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What is OCW Consortium

Chapter 32
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
The Open Courseware Consortium is a collaboration of more than 150 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.
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The Case for Open Education Resources Distance and Distributed Education to Support the Growing Knowledge Economy in India
M. S. Vijay Kumar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch032
Abstract
In the new developing economies interest in distance education and in particular, in online distance education, is increasing. (Daniels, J, West P. 2006). In India, this trend is evident in the proliferation of foreign and domestic institutions, public and private, becoming the new “providers” of online digitally delivered education. This proliferation should not be surprising given that India is a country rushing to develop educated human resources to meet the needs of a rapidly growing economy in every sector. Broad access to high quality education is a high priority to meet the needs of a knowledge-driven society.
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