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年三月
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年三月号内容：
1. 发布新课程
2. 约翰．霍普斯金公共卫生学院的开放式课程计划
3. 犹他州立大学的开放式课程计划
4. 一个常见问题
1. 发布新课程
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“麻省理工开放式课程”(MIT OCW) 欣喜地宣布有175个新课程即将在下个月发布，届时在麻省理工开放式课程的网站上的课程总数将推升到1100门课程。
对那些在过去六个月中为麻省理工开放式课程工作的麻省理工学院图书馆、麻省理工学院各系所的主任，以及最重要的麻省理工学院卓越的教授们来说，2005年春季课程的发布代表着一个极富意义的里程碑，将近有三分之二的教授们已经自愿地参与麻省理工开放式课程，而我们也深知若没有教授们对学校使命的贡献以及藉由开放式课程开放分享教材的信任，这个整个计划将无以为继。
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.约翰．霍普斯金公共卫生学院的开放式课程计划
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麻省理工学院开放式课程及“开放式课程”的观念是大规模的知识开放运动的一部份，这运动是促使能够免费与无限制地接触在教育机构中使用的主要教材。在此我们也非常兴奋地要告诉电子报的订阅者，又有两个新的开放式课程计划分别在约翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共卫生学院与犹他州立大学成立了。
位于马里兰州巴的摩尔的约翰．霍普斯金．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，为全球人类生命的防卫部署其知识与专业技术及教育明日的科学家与实践者。
在2005年2月，JHSPH在其开放性课程的先期计划中开放了两门课程而且至今已再增加了两门，到2005年4月预定会再增加六门课程。就如同保护健康免受疾病与残疾的侵袭为其使命的一部份，JHSPH认为提供平等与开放接触有关公共卫生及其可能的解决方案的知识与资讯是其道义上的责任。公共卫生的胜利拯救的是无数的个人。约翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共卫生学院对自学者在搜寻正规教育、在JHSPH学院或其它学院学生使用的补充教材与教授所规划的课程上以及对公共卫生实践者的再学习提供了协助。
请造访在http://ocw.jhsph.edu的约翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共卫生学院的开放性课程网站来查阅已开放的课程：2005 保健的成本有效性分析、、2005 家庭计划政策与方案、2004年冬季课程：免疫方案的问题解答。（朱注：我们的翻译先导网站也即将上线）。
3.犹他州立大学的开放式课程计划
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犹他州立大学是美国以学生为中心，由国家捐地与空间所成立的优秀大学。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，在纽约时报、芝加哥论坛报、高等教育报以及今日美国等，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、发现与承诺来服务人群。它的诞生忠于犹他大学的校训：学术优先。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。
犹他州立大学的开放式课程的先期计划于2005年2月开放了6个科系中的8门课程，请造访在http://ocw.usu.edu的犹他州立大学的先期计划来查阅哪些课程已经上线，包含了文化人类学、生化工程、灌溉输送与控制系统、喷洒与滴流灌溉、有害的废弃土壤管理、犹他州的历史、了解线上互动以及对非英语系使用者的计算机辅助语言：西班牙文。（朱注：由于犹他大学使用动态网页的技术，所以我们正在克服技术难度与其同步，预料将会比约翰霍普金斯大学晚上线。）。
4.一个常见问题
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问：我要如何和麻省理工学院的某个教师联络？
答：麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”的目的是在网络上出版麻省理工学院的课程教材，不是成为与麻省理工学院教师之间的互动媒体。这可以提供麻省理工学院的教材，但并不是麻省理工学院教育的替代品。在麻省理工学院最基本的学习要件就是教师和学生在课堂上或是学生与学生在校园内的互动。麻省理工学院“开放式课程网页”并不提供网页的造访者直接与教师们联络的管道。相关教材的问题将会被转给负责该门课程的教师参考。不过，由于我们所收到的电子邮件数量惊人，收信者不见得会回覆所有的信件。
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: March 2005
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The March 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Published
2. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
3. Utah State University OCW
4. A Frequently Asked Question
1. New Courses Published
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce that 175 new courses will be published over the course of the next month, which will push the total number of courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu to almost 1100.
This Spring 2005 publication represents a significant achievement for people across the Institute who worked with the MIT OCW Team over the last six months, including the MIT Libraries, MIT's department heads, and most importantly, MIT's remarkable faculty. Close to two-thirds of MIT's faculty have now voluntarily participated in MIT OCW, and we know that MIT OCW would not be succeeding were it not for the faculty's dedication to MIT's institutional mission and belief in the promise of openly sharing their materials through OpenCourseWare.
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:
- Course 1.782 - Environmental Engineering MEng Project, Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
- Course 6.801 - Machine Vision, Fall 2004
- Course 7.343 - Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Human Disease, Fall 2004
- Course 7.344 - RNA Interference: A New Tool for Genetic Analysis and Therapeutics, Fall 2004
- Course 8.511 - Theory of Solids, Fall 2004
- Course 11.368 - Environmental Justice, Fall 2004
- Course 12.864 - Inference from Data and Models, Spring 2004
- Course 14.06 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Spring 2004
- Course 15.778 - Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services, Summer 2004
- Course 15.974 - Practical Leadership, Fall 2004
- Course 17.315 - Comparative Health Policy, Fall 2004
- Course 17.428 - American Foreign Policy: Theory and Method, Fall 2004
- Course 17.460 - Defense Politics, Fall 2002
- Course 17.484 - Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine, Fall 2004
- Course 17.952 - Great Power Military Intervention, Spring 2004
- Course 17.953 - U.S. Military Budget and Force Planning, Fall 2004
- Course 17.960 - Foundations of Political Science, Fall 2004
- Course 18.305 - Advanced Analytic Methods in Science and Engineering, Fall 2004
- Course 18.315 - Combinatorial Theory: Hyperplane Arrangements, Fall 2004
- Course 18.338J - Infinite Random Matrix Theory, Fall 2004
- Course 18.965 - Geometry of Manifolds, Fall 2004
- Course 21A.342 - Environmental Struggles, Fall 2004
- Course 21F.705 - Oral Communication in Spanish, Spring 2004
- Course 21F.712 - Spanish Conversation and Composition, Fall 2003
- Course 21H.301 - The Ancient World: Greece, Fall 2004
- Course 21L.430 - Popular Narrative: Masterminds, Fall 2004
- Course 21L.702 - Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America, Fall 2004
2. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
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MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept is a part of the larger open knowledge movement that promotes free and unrestricted access to the primary teaching materials for courses taught at educational institutions. So it is with great excitement that we are pleased to tell subscribers about the creation of two new OCW projects, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Utah State University.
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.
In February, JHSPH opened its pilot OCW project with two courses and has since added two more; six more courses are scheduled for publication in April 2005. As part of its mission to protect health and prevent disease and disability, JHSPH feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions. At the heart of every public health triumph is an individual. JHSPH OCW provides encouragement for the self-learner to seek formal education, complementary materials for the student at JHSPH or another institution, information with which faculty can plan a course curriculum, and continuing education for the public health practitioner.
Visit JHSPH OCW at http://ocw.jhsph.edu to see the courses currently available, Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care, Spring 2005, Statistical Reasoning I, Fall 2004, Family Planning Policies and Programs, Spring 2005, and Problem Solving for Immunization Programs, Winter 2004.
3. 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 scenic Logan City, UT, USU faculty receive national recognition for their teaching and research in publications such as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and USA Today. USU can count four Goldwater Scholars and a Rhodes Scholar among its graduates in recent years.
USU OCW supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. It is true to USU's guiding principle that academics come first. As USU enters the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare enable the University to more fully accomplish its land-grant mission.
The USU OCW pilot project opened in February with eight courses from six disciplines. Visit the USU pilot project at http://ocw.usu.edu to discover what courses are available, including Cultural Anthropology, Biochemical Engineering, Irrigation Conveyance and Control Systems, Sprinkle and Trickle Irrigation, Soil-based Hazardous Waste Management, History of Utah, Understanding Online Interaction, and Computer Assisted Language For Non-English Speakers: Spanish.
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: How do I contact a specific member of the MIT Faculty?
ANSWER: MIT OCW is intended as a publication of MIT course materials on the Web, and not as an interactive experience with MIT faculty. It provides the content of, but is not a substitute for, an MIT education. The most fundamental cornerstone of the learning process at MIT is the interaction between faculty and students in the classroom, and among students themselves on campus. MIT OCW does not offer visitors to the Web site the opportunity for direct contact with MIT faculty. Inquiries related to specific course materials will be forwarded to the MIT faculty member associated with that course for their consideration. However, due to the tremendous volume of email inquiries received, it is unlikely he or she will answer all emails.
