ParisTech Open Course Ware

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A grand project :

The engineering institutions of ParisTech launched an ambitious project in November 2003, aiming at making available some of their educational resources (lecture notes, exercises, yearly archives, simulations, animations, course notes and videos).
One target of this project is to promote the high-quality teaching provided by those institutions, in order to attract foreign students.
Another goal is to contribute to bridge the digital divide by making available Open Access Educational Resources, in accordance with the recommendations of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This initiative appears in the WSIS stocktaking database.

This project is based on three principles:

1. Contributing to worldwide knowledge sharing;
2. Promoting pedagogical efforts from the staff of the eleven ParisTech institutions;
3. Fostering dynamics concerning the use of new information and communication technologies, combined with teaching and educational innovations within those institutions.
   

The teaching teams are at the heart of an innovative action plan:

One of the strengths of the project is the deep involvement by teaching teams:

1. every on-line resource is first developed internally by one of the ParisTech institutes, on an "educational web site" in order to make the resource available to its own students;
2. teachers volunteer to publish the whole internal educational site or parts of it on the Internet;
3. the institute then evaluates and opens its own educational site;
4. when the resources are updated for internal use, they are also automatically updated on the ParisTech web site.

Law and rights:

The educational resources made available by ParisTech abide by several
commitments set out in an "Open Knowledge" Charter. For each resource made available online:

• ParisTech abides by current laws in terms of third party copyrights;
• ParisTech defines its rights of use, after having established those with authors;
• ParisTech follows a process and criteria for assessment.

­­The educational resources that are made available are among those used currently by students at the various ParisTech institutions.
Furthermore, each ParisTech institution undertakes to foster open access availability of existing resources and creation of new ones by implementing targeted internal policies and activities.

Content:

The site already includes over 2000 educational resources from around 200 teaching units.
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The same sub-site also contains the detailed description of available programmes as well as of individual teaching units, which can help to understand the contaxt in which the educational resources are used.
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