OpenCourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet. The OCW movement began at MIT with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare in October 2002. Since then, a number of universities have created OCW projects, some of which have been funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation one of which being Yale University.

According to the website of the OCW Consortium, an OCW project:

• is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
• is available for use and adaptation under an open license.
• does not typically provide certification or access to instructors.

These world class colleges and universities have gone to tremendous effort to make this available to everyone. We encourage all distance learning students to make the most of these free materials.

UC Berkeley – Berkeley Webcast
Stanford University – Stanford Engineering Everywhere
University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame OCW
Yale University – Open Yale Courses
Tufts UNiversity – Tufts OCW
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Open Courseware
University of California at Irvine – UC Irvine OCW
Carnegie Mellon University – Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Apple’s iTunes U – Mobile Learning with an iPhone or iPod Touch

You can find more US accredited Open Courseware resources from the OpenCourseWare Consortium at THIS LINK.

One last good source for college course videos is Academic Earth.

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