MIT OpenCourseWare

2006年7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7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. 以工程设计计算机教学系统EDICS讲授基本工程学
2. 我的学校如何才能加入开放式课程计划联盟?
3. 你的赞助能使麻省理工开放式课程永续经营

1.以工程设计计算机教学系统EDICS讲授基本工程学
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麻省理工开放式课程计划非常兴奋地宣布在网站上发行了一个独特的教学与学习工具。我们现将公开免费使用工程设计计算机教学系统EDICS。
工程设计计算机教学系统EDICS是一个线上的互动式多媒体程式,让仅有些许工程背景的学生透过文字、图形、动画、示意图与影音片段来学习支承、圆柱体、轴/转轴、绘图、扣件/连结、传动装置及材料等主题。
现在透过麻省理工开放式课程计划将(现已使用在美国的高中及大学中,并扩及全世界)公开使用。想近一步了解工程设计计算机教学系统EDICS的话,请造访:http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/edics/index.htm
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我的学校如何才能加入开放式课程计划联盟?
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开放式课程计划联盟鼓励全世界的教育机构来建立开放式课程计划。倘若您的教育机构有这样的提议,联盟可以提供协助。在开放式课程计划联合入口网站中已收集并整理出建置初期开放式课程的经验,同时也提供个别化的谘询来协助开展您的计划。
在开放式课程计划联合入口网站中,您可以找到以下的相关资讯:
同样的,在开放式课程计划联合入口网站中,可以找到全世界所有现行的开放式课程计划名册-到2006年7月20日为止共有51个计划-以及所有参与开放式课程计划联盟的现行成员名册。若要对您的开放式课程计划进一步的规划时,请联络我们:feedback@ocwconsortium.org



3.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: July 2006

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The July 2006 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. EDICS Program Teaches Basics of Engineering
2. How Can My University Join the OpenCourseWare Consortium?
3. Your Gift Sustains MIT OCW Long-Term


1. EDICS Program Teaches Basics of Engineering
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MIT OCW is pleased to announce the publication of a unique teaching and learning tool on the Web site. We now offer open access to the Engineering Design Instructional Computer System (EDICS).

EDICS is an online, interactive, multimedia program that allows students with little background in engineering to learn about topics such as bearings, cylinders, shafts/rotors, drawing, fastening/joining, transmissions, and materials through text, graphics, animations, diagrams, and video and audio clips.

EDICS (which is now in use at high schools and universities in the United States, and around the world), is now openly available through MIT OCW. To discover more about the EDICS program, visit http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/edics/index.htm.


2. How Can My Institution Join the OpenCourseWare Consortium?
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium encourages the creation of OpenCourseWare projects at institutions around the world. If you are considering proposing an OCW project at your institution, the Consortium can help. We've collected and distilled our experiences in creating OCW initiatives on the OpenCourseWare Consortium Web portal, and we can provide some individualized consulting to help get your project off the ground

On the Consortium Web portal, you will find information related to:
     * Making the Case
     * Intellectual Property and Licensing
     * Organization
     * Publication Process
     * Technology
     * Communication and Evaluation

Also on the OCW Consortium Web portal, find a listing of all the current OCW projects from around the world -- 51 in all through July 20, 2006 -- and a list of all current members of the OCW Consortium. For further assistance in planning your OpenCourseWare project, please contact us at feedback@ocwconsortium.org.

3. Your Gift Sustains OCW Long-Term
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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:

GIVE to MIT OCW.

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.