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...change the way the 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...
Harvard’s academic world promises other gems, but you may have to do some digging, especially when it comes to the Core. With nine areas, ranging from Quantitive Reasoning to three variations on English, these overwhelmingly large classes with strange syllabi also promise cryptic grading standards and generally ill-prepared graduate students posing as teaching fellows. There are some stars in the Core, from famous poetry critic Helen H. Vendler to Shakespeare expert Marjorie Garber, Kenan professor of English...
...compromises the value of an education at the 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...
...material available at the click of a mouse. Many Harvard students can relate to the frustration of going to a course website and finding nothing more than the names of the professor and teaching fellows. Professors should be expected to make all course material—such as handouts, syllabi, lecture notes and problem sets—electronically available to Harvard students. Ensuring that the sites are sensibly designed and regularly updated would do much to help students manage their course load and decide which courses to take in the future...
...could now audit courses regardless of scheduling and make more informed decisions on their course choices. However, we recognize that many professors may be leery of having their image and presentations available to the general public. Harvard should therefore encourage and provide funding for such efforts, but unlike syllabi, online lectures should remain at the professor’s discretion...