Friday, April 14, 2006

MIT OpenCourseWare Project Five Year Anniversary MIT celebrated the 5-year anniversary of the OCW project with a news announcement in April. It's worth pausing to consider how fast the OCW project has become a movement to provide open course content from a number of universities around the world--all of which follow the MIT model. ____JH ______ "Five years ago today, in an unprecedented step toward making knowledge accessible worldwide, MIT announced it would make the materials for nearly all of its courses available on the Internet. Since then, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has flourished beyond all expectations. Educators around the world are extracting pedagogy, ideas and teaching tools from the MIT course materials -- including syllabi, course notes, assignments, problem sets and lab notes -- to fine-tune their own offerings at their home universities. OCW now stands as a new model for disseminating knowledge, serving as a sort of 'shared intellectual commons' available to educators and learners around the globe." 9:05:02 AM    COMMENT []