OpenCourseWare Consortium Advances Education and Empowers People Worldwide Through Open Courses

On September 27, 2009, in Resources, submitted by Christopher Fisher, PhD

BMED Report previously featured a free learning website in Academic Earth Offers Free Video Lectures From Prestigious Universities and Scholars. Today, your attention is called to the Open Courseware Consortium (OCC). The OCC is made up of 200 participating educational institutions that span more than 30 countries who offer free online educational courses. The catch with open education? You benefit from the knowledge, but do not earn course credit or a formal degree.

The Open Courseware Consortium describe themselves as:

“An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.”

OCC members from the United States include such great institutions as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Michigan, and University of Notre Dame. I found courses at various universities on a diverse range of topics like medicine, psychology, food safety, horse management, disaster preparedness, and physics. UC Berkley features psychology courses in General Psychology, Psychology of Dreams, and Clinical Psychology, and the University of Michigan offer courses from their medical school.

It is apparent that humans have entered a new era of education where anyone with the time and patience and an internet connection can learn about anything they desire – for free.

Visit the OpenCourseWare Consortium here.
Visit OpenCourseWare Consortium Participating Institutions here.

Enjoy.

CFisher

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Christopher Fisher, PhD

Dr. Christopher Fisher, Managing Editor for The Behavioral Medicine Report, received his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine with an emphasis in biopsychosocial approaches to health and wellness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), neurofeedback, biofeedback, cranial electrical stimulation (CES), and QEEG from University of North Texas. He is Board Certified in Neurofeedback (BCIA). Dr. Fisher also received a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Dr. Fisher maintains a private practice in Corpus Christi, Texas, and offers individual therapy, group therapy, and neurofeedback. You can learn more here: http://www.christopherfisherphd.com Dr. Fisher enjoys spending time with family, watching sports and movies, and bicycling on rugged terrain.

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