The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has been named as a recipient of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). MIT OpenCourseWare is Massachusetts Institute of Technology's innovative effort to share the core academic content - including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams - from the entire MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The site currently includes materials from more than 2,000 MIT courses and has received over 68 million visits since OCW's launch in 2002.
The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education was designed to promote exceptional online materials that are available free of charge to science educators. The acronym SPORE refers to a reproductive element adapted to develop, often in less than ideal conditions, into something new. The winning projects are intended to be the seed of progress in education, even in the face of formidable challenges to educational innovation. Journal Science publishes an article about each winning project by the project's developer. The article about the OCW site, which is called 'MIT OpenCourseWare: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds', has been published in the July 30 issue of Science.
OCW materials are used by faculty, students and independent learners worldwide for a wide variety of purposes. Educators use the materials to improve courses and curricula at their schools; students supplement materials provided for their courses with the content from MIT; and independent learners study for pleasure or in the context of their professional activities.
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