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...world thinks about education, MIT announced last week that it was putting materials for its nearly 2,000 courses on the Web. The 10-year project, called MIT OpenCourseWare, would allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to read lecture notes, try problem sets and browse syllabi for any of MIT??€™s courses. We hope that MIT??€™s courageous decision will be copied by other universities—especially Harvard—for the sake of those who will be able to learn from the far corners of the globe, as well as the universities?...
...most immediate beneficiaries of MIT??€™s program will be those outside of Cambridge. By using OpenCourseWare, teachers can benefit from the expertise that has gone into crafting the MIT curriculum; education researchers can debate what topics should be included in standard courses; high-schoolers without access to quality instruction can download a syllabus and check out a textbook from a public library. Universities frequently spend millions in public-relations gestures to demonstrate the benefits they offer to the outside world; OpenCourseWare could be far more effective in promoting learning at far less cost...
...Sponsors of the event included the MIT College Republicans and The Tech, MIT??€™s student newspaper, which refused to print Horowitz's controversial ad when approached last spring...
...Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 said the University will have to weigh its options carefully before deciding whether to follow MIT??€™s course of action...
...Fineberg would not say whether the Harvard administration would approve of a program like MIT??€™s initiative. Last year, Harvard turned down an offer to join a distance learning alliance among Princeton, Yale, Stanford and Oxford...