Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, November 08, 2001

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MIT's OpenCourseWare program begins Web-based pilot
By Vincent Chen, The Tech (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The OpenCourseWare initiative, a 10-year, $100 million project to make materials from nearly 2,000 classes available online, recently moved into a pilot phase that will make a limited number of classes available on the Internet. The OpenCourseWare (OCW) Transition Project Team, headed by Laura F. Koller, a multimedia producer for the Center for Advanced Educational Services, and Kyung Han, a consultant, began working with a few pilot departments in October, including the Department of
Biology (Course VII) and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Course XIV). The transition project will run until March 2002....



 



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