More good stuff on China's Top Level Courses Project (TLCP). This post looks at the impact of MIT's OpenCourseWare and suggests that while TLCP is "not an imported model." It's true, argues the author, that OCW was intended to set as a new nromative ideal that "that all universities should digitize and open access to their course materials." But this norm does not apply to TLCP, for three reasons: TLCP courses do not use an open license; increased access to education is never mentioned in any TLCP documents; and there are very few examples of educators outside TLCP voluntarily sharing their products. All of that said, if OCW is viewed as a pragnatic reform, rather than one intended to set a norm, then the link between it and TLCP is easier to see. "Tan Feng (2008) believes that the Top Level Courses Project was China's response to the MIT project" and was implemented to serve the explosive growth of education during a period of massification in China.
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