Open Asset Award Winners
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Open assets are what open education initiatives produce and use, tangible goods (usually digital) with educational purpose and value. Open assets are produced, curated, and distributed in ways that make them freely accessible, usable, and improvable by others.
Best OER
High-quality innovative teaching and learning materials openly available online for everyone to use, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.
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Universidad de Alicante OpenCourseWare – 2011
The Universitat d’Alacant began publishing OpenCourseWare in 2007 and was one of the first universities in Spain and Latin America to do so. In 2011, OpenCourseWare Consortium named the Universitat d’Alacant the first “Reference Site” for the number of courses offered, the variety of languages, and the relevance of course content. (Landmark)
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
University of Sumatera Utara OpenCourseWare – 2011
The University of Sumatera Utara OpenCourseWare offers 177 courses in twelve disciplines and twenty textbooks. Content is elegantly designed and offered in both English and Indonesian for use by teachers and learners worldwide.
University of Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
National Chiao Tung University – 2012
Launched in June 2007, National Chiao Tung University’s (NCTU) OpenCourseWare site was the world’s first OCW site in Chinese run by an OCW Consortium University member. NCTU OCW established 114 courses, including 92 full-video courses. In 2011, NCTU OCW had 250,000 unique users with 3 million visits. Its video courses accumulated more than 200M views/downloads in two years. (Landmark)
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Virtual University of Pakistan – 2012
The Virtual University of Pakistan (VU) has published 138 undergraduate and graduate courses and more than 6,000 hours of studio-quality video lectures. Students and faculty at the University of Pakistan and other universities have made good use of the courses. VU has elegantly structured each course with video lectures, assignments, and course notes provided along with detailed semester schedules and other resources.
Virtual University of Pakistan, Pakistan
The University of Notre Dame – 2013
The University of Notre Dame was one of the founding members of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and launched their OCW site in 2006. The site currently has more than 50 courses in 24 subject areas, and in 2012 the site received visits from 300,000 individuals in 211 countries and territories around the world. (Landmark)
University of Notre Dame, United States
https://online.nd.edu/what-we-do/
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya OCW – 2013
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) OCW platform provides more than 200 UPC courses and is integrated with the university’s information systems. These information systems support a variety of management processes; provide information about users and site work; and provide information on the books of the recommended bibliography through the l