Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

10/06/05

Open Courseware in China - OOPS

Filed under: Chinese e-Learning Industry, China News, Open Source, Open Source Community — timwang @ 02:53:18 am

OOPS stands for "Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System". This is a huge "Course Translation" project. Open Courseware is not a strange term for Chinese. The China Open Resources for Education (CORE) who has been looking into MIT's Open Courseware for a while. Recently, a large consortium funded by a Taiwanese creative foundation (fantacy.org.tw) has initiated a project which will translate many foreign open coursewares such as MIT's Open Courseware and courses from public health department of Johns Hopkins University into Chinese. This will allow many Chinese academics to be exposed to the first class learning content around the world. This organization now has over 1500 Chinese volunteers to do the translation, publication and web development. This will be the world largest course translation project. There are currently 55 courses completed translation, 305 courses partially online, 920 courses in progress. Over 6000-8000 learners browse the web site each day which sums up to over 120 thousands visitors per month.
Simplified Chinese version (mainland Chinese, Singapore):

www.cocw.net</code>
Traditional Chinese Version (Taiwan region and HK): www.twocw.net</code>

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Comment from: charles cheng [Visitor] · http://www.efudan.com/el
Hi Tim, I am so impressed by your blog. I am been in the Chinese e-Learning market for 5 years. I set up my own company as of 2000. I am very interested in your ideas and hope we can share more. Please write back to me to the email address I left.

Thanks,

Charles
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