We can all go to MIT!

by Phantom Stranger 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Phantom Stranger

  This month, MIT officially launches its OpenCourseWare initiative (at ocw.mit.edu). With OpenCourseWare, which has been in pilot mode for one year, MIT has put a large amount of its course materials, including videos of lectures and classes, online for anyone to access freely. This is a brilliant win/win proposition for MIT in nearly every way. The school looks good to the world community for making it possible for people everywhere to enrich their educations.

  (Austin Powers voice) Oooooooooh, yeah, baby! Yeah!

  Sounds good for those of us who didn't make it the first time :)
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  joannadandy

  Yeah...having me take an MIT course, even if it is online, is a bit like putting a kindergartener in a college-prep class.

  Joanna of the "I'm mad at numbers, there's like too many of them" class.
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  Phantom Stranger

  They have a great school on New Media...
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  Valis

  Its been around for a while. I posted about it October of last year.

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  GentlyFeral

  Whoa, there's plenty of humanities stuff on here. THANKS!

  GentlyFeral
  budding litgeek
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  SixofNine

  The following is long but interesting. Philip Greenspun is an MIT professor, and his ramblings on the net (usually about cameras and photography) are some of the first things I remember reading when I first got online.

  Anyway, this page posted below (from 1998) seems to be the genesis of the free courseware @ MIT.