Tue, 01 Oct 2002
MIT Releases Open Courseware
MIT has released it's first iteration of Open Courseware to the public. While I'm excited about the long term prospects, I'm a bit disappointed in the short term. The greatest long term potential may be to influence curricula at lesser institutions from community colleges to high schools. Unless I'm missing something, the short term is less impressive. The site certainly looks nice, but there's not much content. These are all lessons they could have gotten from reading their own graduates, and professors. Why a single person can do this in his spare time with a minimum of effort and produce useful results when a university-funded project can barely get off the ground is beyond me. Oh wait, I forgot. It's really quite sad. Philip Greenspun's materials have been online for years and he's been at MIT for eons, but his own stuff doesn't appear on the Open Courseware site. Go figure.
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