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Wednesday, September 19, 2001
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/oct01/insight.asp Brave New World for Higher Education: Digital technologies have created the "open-source" university By Michael Schrage In April 2001, MIT president Charles M. Vest announced that the Institute would bring the "open-source" software sensibility to higher education and offer—for free!—its curricula and courseware to the world via the Web. This "OpenCourseWare" initiative represents a radically different approach to digitizing, marketing and globalizing education. "OpenCourseWare looks counterintuitive in a market-driven world. It goes against the grain of current material values," said Vest at the time. "But it really is consistent with what I believe is the best about MIT." He concluded, "Simply put, OpenCourseWare is a natural marriage of American higher education and the capabilities of the World Wide Web."...
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