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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
http://www.dailytrojan.com/article.do?issue=/V147/N43&id=04-mit.43c.html MIT’s course materials, available online, influencing USC to look into resource AMY CAVANAUGH. Contributing Writer At first glance, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new Internet-based program OpenCourseWare appeared as an easy way to reap the benefits of an accredited university's education while avoiding tuition's high costs. Jon Paul Potts, manager of communications for MIT's OpenCourseWare, however, made it clear that the program and its "open and available" nature, was not meant to replace the university setting. "The American university will never go away," Potts said. "We cannot expect to replace the interaction between faculty and student. We are not trying to replicate or recreate on the Web what MIT teaches. This is not a distance learning program. This is not an MIT education. It is simply a tool that people can use to see how an MIT education is taught." OpenCourseWare, at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html, is a large-scale, Web-based publication of MIT faculty course materials, including lecture notes, reading and visuals that are open and available to the world, according to an official MIT document....
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