CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN JAPAN

Kumiko Aoki

2011

Abstract

It has been almost a decade since MIT announced the OpenCourseWare (OCW) project in the spring of 2001. Several institutions in Japan also followed and on May 13, 2005, six prestigious universities in Japan formed the Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW). Since then, 36 organizations in Japan have joined JOCW, but its public recognition remains still low. Though JOCW has made a bold initiative and a significant contribution to the dialog of open educational resources in Japan, still there are a number of issues remain for long-term sustainability of OER activities in Japan. This paper discusses the issues of open educational resources in Japan.

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Aoki K. (2011). CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN JAPAN . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV, ISBN 978-989-8425-67-6, pages 27-33. DOI: 10.5220/0004471300270033


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@conference{innov11,
author={Kumiko Aoki},
title={CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN JAPAN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV,},
year={2011},
pages={27-33},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004471300270033},
isbn={978-989-8425-67-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: INNOV,
TI - CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN JAPAN
SN - 978-989-8425-67-6
AU - Aoki K.
PY - 2011
SP - 27
EP - 33
DO - 10.5220/0004471300270033