[LINK] MIT Online Course Pilot

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:15 AM 15/10/02 +1000, you wrote:
>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.

I found some interesting software tools in the Sloan School of Management 
area for the Introduction to Optimization course.  But I agree, it really 
seemed a bit of a fizzer when I went to have a look at some of the other 
subjects.

Jan


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