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from the very first days of your life you start to learn about the world
you powerful drive to learn is based on your need to make sense of the world
it enables you to get a grip on what happens around you
learning and education allow you to build on other people's discoveries
clearing the path for a better future
at least, that's the idea. truth is, you spend years learning just the basics
once you've mastered those there appear to be billions of options
you want to become a writer? or an artist? study chemical engineering or ancient history?
what university will you attend? and even if you do know what you want
are you sure you can afford to pay for it? good thing there's OpenCourseWare!
using its powerful search engines
you can find more than 20,000 courses for free
OpenCourseWare enables you to explore top-notch learning materials
by the world's most respected universities and
to pick the ones that suit you best wether you need some
introductory lessons to get you started or searching for specific knowledge
OpenCourseWare 's learning materials will fill the gaps and help to make
connections between topics
at your own place as it is a worldwide online platform
you can even go wherever you want and still be up to date with your local university
or stay at home and learn from foreign education
whenever wherever you want and unlike text books
OpenCourseWare allows you and your teachers to share existing courses
easily and legally and even adapt and remix them
or get engaged in collaborative learning with over a 125 million other users
from around the world more than 300 institutions provide quality
checked contents to the
OpenCourseWare consortium making it a global ecosystem of education
that makes the grade. it enables you to keep on learning under any circumstance
for the rest of your life! OpenCourseWare can help you master your studies
and satisfy your own natural desire to learn about the world around you
and if you think that OpenCourseWare is merely the
online version of your old textbook: think again! you can watch lectures,
download slides, and test your knowledge with the materials and tools available online
what are you waiting for?
get engaged! start learning! visit ocwconsortium.org to get started