MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT.
MIT OCW's goals are to:
- Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
- Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.
MIT OCW would not be possible without the support and generosity of the MIT faculty who choose to share their research, pedagogy, and knowledge to benefit others. We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2007. Between now and then, we will publish the materials from virtually all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses.
We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of MIT OCW over the course of the next five years. With 1,250 courses published as of December 2005, we are still in a learning stage of this MIT initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback, as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible for our users.
About OOPS
OOPS是Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System，我們的中文名稱叫做開放式課程計畫。簡單的說，這是在奇幻基金會（www.fantasy.org.tw）之下執行的一個計畫。我們希望能夠用開放原始碼的理想、精神、社群和技術來挑戰開放知識分享的這個新理念，讓更多的人可以分享到知識。
本計畫同時擁有世界各翻譯計畫的入口網站：www.myoops.org和繁體中文版www.twocw.net，簡體中文版www.cocw.net的翻譯網站。
目前採用中英對照方式架設網站。任何網友發現有翻譯錯誤或是疏漏之處，都可以直接來信指正，我們會立即修改，我們希望透過讀者的參與和編輯，將網站的正確度更為提升。對於英文閱讀沒問題的使用者來說，我們提供的是一個中文介面、連線速度較快的平台。對於只能用中文閱讀的讀者來說，我們提供的是通往新知識的另一扇大門。未來將引進WIKI系統，讓所有的參與者可以直接在線上進行修正與校稿，經過審定者的通過之後，就可以即時作出更改，更為提高參與性。