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	MIT to put entire curriculum online by end of 2007 for free

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3-5-2007 10:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3f5ffd0d-dfcc-4dcc-8edb-8247a0f5e17f/9E4334C9-9E34-448A-AEAC-0B49F139FA51/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062" href="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062" style="font-size: 11px;">www.iwr.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062"><H1>MIT puts entire curriculum at disposal of e-learners</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062"><DIV class="articlebyline"><SPAN class="bold">By Kim Thomas</SPAN> <SPAN class="datecolour">23 Feb 2007</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062"><P>The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious
<A href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/dresselhaus.html"><STRONG>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</STRONG> </A>(MIT) will be available free online by
the end of the year. Once uploaded, it will represent one of the internet’s most
important resources.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062"><P>By providing free access to course material such as lecture notes, assignment
details, podcasts and videocasts,
<A href="http://www.iwr.co.uk/computing/news/2174352/government-stalls-ec-plan"><STRONG>MIT’s
Open CourseWare programme</STRONG> </A>will transform the e-learning landscape.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iwr.co.uk/2184062"><P>MIT initiated the programme in 2001 and material from 1,550 MIT courses is
already available. Anne Margulies, executive director of Open CourseWare, said
that in January alone, the site had had 1.5 million visits, and the figure rose
to two million if visits to language translated sites were included. Overseas
visitors– from China and India in particular – dominate usage traffic, with 60%
of visits originating outside the US.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9E4334C9-9E34-448A-AEAC-0B49F139FA51/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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