[ Thanks to Paul
Eggert for this link. ]
“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology–in an unprecedented
step in world-wide education–announced today it plans to make the
materials for nearly all its courses freely available on the
Internet over the next ten years.”
“The website for the project–MIT OpenCourseWare–would include
material such as lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists, and
assignments for each course. Over the next decade, the project
expects to provide materials for over 2,000 courses across MIT’s
entire curriculum–in architecture and planning, engineering,
humanities, arts, social sciences, management, and science.”
“The MIT OCW infrastructure could serve as a model for other
institutions that choose to make similar content open and
available.“