Open Education Around the World: Education Portal Speaks with Taipei Medical University

In the pursuit of increasing access to education, Education-Portal.com has recently launched an interview series with OpenCourseWare (OCW) providers around the world. These institutions are at the forefront of the open education movement, which provides free educational resources to any student or self learner with an Internet connection

In the pursuit of increasing access to education, Education-Portal.com has recently launched an interview series with OpenCourseWare (OCW) providers around the world. These institutions are at the forefront of the open education movement, which provides free educational resources to any student or self learner with an Internet connection. Read on to learn about OCW opportunities at Taipei Medical University (TMU) from Marian Wan in the Office of Biomedical Informatics.

Education-Portal.com: When did Taipei Medical University begin offering course materials online, and what inspired you to join the OCW Consortium?

MW: Our first course went online in 2008, but most courses went up in 2010. The OpenSource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS) project, an effort to translate MIT's OCW into Chinese, exposed us to the concept of OCW in 2005. That led us to look deeper into this movement.