MIT pilot goes live:
Last week I mentioned MIT’s exciting new program, Open CourseWare (OCW). The program aims to ‘advance education by increasing access to academic materials through the Internet and the World Wide Web’. MIT’s OCW pilot is the first step in making all their academic materials publicly available. The pilot is scheduled to run for a year, during which time a sample of MIT work will be available, and the project managers will use feedback to mold and shape the program in preparation for making all their materials available late next year.
I’ve taken a look at some of the offerings, and although there isn’t too much at this point in time, the materials that are there are well worth spending some time on. I encourage you to make use of OCW, and give the project management any feedback which you think may help improve OCW.
