MIT OpenCourseWare

2006年8月号电子报

翻译:姜凯文(kelvin.chiang@maaconsultants.com,国立中兴大学土木工程研究所大地组硕士,亚新工程顾问公司系统工程师)
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:2006年8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 2006年7月号 内容:
1. 新课程上线了
2. 课程更新
3. 盒装的开放式课程
4. 开放式课程计划联合入口网站
5. 您的赞助能使开放式课程永续经营

1.新课程上线了
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麻省理工开放式课程欣喜地宣布有11门新的课程加入了2006年秋季最新的课程发表。我们所提供的自由使用教材的课程总数已超过1400门,包含下列最新发表的部份:
在阅览麻省理工学院开放式课程所有课程列表时,看到红色的NEW就代表着新近发布的课程。


2.课程的更新
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近几个月有许多的使用者向我们询问有关找寻“消失了”的课程。其实并没有任何课程从网站上被移除,但已有超过225门课程被更新了。麻省理工开放式课程开始将一些较旧的课程归档并以2005年春季后的更新课程(以较新的年份与项目)加以取代。某些课程提供了额外的教学与学习上的资源,而某些则是在教学与方法上已有相当大的差别。
最近更新的课程有:
使用者或许曾将有兴趣的课程加到“我的最爱”的书签中,若书签连结已失效,那是因为课程被更新了并且有新的网址,而非课程下架。请参阅完整的课程更新列表在http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/updatedcourses.htm


3.盒装的开放式课程
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麻省理工学院正在寻找非洲的教育教构,可提供架设麻省理工开放式课程网站在当地的复制版本或是镜射网站,做为麻省理工的“盒装的开放式课程”专案的一部份。镜射网站只需提供当地有效的网络连结,以避免使用昂贵又不见得可靠的网际网络需求。

麻省理工的“盒装的开放式课程”专案对非洲的教育机构是完全免费的。每一套包含了一份完整的麻省理工开放式课程网站的复制与一个装有实用工具程式与教材的外接式硬碟。有兴趣的教育机构请联络麻省理工开放式课程的对外拓展处(External Outreach Liaison),电子邮件地址为: farnaz@mit.edu


4.开放式课程计划联合入口网站
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现在已有超过50个教育机构共同分享在开放式课程计划的教材,开放式课程计划联合入口网站最近公布了联合入口网站测试版本,使得教材的利用与各种模式的选用更为便利。在网站中,使用者与教学者能够:


对于电子报的订户将会收到对于初探该网站的讯息,我们请求您对该网站的可用性、设计与其他想法进行检视并将想法与意见回馈寄回给我们。非常感谢您的意见回馈
开放式课程计划联合组织是由世界各地超过100 个高等教育机构与相关组织的研究合作,利用分享的模式,建立一个兼具广度和深度的开放式教育内容实体。开放式课程计划联合组织的使命是透过开放式课程计划来推动全世界的教育和使人们都能使用。



5.您的赞助能使开放式课程永续经营
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麻省理工学院的教授群将其教材供全世界免费与开放使用,但是维护这些课程以及改善麻省理工开放式课程以符合各式不同的使用者是须要成本的。因此,我们需要各位使用者的慷慨捐赠来维持麻省理工开放式课程的运作。现在我们在每一个网页的上方提供 “赞助麻省理工开放式课程”的快速连结。

GIVE to MIT OCW.

按下快速连结的按钮,您将发现赞助麻省理工开放式课程是相当简单的,而且透过 “赞助麻省理工学院”网站对麻省理工开放式课程给予财务上的支援是安全无虞的方式。麻省理工开放式课程将会坚持做为免费与自由使用的数位出版品,但无论如何,您的赞助不论是50元、100元甚至是500元都将支持我们继续提供高品质的麻省理工学院课程教材的发布。


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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: August 2006

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce the early publication of 11 new courses as part of our Fall 2006 course publication cycle. We now offer open access to the educational materials from more than 1400 courses, including the following new courses:
3.21 - Kinetic Processes in Materials, Spring 2006-Materials Science and Engineering
STS.062J/21A.344J - Drugs, Politics, and Culture, Spring 2006 - Science, Technology and Society

When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate newly published materials.


2. Updated Courses
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Several users have contacted us in recent months searching for "missing" courses. In fact, there are no courses that have been removed from the MIT OCW Web site, but more than 225 have been updated. MIT OCW began archiving some of its older courses and replacing them with updated versions of those courses in the spring of 2005 (with new years and terms). Some of the courses are substantially different in teaching methodology, while some now offer additional teaching and learning resources.

The latest updated courses include:
12.740 - Paleoceanography, Spring 2006 - Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Users may have bookmarked their favorite courses on the MIT OCW site. If those bookmarks no longer work, it is because that course has been updated and has a new Web address, not because we took the course down. Please see the complete list of updated courses at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/updatedcourses.htm.


3. OCW in a Box
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MIT OCW is looking for African educational institutions to host local copies, or mirror sites, of the MIT OCW materials, as part of the MIT OCW in a Box program. Mirror sites need only local network connectivity to be effective, bypassing the need for an Internet connection, which can be costly and unreliable in many parts of Africa.

MIT OCW in a Box packages are available free of charge to African educational institutions. Each Box includes a complete copy of the MIT OCW site as well as supplementary tools and materials provided on an external hard drive. Interested institutions should contact Farnaz Haghseta, MIT OCW External Outreach Liaison, at farnaz@mit.edu.



4. OpenCourseWare Consortium Portal Portal
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With more than 50 institutions now sharing course materials in the OpenCourseWare format, the OCW Consortium recently released a beta version of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Web portal to facilitate use of materials and further adoption of the model by other schools. At this site, users and educators can:

Subscribers to this email newsletter are receiving the first look at this Web site and we ask you to check it out and send us any thoughts or feedback you might have about the site's usability, design, and other thoughts. Your feedback will be most appreciated.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.


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In offering free and open access to MIT courses, the MIT faculty are giving their educational materials to the world. But maintaining these courses, and evolving MIT OCW to meet the needs of our diverse user audience, has its costs. Thus, we depend on the generosity of users to sustain the MIT OCW project long term. We now offer a quick link to the Donating to MIT OCW section on every page on the MIT OCW Web site. Look for the following button at the top of every page:


Hit this button, and you will find that giving your gift to MIT OCW is easy, and that the Giving to MIT Web site is a safe and secure way to financially support MIT OCW. MIT OCW will always be a free and open digital publication, however, your $50, $100, or $500 donation will enable us to continue to offer a high-quality publication of MIT's course materials.

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