[LINK] MIT Online Course Pilot

[Chirgwin, Richard]

> MIT just had the bright idea of adding some PR 
> spin to this.

Totally unfair Tom! How could you call this, the first fruits of what MIT
announced last year as a $100 Million project, "PR spin"?
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Richard Chirgwin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Worthington [mailto:tom.worthington@tomw.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 10:15
> To: link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] MIT Online Course Pilot 
> 
> 
> At 01:18  3/10/02, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> >... Beginning yesterday, MIT will make all of their courses 
> available 
> >online, and is offering free public access. Here are the 
> pilot courses 
> >available thus far ... 
> (http://ocw.mit.edu/global/all-courses.html) ...
> 
> The only MIT IT course I could find was: "6.170-Laboratory in 
> Software 
> Engineering" <http://ocw.mit.edu/6/6.170/f01/index.html>. 
> This has lecture 
> notes in PDF and other materials in HTML. It doesn't look 
> very different to 
> the course web pages which universities have been providing 
> on-line for 
> years. These have lecture notes, tutorial and assignment 
> questions for 
> conventional face-to-face courses. They aren't interactive distance 
> education courses. It wasn't worth the bother password 
> protecting this 
> material and if people used them for non-profit educational 
> purposes then 
> no one minded. MIT just had the bright idea of adding some PR 
> spin to this.
> 
> 
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