The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a revolutionary open courseware system that shares the catalogue of 700 MIT classes with anyone who has an Internet connection. The OpenCourseWare website presents the complete educational curriculum from 33 major academic disciplines to assist you in distance learning. The courseware includes the class syllabus, schedule, assignments, and resource materials. And it's all collected in a free, searchable index open to educators and students across the globe.
The World at Your Desktop
The project was created by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation and went online in the Fall of 2002, at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html. The online courseware comes from all of MIT's schools: the Schools of Architecture and Planning; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Science; and the Sloan School of Management. According to MIT, the courseware can be copied, duplicated for classroom use, and freely distributed anywhere. Materials from the classes have been translated into more than 10 languages and distributed to online visitors from several hundred countries. Site data shows more than 120 million hits in the first year of service.
They Have What You Need
MIT courses are presented in Aeronautics and Astronautics; Linguistics and Philosophy; Anthropology; Literature; Architecture; Materials Science and Engineering; Biological Engineering; Mathematics; Biology; Mechanical Engineering; Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Media Arts and Sciences; Chemical Engineering; Music and Theater Arts; Chemistry; Nuclear Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ocean Engineering; Comparative Media Studies; Physics; Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Political Science; Economics; Urban Studies and Planning; Foreign Languages and Literature; Women's Studies; Health Sciences and Technology; History; Writing and Humanistic Studies.
