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http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/06/2001061801u.htm

MIT Wins Grants to Make All Its Course Materials Free Online
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received two grants, totaling
$11-million, for its project to post course materials online, including an
effort to develop software for online courses that other institutions could
use free. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
have approved grants of $5.5-million each over 27 months to support the
first phase of the institute's OpenCourseWare project. M.I.T. plans to
formally announce the grants today. M.I.T.'s plans for the project have sparked widespread interest at other
institutions, and many see it as an important statement that course
materials should be considered scholarly publications, not commercial
products....

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