Opening the Mind
MIT has put the first of its courses on the web. Their goal is to eventually have all their course materials available to anyone who wants them. Now, they have course materials for
- Linguistic Theory and the Japaneses Language
- Numerical Methods applied to Chemical Engineering
- Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Marine Hydrodynamics
and a bunch of others.
It won't be the same, in any way, as actually taking a class at MIT, but it's cool in one of those 'I don't know how I will ever use this' ways. And I admire it for both for its tremendous contribution to the public good and for helping to demonstrate the idea that information, knowledge, and wisdom are not the same and maybe we don't have to be afraid of sharing information after all.
Comments
I hadn't seen that. I would never have thought that any university would ever do that.
Cool!!
Posted by: TM(tm) | October 4, 2002 07:33 AM
Glad I could point you to it. I think it's pretty neat. And it's not a low resource undertaking for them, which makes it doubly cool in my opinion. I hope they are much appreciated for it.
Posted by: debco | October 4, 2002 09:32 PM
Barnes & Noble University is now offering a free (except for the required textbooks you buy from them {g}) course called Jesus, Inc.: Doing Well by Doing Right. It's in the category Business & Office Productivity.
I thought of you because of the post about MIT, and a previous discussion here about corporations and moral behavior.
Posted by: Irongall | October 7, 2002 12:06 PM