"Anyone can get a sneak peek at a top-flight college education on the Web for free now that MIT is posting a sample of its courseware online." wired.com
needless to say this is just great, there should be a law requiring all universities (danish unis are all government funded) to publish these materials (hmm, how do you lobby in denmark?). all of this material is created anyhow, it's just a matter of opening up and publishing it on the net for public consumption. creating videos of lectures like in the linear algebra course is just a natural evolution of this openness, and the videos work, it's just like being there. go check out that first lecture (and you will notice that even the MIT chalk is better than at cbs!