{"id":56,"date":"2020-06-05T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/chapter\/section-2-1\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:46:16","slug":"section-2-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openstudio.pub\/niioer\/chapter\/section-2-1\/","title":{"raw":"Information Sources","rendered":"Information Sources"},"content":{"raw":"<h2><strong>OpenCourseWare (OCW)<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nThe repository collects and displays metadata for open educational resources (OER) from OpenCourseWare (OCW) websites operated by higher education institutions across Japan. Current metadata sources include the following institutions:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Nagoya University: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/en\/\">NUOCW<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Kyoto University: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/\">Kyoto University OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Kyushu University: <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/\">QOCW<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Sophia University: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.cc.sophia.ac.jp\/\">Sophia University OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>University of Tsukuba: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.tsukuba.ac.jp\/\">University of Tsukuba OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Hokkaido University: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.hokudai.ac.jp\/\">Hokkaido University OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>International Christian University: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.info.icu.ac.jp\/\">ICU OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>The Open University of Japan: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouj.ac.jp\/reasons-to-choose-us\/ocw\/\">The Open University of Japan OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tokyo Institute of Technology: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocw.titech.ac.jp\/\">Tokyo Tech OCW<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>The University of Tokyo: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/\">UTokyo OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAll of the institutions listed above are members of <a href=\"https:\/\/oe-japan.netlify.app\/\">Open Education Japan (OE Japan)<\/a>, an organization that supports the advancement of open education in Japan. Metadata is provided through a formal partnership between OE Japan and the National Institute of Informatics (NII).\r\n\r\n<strong>2. Teaching and Learning Materials Registered in Institutional Repositories<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe repository also collects and displays metadata for teaching and learning materials registered in institutional repositories through <a href=\"https:\/\/irdb.nii.ac.jp\/\"><strong>Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)<\/strong><\/a>, a cross-institutional discovery service provided by the National Institute of Informatics (NII). IRDB aggregates metadata from institutional repositories across Japan.","rendered":"<h2><strong>OpenCourseWare (OCW)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The repository collects and displays metadata for open educational resources (OER) from OpenCourseWare (OCW) websites operated by higher education institutions across Japan. 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