About OpenCourseWare
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OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. OpenCourseWare represents a major open access effort and is supported by educational institutions such as MIT, Harvard Law School, Utah State University, as well as Novell, Inc.
Novell OpenCourseWare is a library of educational materials developed by Novell Global Training Services for authorized courses and other customer training purposes. By making these materials available to the public, we hope to extend to all people worldwide the opportunity to access these high quality learning materials.
Novell OpenCourseWare Licensing
Novell OpenCourseWare is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0. For more information this licensing model ("Terms of Use"} and our privacy policy, see the following:
About eduCommons and Novell OpenCourseWare
eduCommons is server software designed to provide last-mile support for open access initiatives like Novell OpenCourseWare or MIT OpenCourseWare. While Novell already offers customers access to some educational materials (such as product documentation and free online training) through our www.novell.com Web site, we have partnered with eduCommons team to help us provide quality training materials developed by Novell Global Training Services to the worldwide public.
By utilizing eduCommons software, we are better able to develop and manage our OpenCourseWare library through a workflow process that steps through uploading materials into our OpenCourseWare repository, the copyright clearance process, reassembly of materials into courses, a quality assurance process, and final publication of the materials.
By partnering with the eduCommons team, we share the same goals of
- Providing free, searchable, access to course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
- Catalyzing the growth of communities of learners.
- Extending the reach and impact of the "opencourseware" concept.
eduCommons is open source software that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms and is powered by Python, Zope, and Plone.
Appreciation
eduCommons would not be possible without:
- Generous funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Generous support from MIT OpenCourseWare including sharing their process documentation which has contributed significantly to the success of eduCommons.
