Students attending college will definitely be interested in getting their hands on extra open courseware they can find from outside their schools for their courses for college. It may be that they need extra course notes to supplement the ones they got in class, or they missed a certain lecture from class, or they are looking for a different perspective and take on the same subject matter. They will all find their answers at ShareCourseware website.



ShareCourseware website includes thousands of open courseware in many areas. Major categories include Engineering, Earth Sciences, Social Studies, Natural Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Humanities, Management, and Law. And each category includes many subcategories or disciplines under it. For example, the Natural Sciences category includes Astronomy, Biology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics.

Anyone, both registered and non-registered users, can search, access, read or download any of these courseware absolutely free. Further, the website also allows registered members to post and upload lecture notes, course notes, video lectures in various formats so others can download and use them for their courses for college. All you need to do is complete a short registration form and become a member. Then, you can create an open courseware in any discipline, and edit or update it.

On this site, a courseware may includes course syllabus or course outline, lecture notes, video lecture, tests & exams, further reading materials, downloads, webliography, and options for user ratings and leaving comments. The site accepts text, pdf or ppt lecture notes, audio and video files, among other things. Once an open courseware is created and approved by site administrators, authors can edit and maintain their courseware however they see fit but subject to the rules and objectives of the site.

The site has advanced search features that include filters by category, subcategory, author, title, and keywords. Users can use these filters to find courses for college they are looking for quickly and effectively. Also, users can save any courseware as their favorite in the My Favorites folder, or download lecture notes and video lecture and save them in their computer. Similarly, the My Courseware folder allows them to see all open courseware they have posted on Sharecourseware, making editing and maintaining their courseware easy and convenient. This folder also displays how many times each open courseware was viewed and/or rated by users.

This website is different from all other similar sites in that it not only provides free access to all courseware it contains but also allows users to post open courseware and share them with the world as well. As more and more users upload new course materials, the site is expected to grow and become even more powerful.