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Witness, for example, MIT economics professor Paul Krugman’s recent rant in The New York Times. Krugman begins with the smug declaration that Bush’s strategy is to treat crises not as “problems to be solved,” but as “opportunities to advance an agenda that [has] nothing to do with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks...
Princeton’s decision to pursue a wider distance learning context follows paths forged by MIT and Harvard...
Princeton has dropped out of an elite distance learning collaborative, announcing last week that it will join schools like Harvard and MIT in opening up its online academic resources to anyone who wants access...
...like to think that our alumni would take pride, as do alumni of MIT, in offering glimpses of what an education at Harvard [offers] to others,” Martin said, “but without the interaction that’s essential to a Harvard education and a Harvard degree...
Last week, MIT implemented the next phase of its “OpenCourseWare Initiative,” a $100 million, 10-year distance learning project that aims to make lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments for all of its courses accessible online at no cost to the general public...