Seminar 06P - Extending Your Reach: How OCW Can Help You Achieve Your Institutional Goals
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Terri Bays, Interim Executive Director, OCW Consortium, University of Notre Dame
• Daniel Carchidi, Publication Director, MIT
• Sunnie Kim, Creative Technologies Strategist, Michigan State University

Abstract

Whether yours is a liberal arts college or an R1 university, a public or a private school, a two- or a four-year program, your goals involve reaching and retaining a broader base of students and helping them be better prepared and motivated for the workplace than their predecessors. Chances are, you already have areas of expertise you want to promote, faculty whose techniques you want to replicate, and alliances you want to forge. Participants in this seminar will explore ways in which an OpenCourseWare site extends the reach of existing resources toward achievement of such goals. Focal points will include the use of OCW in the overcoming of barriers to learning in the engagement of lifelong learners and in the attraction of students who stand both to gain from and give more to your particular institution than ever before. Open sharing reaps both global benefits and local returns.