[LINK] MIT Online Course Pilot

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Eric,

I'm interested/fascinated by the MIT story. Questions that could be worth
asking:

a) What's MIT's policy re ownership of inventions? Do they revert to MIT?
Are they held by the inventor? Split between local facilities and head
office? 

b) "What's in it for them"? (Cynical, I know, but still...)

c) The MIT facility in Ireland doesn't seem to own any patents yet - is that
because it's too young? - or because research outside the US is subordinate
- ie, "you get this piece of the project, but head office is in charge)?

d) The Indian MIT project seems to be running late - since it holds Indian
government money, it might be nice to know why.

Just thoughts ... because we wouldn't want an overseas project getting a
free ride just because of cultural cringe... .gov.au and .edu.au should make
sure we get value out of it, not just a brand and some press releases.

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Scheid [mailto:eric.scheid@ironclad.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 02:35
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> Subject: Re: [LINK] MIT Online Course Pilot 
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> From: Stephen Loosley <stephen@melbpc.org.au> (3/10/02 1:18 AM)
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> >Beginning yesterday, MIT will make all of their courses
> >available online, and is offering free public access.
> 
> in other news...
> 
> >MIT coup for Australia
> >AUSTRALIA has been earmarked for a campus of the prestigious
> >Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media
> >Laboratory.
> >http://email.ni.com.au/Click?q=7b-prt_IBZ0w9kwmX8bDl9q2O1D
> 
> e.
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