Open courseware and Open Educational Resources started as an idea and a vision and, over the course of a decade, have morphed in to a Worldwide effort to bring free, high-quality educational materials to the masses.

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Oryoki is a simple, open courseware publication system that makes it easy for organizations and individuals to share educational materials online. Oryoki is easy to deploy and maintain, allowing users to concentrate on publishing material not maintaining software. The project is currently in the early stages of development and will be part of my master’s degree thesis before it officially goes public. In addition to the application, I will also be publishing the design research that accompanied the project.

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Education is expensive. Not only is it expensive, but costs at some U.S. universities are skyrocketing at ten to twenty times the current rate of inflation. To give you an example, I’ve been attending Michigan State University since August of 2002 (four years as an undergraduate and two as a grad student). In that six years, tuition for in-state undergraduates has jumped from $179.75 to $277.50 per credit hour. That’s an increase of over 60% in 6 years—obviously our current system is not sustainable.

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