Inside Higher Ed: Really Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 2, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Few projects in academe have attracted the attention and praise
in recent years of OpenCourseWare, a program in which the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making all of its course
materials available online–free–for anyone to use.

“In the four years since MIT launched the effort, use of the
courseware has skyrocketed, and several other universities have
created similar programs, assembling material from their own
courses…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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