翻译：姜凯文(简介并寄信)
修正校定：朱学恒
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麻省理工“开放式课程”计划更新日期：2003年一月
每月发行给麻省理工“开放式课程”计划的使用者及伙伴的电子报
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麻省理工开放式课程电子报 2003年一月号内容：
1. 根据使用者的反应重新设计的麻省理工开放式课程先期计划
2. 来自世界各地的回响
3. 深度探索：课程 6.170
4. 本月的科技小百科
5. 一个常见问题
1. 根据使用者的反应重新设计的麻省理工开放式课程先期计划
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麻省理工开放式课程网站的改良版已经于2003年1月15日对外开放，针对使用者的实用性与网站导览进行改版。本次的改版是麻省理工开放式课程小组根据所收到的，从2002年9月30日开始的麻省理工开放式课程的先期计划的使用者回馈建议。使用者会发现先期网站崭新的首页、改良后的”协助”部份以及”来自世界各地的回响”的新网页，这是分享从去年秋天启用的麻省理工开放式课程先期计划所收到的美好讯息。另外，在2002年12月17日增加了18门麻省理工学院的课程，包含新提供的人类学、比较媒体研究、历史、文学、材料科学与工程以及核子工程。完整的课程列表请详
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
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2. 来自世界各地的回响
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自麻省理工开放式课程的先期计划启用的三个月，初期的成果显示在2001年4月由校长Charles M. Vest所指导的愿景 – 将麻省理工学院的教材上网，并免费提供给世界各地的使用者 - 是一个崇高的、可达成的目标。想了解我们的使用者 – 一个全球性的教育者、学生及自修者所形成的社群 – 及全世界的媒体对麻省理工开放式课程所说的话，请造访我们的“来自世界各地的回响”网页，网址是：
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/worldreaction.htm
另外还有：
Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology choisit la gratuité sur le Web
Le Monde, October 21, 2002
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3416--295113-,00.html
麻省理工学院在网站上提供的免费教材
计算机世界, 2002年10月11日
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2002/story/0,11280,75085,00.html
全世界都成了麻省理工学院的校园了
Wired.com, 2002年10月4日
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,55507,00.html
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3. 深度探索：课程 6.170
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每个月，麻省理工开放式课程的更新讯息会提供订阅者对一篇导读，针对已成为麻省理工开放式课程先期计划一份子的主题网站。本月，我们将深入探索“课程 6.170：2001秋季课程：软件工程实验”，你可以在麻省理工开放式课程网站上找到：
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/CourseHome/index.htm
在课程 6.170中，麻省理工学院的学生要合作撰写程式，开发Gizmoball 弹钢珠游戏，这是一款在电子游乐场常见的游戏。当钢珠落下时玩家可控制一组打击钢珠的杆子(将球击回)。这款由麻省理工学院的学生团队所开发的Gizmoball 弹钢珠游戏的版本可在网站上找到：
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Projects/index.htm#overview
点选左边的导览区的“课堂讲稿”，这些讲稿是用pdf的格式– 点选任一个PDF文件可查阅课程讲稿的范例
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/LectureNotes/index.htm
点选“专题”可以找到如何制作Gizmoball。
点选“制作软件系统文件”，程式初学者可找到好的练习。不管运作起来有多么顺利，一个说明文件和流程文件不完整的系统不值一文:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Projects/index.htm
点选“工具”部份，可找到要完成Gizmoball专题所需要的软件(像是Java Applets)。这些连结也提供了如何使用的指导。
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Tools/index.htm
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4. 本月的科技小百科
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自从9月30日麻省理工开放式课程先期计划公开使用后，我们就不断地收到询问关于课程 8.02: 2002秋季课程：电力与磁力：科技辅助互动学习 / 物理工作室计划中的Java Webstart 应用。Java Webstart是一种在Java Framework中可执行完整应用程式的技术并提供跨平台的能力。每个想要观看在课程 8.02中的概念模拟的使用者必须决定是否要在自己的计算机上执行这个程式。想要观看模拟，请到：
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-Magnetism--TEAL-Studio-Physics-ProjectFall2002/StudyMaterials/detail/tealsim.htm
在这个网页中，你会找到下载Webstart的网站连结。
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5. 一个常见问题
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问：我能够如何利用麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”的教材？
麻省理工学院开放式课程计划所隐含的意义是要让麻省理工学院课程所使用的教材能够免费且开放地提供其它人使用在非商业性的教育活动中。在麻省理工学院开放式课程中，麻省理工学院开放任何人使用这些资料，不管是以毫不修改或是进行改编皆可。我们不限制使用者如何修改资料来符合自己的需求。这些教材可以被编辑、翻译、和其它人的资料合并、改变格式或是以其他任何方法修改。不过，麻省理工学院开放式课程的使用者必须配合以下三项要求：
1) 非商业化：麻省理工学院开放式课程开放给任何人使用，但那些对使用这些教育资料收取费用的营利团体例外。
2) 注明出处：所有对于这些资料的使用或是重复利用，包括了改写都必须注明资料来自麻省理工学院，如果原始资料中有教员的名字，也必须注明出自该教员之手。
3)同样分享：任何对麻省理工学院开放式课程原始资料或是改编内容的出版和散布，包括制作电子版、印刷成课堂讲印或是将这些教材置放在网页上，这些行为都必须符合麻省理工学院开放式课程开放这些资料给使用者的同样规范。
我们鼓励教师多利用这些教材来规划教学目标和内容，自学者可以利用这个网站来获得自习的教材或是补充的资料。
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: January 2003
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The January 2003 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. MIT OCW Pilot Redesigned Based on User Feedback
2. World Reaction
3. Digging Deeper: Course 6.170
4. Technology Tip of the Month
5. A Frequently Asked Question
1. MIT OCW Pilot Redesigned Based on User Feedback
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An improved version of the MIT OpenCourseWare Web
site was released to the public on January 15, improving
the usability and navigation of the site for users. The
improvements were based on feedback the MIT OCW Team
has received from users since the opening of the MIT OCW
pilot on September 30, 2002. Users will find a new homepage
for the pilot site, an improved "Help" section, and a new page,
"World Reaction" which shares some of the wonderful messages
MIT OCW has received since the opening of the pilot site last fall.
In addition, 18 MIT subjects were added to the MIT OCW Web
site on December 17, 2002, including new offerings Anthropology,
Comparative Media Studies, History, Literature, Materials
Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering. See the
complete list of MIT OCW courses at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
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2. World Reaction
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Three months into the pilot phase of MIT's OpenCourseWare
initiative, early results indicate that the vision articulated by
President Charles M. Vest in April 2001 - to make MIT course
materials available on the Web, free of charge, to any user
anywhere in the world - is a noble and achievable aim. Find
out what our users - a worldwide community of educators,
students and self-learners - and the world media are saying
about MIT OCW by visiting our "World Reaction" pages:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/worldreaction.htm
Also:
Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology choisit la gratuité sur le Web
Le Monde, October 21, 2002
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3416--295113-,00.html
MIT offers courses for free on the Web
Computerworld, October 11, 2002
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2002/story/0,11280,75085,00.html
All the World's an MIT Campus
Wired.com, October 4, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,55507,00.html
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3. Digging Deeper: Course 6.170
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Each month, The MIT OpenCourseWare Update will offer
subscribers a guide to one particular subject site offered
as part of the MIT OCW pilot. This month, we delve deeper
into "Course 6.170: Laboratory in Software Engineering,"
which you will find on the MIT OCW Web site at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/CourseHome/index.htm
In Course 6.170, MIT students work in teams to write a
software program that will create Gizmoball a version of
pinball, an arcade game. The player controls a set of flippers
that can bat at the ball as it falls. The version of Gizmoball
included on the site was created by a team of MIT students:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Projects/index.htm#overview
Click on "Lecture Notes" in the left-hand Navigation Bar. The
Lecture Notes for this course exist in PDF form - click on any
PDF to see samples of the course lecture notes:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/LectureNotes/index.htm
Click on "Projects" to find instructions for how to make Gizmoball.
Click on "Documenting a Software System" to discover a good
lesson for budding software programmers: A poorly documented
system is not worth much, however well it may have once worked:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Projects/index.htm
Click to the "Tools" section, to discover the software needed to
complete the Gizmoball project (such as Java applets). Links
are also provided to tutorials on how to use the tools:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-170Laboratory-in-Software-EngineeringFall2001/Tools/index.htm
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4. Technology Tip of the Month
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Since the MIT OCW pilot site opened to the public on September
30, we have received many inquiries about the Java Webstart
application included in "Course 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism:
TEAL/Studio Physics Project." Java WebStart is a technology that
runs full-featured applications in a Java framework, while offering
cross-platform compatibility. Each user who would like to view
the concept simulations in Course 8.02 must decide if they want
to run the program on their computer. View the simulations at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-Magnetism--TEAL-Studio-Physics-ProjectFall2002/StudyMaterials/detail/tealsim.htm
On this MIT OCW page, you will find a link to the Java Webstart
download site.
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5. A Frequently Asked Question
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Q. What uses of MIT OCW materials are allowed?
The underlying purpose of MIT OpenCourseware is to make
course materials used in MIT courses freely and openly
available to others for non-commercial educational purposes.
Through MIT OCW, MIT grants the right to anyone to use
the materials, either "as is," or in a modified form. There is no
restriction on how a user can modify the materials for the
user's purpose. Materials may be edited, translated,
combined with someone else's materials, reformatted,
or changed in any other way. However, there are three
requirements that an MIT OCW user must meet to use
the materials:
1) Non-commercial: The use must be non-commercial.
2) Attribution: Any and all use or reuse of the material,
including use of derivative works (new materials that
incorporate or draw on the original materials), must be
attributed to MIT and, if a faculty member's name is
associated with the material, to that person as well.
3) Share alike (aka "copyleft"): Any publication or distribution
of original or derivative works, including production of electronic
or printed class materials or placement of materials on a Web
site, must offer the works freely and openly to others under the
same terms MIT OCW makes the works available to users.
Educators are encouraged to utilize the materials for curriculum
development, and self-learners are encouraged to draw upon
the materials for self-study or supplementary use.
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