Welcome to the OceanTeacher OpenCourseWare site.

OceanTeacher is a comprehensive web-based training system that supports Classroom training (face-to-face), Blended training (combining classroom and distance learning), online tutoring and online self-learning.

OceanTeacher has been developed as a training system for ocean data managers (working in ocean data centres), marine information managers (marine librarians) as well as for marine researchers who wish to acquire knowledge on data and/or information management. In addition OceanTeacher is being used for training in other related disciplines.

OceanTeacher has two main components: the OceanTeacher Digital Library (a collection of knowledge and resources) and the OceanTeacher OpenCourseWare - the site you are visiting now - (a collection of course outlines and courseware).

When the Digital Library and OpenCourseWare are used together for a training event this is called an OceanTeacher Classroom. The collection of all training instances constitutes the OceanTeacher Academy.

All OceanTeacher content is freely and openly available and access does not require registration. OceanTeacher content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

If you wish to participate in training events you will need to formally apply and, provided you are accepted for a course, you will also need to register online (to create your online account). In order to start preparing for the course (pre-course assignments) you will need to enrol for the course.

Classroom courses are organized either at the IOC Project Office for IODE (Oostende, Belgium) or other training facilities.

Available courses are listed below.

A number of these will be organized as Classroom courses in 2012. The programme for 2012 includes the following (as from November 2011):

Dates 2012	Course Title (venue) - click on hyperlink to see details on accepted applicants and lecturers/ click on icon to see the course outline	Open for applications
19-23 March	OceanTeacher Academy Course DM: Marine GIS Applications using ArcGIS (Ostend, Belgium)	Closed
9-20 April	Introduction to Ocean Data Management for Students of the Environment (Parts 1 & 2) - Algarve University, Faro, Portugal [Accredited Course]	Attendance is limited to current participants in the Erasmus Mundus Course
23 April-3 May	University Curriculum in Marine Data Management (2012) - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium [Accredited Course]	Attendance is limited to current participants in the Erasmus Mundus Course
21-25 May	Preservation of Books and Other Media (Ostend, Belgium)	Closed [1 February - 1 March]
10-14 September	Operational Oceanography: Synoptic View of the Sea (Ostend, Belgium)	Closed [8 February - 23 March]
17-21 September	Grant Writing (for digitisation projects) (Ostend, Belgium)	Closed [5 March - 13 April]
5-9 November	Marine and Coastal Atlas Development (Ostend, Belgium)	predicted early June
19-24 November	Development and Management of e-Repositories (Ostend, Belgium)	predicted early June

To apply to an OceanTeacher Academy course please read and follow carefully the instruction under Registration.

Download the Ocean Teacher Academy Application Form 2012