Why EdX and not OpenCourseWare (OCW)? Before Coursera, a lot was freely available without having to go through the agreements and overhead required to access v

Why EdX and not OpenCourseWare (OCW)? Before Coursera, a lot was freely available without having to go through the agreements and overhead required to access via a MOOC like EdX. Harvard and UC Berkeley used to have an excellent OCW sites but they migrated a lot of content to EdX or elsewhere and removed it from their OCW sites. Stanford also took a lot of stuff off of their multiple OCW type of sites and moved it to Coursera or elsewhere. Thankfully, MIT still kept much of their stuff on their OCW site even after adding it to EdX. Ten to fifteen years ago a lot of universities had sites imitating MIT OCW but now very few do. The trend has been to move very good freely available notes, etc., off of faculty webpages to behind Blackboard or similar logins; now there is little left that is publicly available and easily accessible without having to login to some site (or be tracked). I spent a lot of time searching for reasons why universities went away from OCW. Apparently, people with hearing disabilities sued universities to get transcripts added to OCW courses that had videos on the grounds that lack of transcripts left them at a competitive disadvantage. This didn't make sense to me: many OCW courses had great course materials but no videos; courses with videos could simply release one video at a time with the next video held off until the general public / free users / people like me completed a transcript on a wiki type site of the previous lecture. (For some of those course materials, I would have gladly worked on transcripts on a wiki for free!) In case there is anyone out there that isn't aware of any of these: * https://www.oeconsortium.org/ https://www.oeconsortium.org/ * https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm * http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ * ...