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Although a truly Open Global Education Network (OGEN) is not yet a reality, it is useful in clarifying aims and objectives to consider what exists of its beginnings in the present and what the future could or should bring. At present, the 'Open Global Education' part of OGEN is mainly represented by Open Courseware (OCW) and, no doubt, this is a good foundation. Certainly, the popularity of today's OCW, in spite of its shortcomings, points to a huge global demand for inexpensive Higher Education by many people with different needs, expectations and backgrounds. Other desirable parts of the educational process such as expert tuition, interaction among students or learning assessment are not nearly so well supported by any sort of infrastructure that could be called open, or free of the usual geographical and political constraints imposed by current systems of Higher Education.

The 'Network' part seems the weakest bit of OGEN at the present time. Nodes, such as university OCW websites, often hyperlink from their courseware to other nodes (websites) but usually only to

Professor Knowmore, podium under his arm, strode purposefully into the reception area of the new Networked Education Complex (NEC). Well it wasn't really all that new. The foundations had been laid some time ago but it was still under construction with a multitude of new rooms to explore and humming with diverse and ever-changing educational activities. The Professor fired a few well-chosen technical terms at the receptionist, Miss Oogle. She thought for a moment and began to

This table provides a quick search of the Open Courseware Directory - go to the square corresponding to the intersection of a main subject row with the required 'media type' column - Click on 'ALL' inside a square to find items at all academic levels; otherwise click on:

1. for 'introductory' (university first year undergraduate level - or equivalent)

2. for 'intermediate' (university undergraduate level but excluding first year - or equivalent)
3. for 'advanced' (university graduate level - or equivalent)

Example: To find OCW items containing exam material (sample exams, old papers etc) in introductory Social Sciences go to the bottom right hand corner and click on '1'.

Clicking on one of the Main Subject Areas in the left column will give all OCW items for that subject area.

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• What is Open Courseware (OCW)?

  "Courseware" implies any type of "knowledge product" associated with the delivery of a lecture course or program of study. Digitised material such as lecture notes, handouts, slides, tutorial material, exam questions, quizzes, videos and demonstrations are all typical examples. "Open Courseware" is courseware that has been made publicly available, free of charge, by the author to any user with web access anywhere in the world. To find out more about OCW take a look at some of the websites in this section of our Open Course Directory.

• As a self-learner, can I use Open Courseware to construct my own program of study?

  Yes of course you can but