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OpenCourseWare Update
[The OCW communications manager explains the process for faculty participation.]
Over the last six months, representatives of MIT OpenCourseWare have met with a wide array of audiences on campus, explaining why the Institute has chosen to undertake this ambitious initiative, what the goals of the project are, and, most importantly, what it means for MIT's faculty.
A key principle that the staff of MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is sure to mention to all of these audiences is that we know that, to encourage voluntary MIT faculty participation, we must make it easy for faculty to contribute their course materials without extra burden, and ensure that there is clear benefit for faculty in return.
With MIT OCW committed to publishing 500 subjects in September (including the 50 already online at http://ocw.mit.edu/), the bar is set high. As of March 10, we were working with almost 400 MIT faculty on our September 2003 publication – but we still have a ways to go.
If you are interested in joining your faculty colleagues and would like to publish your subject with MIT OCW in September, we are asking that subjects meet the following basic requirements:
If your subject meets these basic requirements, you will be assigned an MIT OCW Faculty Liaison who will lead a team that includes production, metadata, and intellectual property specialists. MIT OCW will consult with you on site design, will coordinate content collection and conversion (including scanning, transcription and, in some cases, typesetting), will provide graphic support, and will then input that content into the MIT OCW content management system in preparation for Web publication. Just as importantly, the MIT OCW team will work with you to establish copyright ownership of every learning object embedded in your lecture notes, problem sets, etc. MIT OCW will then obtain publication clearance, or work with you to find another way to represent that particular concept, graphic, or image in the final MIT OCW Website.
Participation would require two meetings between you and your MIT OCW faculty liaison. Here's the actual schedule.
The hope of MIT OCW and the Provost's Office is that in the very near future, publication of electronic course materials should be a natural byproduct of your normal course development and teaching process. However, in this beginning phase of MIT OCW, we are focused on reducing any extra burden and making the process as seamless and easy as possible for you to participate.
Once a subject has been published at http://ocw.mit.edu, you will have a digital and accessible archive of teaching materials from past semesters, ensuring those materials will not get lost in overstuffed filing cabinets or misplaced in cluttered C drives on faculty computers. MIT's DSpace will serve as MIT OCW's digital archive.
If you choose to participate in the September 2003 publish, you will receive a modest scholarly allowance of $3,000 per subject, to be used at your discretion.
If you are ready to participate in MIT OCW, please contact me, the MIT OCW Communications Manager, as soon as possible at jpotts@mit.edu or 2-3621.
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