We need to stop thinking about online courseware as a replacement for a college degree.
Free open courseware can meet real business needs and make an impact, without replacing the current degree.
At the same time, CORE aims to share advanced Chinese courseware and other quality resources with universities around the world.
However, there is a tendency to think about open courseware as a rip-and-replace response to the traditional university experience.
With recorded lectures and interactive courseware, classrooms can be reserved for personal interaction and exercises, and thus scheduled more efficiently.
Finally, there are startups like Blackboard.com and Kiko (Knowledge In, Knowledge Out) that dabble with both ad-supported free content and for-profit courseware.
This high level of support has been especially important to our faculty who want to incorporate technology-based activities, courseware and e-texts into the classroom.
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Thousands of lifelong learners are already taking to free course materials being offered on the web, course at MIT Open Courseware or Open Yale.
Leonar3Do also unveiled the first online 3D app store for distributing content that will assist and inspire teachers, who are constantly struggling in how to create new content or courseware.
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CORE's objective is to introduce advanced courseware from MIT and other top-ranked universities from around the world, by using the latest information technology, teaching methodologies, instructional content and other resources to enhance the quality of higher education within China.
The firm, entitled HelpMeSee, has two missions: to provide direct funding to surgeons in the developing world for low-cost lens replacement surgeries performed on cataract blind adults and children, and to train 30 thousand cataract specialists in the developing world a low-cost, cost effective surgery using virtual reality simulators and courseware adapted from aviation training.
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