This is far from the first study to compare the Chinese Top Level Courses Project with MIT OpenCourseWare, there have already been a number of Chinese papers; There have been a number of studies published in Chinese that compare MIT OpenCourseWare with the Top Level Courses Project. Wang Hongju (2009) sees the purpose of MIT [...]

Nobody knows what the future holds for the Top Level Courses Project, which is scheduled to expire in 2010. It is probable that it will be renewed, but this could be done either with large-scale changes in organization, or relatively minor tweaks to assessment systems (Young 2010). Professor B3 believes that there will be more [...]

Although most of the articles are written in a laudatory tradition that does not doubt the good intentions or the success of the program, there are some interesting dissenting voices. Many pick up on the ambitious name “Top Level Courses”. Lu (2008) states that from his experience, many top professors are not willing to share [...]

Over the years since the Top Level Courses Project was launched in 2003, an ecosystem of services and providers has grown up around it. The Ministry of Education organizes a number of conferences and training sessions, as do provincial boards of education. As described in the case studies, universities themselves will organize internal training, both [...]

Initially there were no easy ways of finding out about the Chinese open courses, except for going to each individual university’s open course directory. There were some indices, but they were not very helpful. When the Top Level Courses Project was launched, there was no easy portal for discovering all the available courses. Each university [...]

I’ve been waiting for this moment for quite a long time. Living outside of Norway for many years, I’ve always been interested in technologies that enable me to access Norwegian culture from afar. I enjoy reading Norwegian newspapers online, I listen to a few podcasts from the national radio station, I follow some of the [...]