CORE was established in November 2003 following an MIT OpenCourseWare Conference in Beijing.
CORE was a consortium of universities that began with 26 IET Educational Foundation member universities and 44 China Radio and TV Universities, with a total enrollment of 5 million students. It aimed to provide Chinese universities with free and easy access to global open educational resources and provided a framework for Chinese-speaking universities to participate in the shared global network of advanced courseware with MIT and other leading universities.
Lead universities Beijing Jiaotong University Central South University Dalian University of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology Nanjing University Peking University Shanghai Jiaotong University Sichuan University Tsinghua University Xi'an Jiaotong University Open University of China
See also Higher education in China
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20130921210428/http://www.core.org.cn/