Sunday, September 22, 2002MIT's gift to the worldMIT's Open Courseware initiative (a good overview from the BBC) is the kind of thing that more universities ought to be doing. As other college, universities, and online schools charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars per credit, MIT will be giving away all of their course materials, including lecture notes and videos, for free:"I genuinely think there was an 'a-ha' moment when they said our mission was actually to enhance education," said Anne Margulies, Executive Director of OCW.Dartmouth should take this seriously (regardless of its "mission"), as the college and its faculty have a lot to offer less-privileged students. Vox clamantis in deserto, right? Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:55 PM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
Dartlog ToolsHanover NewsDartmouth LinksNota BeneArticles of note—culled from the Internet by TDR. Nothing thrills a classical music crowd more than a new piece of music that doesn't make them physically ill. "Irony, it turns out, does cross the Hudson River." You don't say. Child rape, pt. II. Moral Hypocrisy What's worse: killing someone, or raping a child? Did Aristotle steal his works from the Egyptians? A theory rebutted. Advertisement  Dartmouth BlogsFavorites
Advertisement |
|
Copyright © 1996-2008 The Dartmouth Review |
|