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 2005年一月号内容：
1. 新的使用者功能：麻省理工学院的课程导引
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许多使用者曾与“开放式课程计划”接洽，询问有关麻省理工学院的教学规划，以便让他们可以自行安排自修的课程。为了让使用者能够更进一步利用“开放式课程计划”，我们提供了下列对麻省理工学院的大学部与研究所课程的指引。再一次提醒使用者，下列这些麻省理工学院的课程需求并无法使其获得学位或任何证书的资格。这仅仅是“开放式课程计划”提供给使用者的一种资讯服务。
在这网页中，你可以找到麻省理工学院全部33个学系的列表，以及每一个学习相关学位需求连结的表格—均包含了大学部与研究所。另外，我们也说明了麻省理工学院大学部毕业的条件，以及不同学位的研究生可能要增修的课程。
再一次的提醒使用者，麻省理工学院的“开放式课程计划”并不是一个远距教学的活动，所以使用者不需要注册或登记就能阅读这些教材。上完课后既没有证书也不会授予学位。麻省理工学院的“开放式课程计划”出版学院课程，以达成麻省理工学院教育的动态教室互动计划。
我们希望这个课程导引服务可以帮助使用麻省理工学院的开放式课程的教育界人士、学生以及自我学习者，对于这项新的使用者功能，希望你能随时将你的意见寄给我们。
2. 麻省理工开放式课程对影音课程讲稿的看法
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影音课程对学生来说很有用，但麻省理工学院开放式课程不提供所有课程的上课影片有诸多原因。最主要的问题是经费。压缩和传输影像的科技越来越便宜，但如果从制作的角度来看，如果我们要替915门课程每一门都压缩20个影像课程，恐怕是无法负担的。麻省理工学院开放式课程目前并没有这种储存能力。
我们冀望藉由课程大纲、相关阅读列表与讲稿笔记的提供，给教育工作者及学生在其所选的学科中有一个启发辅助其教学与学习的机会。例如：人们可简单地透过快速的网际网络连线来观赏课程18.06: 线性代数的影像课程，但麻省理工学院开放式课程并不打算成立完整的远距学习资源，她主要是提供麻省理工学院教学时的原始教材。
不过，我们仍然已经为下列课程提供了完整的上课录音或录影文件：
请浏览麻省理工学院开放式课程网站 线上说明中的影音文件说明网页，以获得更多关于影像与声音课程讲稿的讯息。
3. 深度探索：课程 21M.361
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虽然麻省理工学院已是一所众所周知的世界级研究与技术的学校，校中仍有着对艺术与人文研究的珍贵传统。麻省理工学院的人文、艺术与社会科学院(SHASS)，以充满着新观念的活力，吸引了许多全世界最好的教授、学生与研究者。事实上SHASS是麻省理工学院大学部学生的通识教育，提供了在每个领域中做为加强终生学习知识的基础。
在SHASS所提供的13个系所与学程中，音乐与戏剧艺术系给每一层次与资质的学生提供了各种不同的挑战与富有回报的有关音乐的学习机会，包含课程 21M.361：计算机作曲，由Evan Ziporyn教授所开设的课程。
在课程中学生使用计算机及计算机辅助技术做为作曲工具，也就是说用计算机做为作曲的方法以及通往音乐与声音学观念的大道。每个学习单元均包含了一系列简短的作曲专题，专题中会有明确的描述，并指定使用的软件与硬件。这课程包含了现场录音与数位编辑、数位处理、类比声音合成(真实与虚拟)、MIDI编曲以及建立互动环境。麻省理工学院的参与这门课的学生在本课程结束时要完成一个大型的作曲并举行一场公开的音乐会。
课程大纲分成四个单元：声音结构、回馈、建构声音与互动。同时也罗列了推荐读本(包含《计算机音乐：合成、作曲、演奏》，由Charles Dodge与Thomas Jerse所著)、CD及影像来帮助了解本课程所教授的原理。另外，Ziporyn教授编著了11个实验课程来协助声音与作曲的教学。
这门课程已经由麻省理工学院开放课程的合作伙伴Universia.net翻译成西班牙文及a href="http://www.universiabrasil.net/mit/curso.jsp?codcurso=82" target="_blank">葡萄牙文。Universia.net位于马德里，与超过800所位于西班牙、葡萄牙及拉丁美洲大学合作的内容提供者。
4. 一个常见问题
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问：我要怎么知道有哪些课程可以选择？
答：麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”提供了915门麻省理工学院课程的教材。有三种方法来存取这些教材：使用本站每一页都可以看到的左边角落“搜寻”功能。你可以搜寻特定的文字：针对所有课程或是单一课程搜寻某个特别的学门或是理论。要进行进一步搜寻，请利用我们的进阶搜寻系统。
第二种方法则是点选本站每一页右上方的课程列表按钮。这将可以让你浏览目前所有的课程清单，依三十三个麻省理工学院科系作分类。
或者，你也可以以科系分类来观看相关资料。麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”的首页左手边列出了目前有课程上网的科系。就以麻省理工学院的电机工程与计算机科学系为例好了，点选首页左方的电机工程与计算机科学(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)连结，你就可以进入该系所的首页，这会包含了一个参与麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”的课程完整列表，页首还会有对该系所和其教学目的有一段简短的描述。
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: January 2005
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The January 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New User Feature: MIT Curriculum Guide
2. MIT OCW's Approach to Video and Audio
3. Digging Deeper: Course 21M.361
4. A Frequently Asked Question
1. New User Feature: MIT Curriculum Guide
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Many users have contacted MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), asking for information about MIT's curriculum so they would be able to design their own course of self-study. In the interest of improving the user experience with MIT OCW materials, we are now offering a guide to the MIT's undergraduate and graduate curriculumon the MIT OCW Web site.Users are reminded that following these MIT curriculum requirements does not make them eligible to receive a degree or any other sort of certification. This is merely an informational service that MIT OCW is providing for its users.
On this page, you will find a list of all 33 of MIT's academic departments, along with a degree table that offers links to the degree requirements -- both undergraduate and graduate -- for each department. In addition, we provide the graduation requirements for MIT undergraduates, and an explanation of the various degrees MIT graduate students may pursue.
Again, users are reminded thatMIT OCW is not a distance-learning initiative, there is no registration or enrollment process required for users to view course materials.Nor is there a certificate or degree granted upon completion of the materials. MIT OCW is a publication of the course materials that support the dynamic classroom interactions of an MIT education.
We hope this serves as a useful tool for educators, students, and self-learners interacting with the MIT OCW materials. Please feel free to send us your feedback on this new MIT OCW user feature.
2. MIT OCW's Approach to Video and Audio
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Video lectures are useful for users of MIT OCW, and we continue to strategically publish video lectures from select faculty at MIT. But there are several reasons that MIT OCW does not include video in every course. The main concern is cost: While the technology for compressing and storing video is becoming more affordable, it is still not affordable, or feasible from a production standpoint, for us to be compressing 20 video lectures for all 915 of our courses. MIT OCW does not have that kind of storage capacity at this time.
We are hoping that by providing the syllabus, reading lists and lecture notes, we are offering a chance for educators and students to jumpstart their own teaching and learning within their chosen discipline. While the video lectures for Course 18.06: Linear Algebra, for example, are very easy for people with fast Internet connections to watch, MIT OCW is not intended to be a complete distance learning resource, it merely provides the raw materials of an MIT education.
We do, however, offer complete video lecture series for the following courses:
For more information about our video and audio lectures, please visit the new Video and Audio on MIT OCW page in the Help section of our site.
3. Digging Deeper: Course 21M.361
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While MIT is known as a world-class research and technology institution, there is a very rich tradition of the study of the arts and humanities at the school. Charged with the energy of new ideas, the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) attracts many of the world's finest faculty, students, and researchers. SHASS, in fact, is the common denominator of an MIT student's undergraduate education, providing a foundation of knowledge that enhances life-long learning in every field.
Among the 13 departments and programs offered by SHASS is the MIT Music and Theater Arts Section, which offers a variety of challenging and rewarding musical opportunities for students at every level of preparation and talent, including Course 21M.361 -- Composing with Computers, a course taught by Professor Evan Ziporyn.
In this course students use computers and computer-aided technology as compositional tools, that is, as a means to music-making and an avenue to approach musical and acoustic concepts. Each unit of study consists of a series of short composition projects using specific types of hardware and software in clearly delineated ways. This involves live recording and digital editing, digital processing, analog sound synthesis (real and virtual), MIDI sequencing, and building interactive environments. For enrolled MIT students, the course culminates in a large, final composition and a public concert.
The course syllabus is divided into four units: Sound Structures, Feedback, Structuring Sound, and Interaction. There is also a rich list of suggested readings(including Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse), CDs, and video that help illustrate the principles taught in the course. In addition, Professor Ziporyn has compiled 11 labs that help teach students the principles of sound and music composition.
This course has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese through MIT OCW's partnership with Universia.net, a Madrid-based content provider for more than 800 universities in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: How do I find what courses are available?
ANSWER: MIT OCW offers the educational materials from 915 MIT courses. There are three ways to access the materials: Utilize the Search function that can be found in the left-hand corner of every page on the MIT OCW site. Search for specific text, such as certain academic discipline area, across all courses or within just one course. To perform a detailed search, use our Advanced Search.
A second way to see what courses are available is to click on Course List that is listed in the top right-corner navigation of every page on the MIT OCW Web site. This will allow you to view the list of every available course, grouped into the 33 MIT academic departments.
Or, view the courses currently available grouped by MIT department. The departments that have MIT OCW course sites available are listed in the left-hand navigation bar of the MIT OCW homepage. An example would be the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Click on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science link in the left navigation bar on the MIT OCW homepage, and you will go to the department homepage, which includes a complete list of MIT electrical engineering and computer science courses offered, along with a brief description of the department and its curriculum goals.
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