YES! It's great, almost astonishing news (not likely to be replicated I'd
guess): rather than pay $22K/yr for a MIT education, anyone in the world
connected to the Net can practically have it gratis! Although it makes one
wonder about all the early effort towards online-universities (that I was
involved with), that really didn't amount to much. (I was very tempted to
apply for MIT's MediaLab grad program when I was living/working in Boston
but it cost something like $500 just to apply!)
/:b
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Sol Nte wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thought some may be interested in this:
>
> >MIT is planning to make most of its
> course materials (lectures, outlines, reading lists) available on the
> web in the next few years.
>
> See the MIT News page for details:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/ocw.html
> <
>
>
> To me this is quite an exciting development. Whilst arguably most
> information is widely available to everyone the particular presentation of
> that information which is unique to the education system of which it forms a
> part is not something that has been freely available in the past.
>
> What will be interesting now is to see which institutions follow MIT's lead.
> Certainly I would like to see more opening up of arts education in this way,
> particularly programs in art history that could usefully direct one's own
> reading.
>
> cheers,
>
> Sol.
>
>
