October 15, 2003
In this Issue >> MIT OpenCourseWare >> Fast Guide to free chapter downloads and book excerpts ________________ SPONSORED BY: CA Unicenter(R) infrastructure management software INFRASTRUCTURE SELF-MANAGEMENT Unicenter infrastructure management software from CA enables your infrastructure to manage itself, enabling IT managers to focus more on the business of business - and not the business of maintenance. Unicenter ensures that your IT is always in sync with your business, so you can be more responsive than ever to a constantly changing marketplace. http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,18899,00.htm?track=NL-37&&ca ___________________________ MIT OpenCourseWare by Margaret Rouse, Site Editor Mark Twain once said, "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." I wonder what Mr. Twain would think of MIT's latest educational initiative? As promised, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists, assignments, and practice exams for 500 courses, covering 33 academic disciplines and material from all 5 MIT schools. This incredible resource, called OpenCourseWare (OCW), is an educational initiative developed by MIT to provide a "free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world." MIT, known for its innovation in collaborative and distance learning projects, was inspired by the open source software movement. Faculty members have expressed the hope that OCW will encourage other universities to follow their initiative and join them in this "unprecedented step in challenging the privatization of knowledge." We hope you'll take advantage of this great learning opportunity. >> See our complete definition for OpenCourseWare http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci540010,00.html?track=NL-37 >> Go directly to MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html After you stop by MIT, let us know what you think! What was useful? What was not? mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ Fast Guide to free chapter downloads and book excerpts (NEW!) Another one of our favorite Mark Twain quotations is "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." We know that a lot of our readers are life-long learners. We like that about you. Each week, our sister sites publish free chapter downloads and book excerpts chock-full of useful information. It occurred to us that it might be handy for our readers if we put all the book links together in one Fast Reference. >> Find all our free book links in one spot. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci932156,00.html?track=NL-37 Have a good week! ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: MARGARET ROUSE, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IVY WIGMORE, Consulting Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) LOWELL THING, Consulting Editor and Founder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER :::::::::::::::::::::: This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. http://www.techtarget.com?track=NL-37 Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. ____________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from "Updates on new site content": Reply to this e-mail with REMOVE in the Subject line - OR - Go to unsubscribe: http://WhatIs.com/u?cid=470082?track=NL-37 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.
