A CourseWare Alliance

Creating Effective, Affordable Courseware for Student Success at Scale

CourseWorks develops courseware by educators, for educators, and with educators through a collaboration between ASU’s InSpark initiative and CMU’s Open Learning Initiative. Built on the open-source Torus platform and supporting 87 course titles and 85,000 enrollments each year, the alliance offers a research-driven catalog that supports teaching and learning across a wide range of disciplines.

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What Is CourseWorks?

A nonprofit alliance of universities—led by CMU’s Open Learning Initiative and ASU’s ETX Center—that collaborates to create, distribute, and iterate on high-quality courseware at a low cost.

The alliance maintains a shared catalog of more than 80 research-based courses adopted by over 150 institutions and used by more than 85,000 students each year.

All CourseWorks content is delivered on Torus, an open-source, research-grade platform built for adaptive, simulation-based, and evidence-driven learning experiences.

By Educators, For Educators:
What Makes CourseWorks Different

Evidence-Based Design for Student Success

Built on more than 20 years of learning science research, this courseware has been shaped by hundreds of faculty and iteratively improved over time through community input and student data.

Open-Source Technology and Non-Profit Model

CourseWorks runs on the open-source Torus platform, leveraging a cooperative business model that reinvests revenue into courseware iteration and the education community using our products.

A Healthier Alternative to Traditional Publishers

CourseWorks brings institutions together around content, research, and infrastructure created by educators, for educators, and with educators—a collaborative model where the people who teach can shape, refine, and advance the materials they rely on.

Explore Our Offerings

See the CourseWorks-aligned offerings currently provided by our partner institutions. A unified catalog is coming soon to provide a single, streamlined point of access.