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Wednesday, June 26, 2002
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/jun2002/salter.html How MIT's OpenCourseWare Will Change E-Learning William J. Salter MIT's OpenCourseWare project will make virtually all of the school's course content available free on the Internet--and will transform the e-learning industry. In this new e-learning space, companies can add value by increasing interaction; tailoring, assembling, and re-purposing content; becoming certification authorities; innovating with technology; and innovating with pedagogy. On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles M. Vest announced the establishment of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), an ambitious 10-year project to make almost all MIT course materials available on the Internet free of charge. The news merited a front-page story in that day's New York Times. Strikingly bold in its scope and simplicity, this initiative promises to have major effects on education in general and e-learning in particular....
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