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Thursday, November 07, 2002
Rewriting the Book on Education—Ivy League Style by Jamus Jerome Lim
The recent decision by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to make freely available on the Internet almost all course material (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001) is a break from tradition. It is true, of course, that different methods of distance education have been used by many schools for some time now. One is reminded immediately of institutions such as the University of Phoenix, which provides primarily off-campus education, and Monash University, which has various campuses in Australia as well as one in Malaysia. Likewise, the employment of new technologies for educational delivery is now widespread. Many instructors routinely establish course Web sites, with the process being more institutionalized in some and less so in others. For example, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) creates a Web site for every undergraduate course. However, the level of access to materials varies according to instructor: for some, only the course syllabi are available to people not registered for the classes; for others, discussion questions, lecture notes, and detailed course outlines are freely available.
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