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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
http://newsobserver.com/business/story/1853439p-1848660c.html MIT's bold venture PAUL GILSTER The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is engaged in a remarkable experiment. It's one that wouldn't have raised interest in the go-go dot-com days, when the great theme was how to use the Internet to make money. But it's a venture that could prove something technologists have been saying all along: the Net will change how we learn. MIT has chosen to make the course materials of nearly all its undergraduate and graduate classes available on the Web. For free. We're talking about course outlines, lecture notes, reading lists, and digital content ranging from presentations to multimedia teaching tools. We're talking, in fact, about whatever a skilled teacher has decided to bring to the class in pursuit of learning. This isn't a degree-granting enterprise, and it shouldn't be confused with so-called "distance learning," where students actually enroll in classes supported by various network tools. Instead, it's a free offer of thousands of pages of information, thousands of hours of lectures, and a chance to sit in on experiments and seminars conducted by some of the nation's brightest minds....
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