Outline of Japan Opencourseware Consortium and Current Status of Hokkaido University Opencourseware
Masayuki AIKAWA
(Hokkaido University, Japan)
Marie TSUDA Izumi FUSE Yoshiharu HIRABAYASHI Masashi NOSAKA Tetsu TANABE Yuichi YAMAMOTO Kohei WATANABE Shigeto OKABE
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Outline of Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW)
• Japan Opencourseware Alliance (6 universities) was established in May 2005.
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New members (3 universities, including Hokkaido University, and 1 institution) joined the Alliance in December 2005.
The Alliance was reorganized as Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW) in April 2006.
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Materials being published in JOCW
• JOCW members are publishing more than 300 courses and making efforts to publish more courses.
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Some of them include movies and audios, available through Podcasts and so on.
The materials are licensed under the terms and conditions defined in each university.
Number of courses in JOCW
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A JOCW Member, Hokkaido University
• Hokkaido University started out in 1876 as the Sapporo Agricultural College, the first modern academic institute in Japan.
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The university consists of 12 faculties, which is the largest in number in Japan, 16 graduate schools and others.
In 2006, Beijing office has opened as the first university-wide liaison office overseas.
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Hokkaido University Opencourseware (HU-OCW)
• Hokkaido University started an opencourseware project in 2005, and joined JOCW in December.
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HU-OCW website opened in April 2006, with 14 courses (13 courses in Japanese and 1 in English).
Recently, 8 new courses (7 in Japanese and 1 in English) have been added.
HU-OCW top page http://ocw.hokudai.ac.jp
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Features of HU-OCW
• Hokkaido University has unique faculties among JOCW members because of historical and regional reasons.
Faculty In HU-OCW
Institute of Low Temperature Science
Faculty of Agriculture Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Faculty of Fisheries Sciences Center for Advanced Tourism Studies
1 movie, 1 course
1 movie 1 movie 1 movie 1 movie
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The top page of HU-OCW website has been translated into English and Simplified Chinese.
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Course Materials in HU-OCW - 1
• • “Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers” by Prof. Greve A Lecture of International Antarctic Institute
– see http://wwwearth.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/IAI/index_en.html
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Course Materials in HU-OCW - 2
• “Rock Engineering” by Yoshiaki FUJII
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Problems in HU-OCW
• • • Collection of materials is difficult. HU-OCW is not famous in Hokkaido University. The law of intellectual property arises difficulties.
– Course materials – Figures created by others Viewer In a class Through the Internet Permission Unnecessary Necessary
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Intellectual Property in HU-OCW
• In Hokkaido University,
– the intellectual property of materials created in Hokkaido University belongs to authors of them. – HU-OCW needs authors’ permission to publish the materials through the Internet.
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If the materials include works created by other authors,
– HU-OCW applies for permission. – some of rights may be restricted by authors.
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Until now, the number of applications is 33. The result is 19 permissions and 2 rejections (and 12 reservations).
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Example of Course Materials
Title page with notation: Usage of figures with the symbol ‡ is limited.
Figures with the symbol ‡ and its reference
Notation that the figure has been removed.
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Future Plan of HU-OCW
• HU-OCW has to
– Provide more courses. – Provide some courses and pages in foreign languages. – Grant authors’ requests.
• To avoid responsibility • Not to waste time
– Cooperate with organizations in foreign countries, including China.
• Hokkaido University has opened Beijing office in May 2006.
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