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2005年四月号电子报

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：2005年四月

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 2005年四月号内容：
1. 麻省理工学院发布新课程，课程总数已达1100门
2. 一个常见问题
3. 约翰．霍普金斯公共卫生学院的开放式课程计划
4. 犹他州立大学的开放式课程计划

1. 麻省理工学院发布新课程，课程总数已达1100门
（朱注：由于MIT方面课程尚在持续变动中，因此OOPS网站尚未更新）
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麻省理工学院“开放式课程”欣喜地宣布在四月份有175个新课程发布，目前线上共有1,100门课程在麻省理工开放式课程的网站(http://ocw.mit.edu)。

我们欣喜地请您注意这以下的新课程，当您在阅览麻省理工学院开放式课程所有课程列表时，红色的NEW就代表着是最近发布的课程：

2. 一个常见问题

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问：什么是“IAP”课程？

答：所谓的自由活动月是麻省理工学院在每年一月的第一周到月底所举办的一种四周的特别课程，在过去的三十年中，IAP已提供给麻省理工学院各个社群的成员(学生、教授、职员与校友)一个独特的机会去组织、发起与参与这些多样化的活动，包含了如何集会、建立论坛、体育活动、系列演讲、电影欣赏、旅游与竞赛。对学生与教授们来说，IAP也提供了学习与教学上的创造力，他们鼓励学生安排自己的教育议题、进行一些独立的专题研究、与教授面谈、或者是进行在一般学期中不可能安排的选择。教授们可自由地介绍一些像IAP一般的创新教育性的实验。几个教育性的实验已经以完整的课程公布在麻省理工开放性课程的网站上：例如5.301 2004一月(自由活动月)课程：化学实验技巧包含了一系列的化学实验指导的录影，称为数位实验技巧手册(DLTM)，做为这门课程以及麻省理工学院化学系所开的其他课程的补充教材。更详细的资料请到麻省理工学院自由活动课程。

3. 约翰．霍普金斯公共卫生学院的开放式课程计划

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位于马里兰州巴的摩尔的约翰．霍普金斯．彭博公共卫生学院(JHSPH)是世界知名的公共卫生领域的国际权威。JHSPH每天藉由开创性的新研究来确保世界上数以百万的人们免于疾病与伤害，为防护全球人类生命而散布其知识与专业技术及教育明日的科学家与实践者。约翰．霍普金斯公共卫生学院的开放式课程计划提供了学校最热门课程的教材给使用者阅览。

4. 犹他州立大学的开放式课程计划

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犹他州立大学 (USU)是美国以学生为中心，由国家捐地所成立的优秀大学。座落在风景优美的犹他州罗根市，犹他州立大学教授们的教学与发表的研究都获得了全国的认同。犹他州立大学的校友在最近几年有四位获选为Goldwater学者，一位获选为Rhodes学者。犹他州立大学的开放式课程计划实践了犹他州立大学的使命，透过学习、发现与参与来服务人群。在犹他州立大学迈向21世纪时，开放式课程计划的服务使她能更彻底地完成其身为土地拨赠法案学校的使命。

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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: April 2005

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users

and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare

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The April 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:

1. New MIT Courses Brings Total to 1100

2. A Frequently Asked Question

3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

4. Utah State University OCW

1. New MIT Courses Brings Total to 1100

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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce that with the publication of 175 new courses in the month of April, there are now 1100 total courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu.

We are pleased to call your attention to the following new MIT courses. When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate courses recently published:

2. A Frequently Asked Question

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QUESTION: What is an "IAP" course?

ANSWER: The Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a special four-week term held each year at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. For more than three decades, IAP has provided members of the MIT community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) with a unique opportunity to organize, sponsor, and participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, and contests. For students and faculty, IAP also offers opportunities for creativity in teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to set their own educational agendas, pursue independent projects, meet with faculty, or pursue many other options not possible during the semester. Faculty are free to introduce innovative educational experiments as IAP activities. Several of these educational experiments are published on the MIT OCW Web site as complete courses: Course 5.301 Chemistry Laboratory Techniques, IAP 2004, for example, includes a series of chemistry laboratory instructional videos called the Digital Lab Techniques Manual (DLTM) that are used as supplementary material for this course, as well as other courses offered by the MIT Department of Chemistry. Read more about MIT's Independent Activities Period.

3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD, is world-renowned as a leading international authority on public health. Every day, JHSPH works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in the field and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in the global defense of human life. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Opencourseware project provides access to the school's most popular courses.

4. Utah State University OCW

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Utah State University (USU) is one of the nation's premier student-centered land-grant and space-grant universities. Located in Logan City, UT, USU faculty receive national recognition for their teaching and research, and USU can count four Goldwater Scholars and a Rhodes Scholar among its graduates in recent years. USU Opencourseware supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. As USU enters the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare enable the University to more fully accomplish its land-grant mission.