MIT Putting Entire Curriculum Online For Free - [briefly] 09:51 AM EDT - Mar,14 2007 - post a comment According to EETimes,
MIT is planning on putting its entire 1800 course curriculum online for free
by the end of the year:
On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the
university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end. Currently, some 1.5
million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site
every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated
their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course
curriculums available online to date.
Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that 17% were
educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were self learners. Other
learners come from nations all over the world, from Antarctica to Darfur. He
notes that the highest traffic in the United States comes from leading high-tech
states Massachusetts and California. South Korea has a sizable base, accounting
for a higher number of learners than, for instance, in China, its neighbor. Many
learners are college teachers and professors, who want to sharpen their own
teaching courses and methods. In a typical example, physics professor Younes
Attaourti of Marrakesh, Morocco, has used MIT materials for his courses on
statistical physics and quantum theory.
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