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MIT faculty share a passion for teaching and contributing to their field of study. The MIT OpenCourseWare staff strives to support the MIT faculty in their work by:
- Helping faculty put their course materials online for teaching
- Providing a vehicle for faculty to share their ideas and contribute to their discipline
Generally, MIT's faculty are already over-committed with teaching and research obligations, and they have concerns about any additional burden that publishing their materials to the MIT OCW Web site might place on them. In addition, open publication of course materials on the Internet (or in any medium) introduces considerations beyond what is involved in preparing materials for classroom use. Chief among them are "contextualization" (scrubbing out irrelevant data such as class meeting location, and adding context that sets the course within the larger curriculum), addition of metadata (to support online search and other functions), and copyright clearance.
In order to make is as easy for faculty to participate as is possible, MIT OCW does all the work. In most cases, faculty participation requires as little as two meetings and a few emails back and forth as the MIT OCW staff provides the following services:
- Content collection and conversion
- IP clearance
- Graphic design
- Citation research
Read more about our publication process.
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"My initial concerns about OCW were largely related to the limited time available to devote to the preparation of the 13.022 class notes and the associated material. The help I received from the OCW team, the overwhelmingly positive feedback on the 13.022 site, and the overall success of the OCW Pilot Project helped dissipate these concerns very quickly.
- Professor Paul Sclavounos, MIT Department of Ocean Engineering and faculty author of Course 13.022: Surface Waves and their Interaction With Floating Bodies
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