCourseWare Consortium. OpenCourseWare UA It is one of the partner universities and also one which they have more courses in the world Consortium, was created in 2007.

OCW UA aims to end not only the publication, but also free access and the generation of new content shared among teachers, so it integrates the assignment of a free license. It is not necessary that the course to publish is simultaneously providing its publication, but that in the same way, can publish courses already extinct or educational projects not already offered by changes in curricula.

Its objectives are:

1. To provide a free, easy and consistent access to teaching materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students and teaching oneself from all over the world.
2. Create a flexible movement based on an efficient model that other universities may emulate to publish their own pedagogical materials generating synergies and collaboration spaces.

How is a course on OpenCourseWare

Each course is a web site and its structure of publication includes the publication of the programme, objectives, methodology, bibliography, internet resources, notes, learning activities, practices, resolved, videos, audios, images, examinations already carried out exercises and more that grows every year. This structure is as open as you want the teacher, and his only condition is that the contents that appear are autoarchivados in the repository of the AU. All the contents are transferred with the free license that choose the teacher, although the most commonly used is CreativeCommons.

Contact and location

For more information about the program, you can contact us via OCW UAemail or by telephone (ext. 1226). We are integrated in forge (University Library), ground floor.

• Introduction to intellectual property (CreativeCommons licenses)

Presentation-tutorial on intellectual property in relation to educational and bibliographic content and CreativeCommons License usage.

• OpenCourseWare from the University of Alicante (new resources of the BUA)
  
  Presentation on project OpenCourseWare, electronic publication as open content educational projects and official subjects of the University of Alicante. Definition, function, progression, statistics...

• Open access and institutional repositories
  Presentation on institutional repositories. Definition and characteristics.
• RUA institutional repository of the University of Alicante
  Presentation on the repository of the University of Alicante. RUA gathers all kinds of digital materials, both preprints as postprints, communications to congresses, working papers, teaching materials, learning objects, journals published by the University of Alicante, etc.
• Standard 690 for citation
  Brief tutorial on the standard of citation: digital editions on paper and citations of sites and documents on the internet.