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2005年四月號電子報

翻譯：姜凱文(簡介並寄信) 修正校定：朱學恒

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麻省理工「開放式課程」計畫更新日期：2005年四月

每月發行給麻省理工「開放式課程」計畫的使用者及夥伴的電子報
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麻省理工開放式課程電子報 2005年四月號內容：
1. 麻省理工學院發佈新課程，課程總數已達1100門
2. 一個常見問題
3. 約翰．霍普金斯公共衛生學院的開放式課程計畫
4. 猶他州立大學的開放式課程計畫

1. 麻省理工學院發佈新課程，課程總數已達1100門
（朱註：由於MIT方面課程尚在持續變動中，因此OOPS網站尚未更新）
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麻省理工學院「開放式課程」欣喜地宣佈在四月份有175個新課程發佈，目前線上共有1,100門課程在麻省理工開放式課程的網站(http://ocw.mit.edu)。

我們欣喜地請您注意這以下的新課程，當您在閱覽麻省理工學院開放式課程所有課程列表時，紅色的NEW就代表著是最近發佈的課程：

2. 一個常見問題

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問：什麼是「IAP」課程？

答：所謂的自由活動月是麻省理工學院在每年一月的第一週到月底所舉辦的一種四週的特別課程，在過去的三十年中，IAP已提供給麻省理工學院各個社群的成員(學生、教授、職員與校友)一個獨特的機會去組織、發起與參與這些多樣化的活動，包含了如何集會、建立論壇、體育活動、系列演講、電影欣賞、旅遊與競賽。對學生與教授們來說，IAP也提供了學習與教學上的創造力，他們鼓勵學生安排自己的教育議題、進行一些獨立的專題研究、與教授面談、或者是進行在一般學期中不可能安排的選擇。教授們可自由地介紹一些像IAP一般的創新教育性的實驗。幾個教育性的實驗已經以完整的課程公佈在麻省理工開放性課程的網站上：例如5.301 2004一月(自由活動月)課程：化學實驗技巧包含了一系列的化學實驗指導的錄影，稱為數位實驗技巧手冊(DLTM)，做為這門課程以及麻省理工學院化學系所開的其他課程的補充教材。更詳細的資料請到麻省理工學院自由活動課程。

3. 約翰．霍普金斯公共衛生學院的開放式課程計畫

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位於馬里蘭州巴的摩爾的約翰．霍普金斯．彭博公共衛生學院(JHSPH)是世界知名的公共衛生領域的國際權威。JHSPH每天藉由開創性的新研究來確保世界上數以百萬的人們免於疾病與傷害，為防護全球人類生命而散佈其知識與專業技術及教育明日的科學家與實踐者。約翰．霍普金斯公共衛生學院的開放式課程計畫提供了學校最熱門課程的教材給使用者閱覽。

4. 猶他州立大學的開放式課程計畫

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猶他州立大學 (USU)是美國以學生為中心，由國家捐地所成立的優秀大學。座落在風景優美的猶他州羅根市，猶他州立大學教授們的教學與發表的研究都獲得了全國的認同。猶他州立大學的校友在最近幾年有四位獲選為Goldwater學者，一位獲選為Rhodes學者。猶他州立大學的開放式課程計畫實踐了猶他州立大學的使命，透過學習、發現與參與來服務人群。在猶他州立大學邁向21世紀時，開放式課程計畫的服務使她能更徹底地完成其身為土地撥贈法案學校的使命。

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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.