摘要:Universities need both to incorporate new courses to the existing programs and to modify the old courses according to the new knowledge and development trends of the field. This means constant work in producing educational materials for the courses, especially in the rapidly developing field of computer science.
Open Source Courseware project [1] was launched to help with this problem 1) by creating a community to develop learning materials by open source principles and 2) by distributing the practical knowledge related to courses by organizing the courses distributively among several universities. The starting point for the project was a long-time tradition, similar to OpenCourseWare [4], to archive and publish course-related teaching materials on WWW. Since plain teaching materials are not enough to really transfer a course to another university, these are accompanied with process descriptions and experiences from the actual course implementations.