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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...
...trade school on the Charles, MIT plans to offer no credit to those who might peruse its material. We doubt that anyone will drop out of MIT (or choose not to apply) because they can now sit at home and read syllabi and lecture notes on the Web. Instead, MIT??€™s decision sets it apart from other universities, notably a coalition of Princeton, Stanford, Yale and Oxford, which last year announced a distance-learning program which will most likely include some form of academic credit. These efforts are far more likely to compromise the value of on-campus...
...service is provided only to alumni and offers access to certain course materials of limited substance. Instead of such fundraising-oriented eye candy, the University should use its resources to benefit current students through online technologies. The best way to do that is to follow MIT??€™s lead in making more and better information about Harvard’s courses accessible over...
...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...