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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: April 2006
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The April 2006 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is
pleased to announce the publication of 30 new courses as part of our
Spring 2006 course publication cycle. We now offer open access to the
educational materials from 1320 courses total, including the following
new courses:
- BE.450 -- Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology, Spring
2005
- CMS.950 -- Workshop I, Fall 2005
- HST.930J -- Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech, Fall
2005
- 3.034 -- Organic and Biomaterials Chemistry, Fall 2005
- 3.044 -- Materials Processing, Spring 2005
- 4.175 -- Case Studies in City Form, Fall 2005
- 4.501 -- Architectural Construction and Computation, Fall 2005
- 4.510 -- Digital Design Fabrication, Fall 2005
- 4.520 -- Computational Design I: Theory and Applications, Fall
2005
- 5.04 -- Principles of Inorganic Chemistry II, Fall 2004
- 10.805J -- Technology, Law, and the Working Environment,
Spring 2006
- 11.360 -- Community Growth and Land Use Planning, Fall
2005
- 11.370 -- Brownfields Policy and Practice, Fall 2005
- 11.601 -- Introduction to Environmental Policy and Regulation,
Fall 2005
- 12.085 -- Seminar in Environmental Science, Fall 2005
- 12.103 -- Strange Bedfellows: Science and Environmental
Policy, Fall 2005
- 14.30 -- Introduction to Statistical Method in Economics, Fall
2004
- 17.148 -- Political Economy of Globalization, Spring 2006
- 17.908 -- Reading Seminar in Social Science: Intelligence and
National Security, Fall 2005
- 18.700 -- Linear Algebra, Fall 2005
- 18.904 -- Seminar in Topology, Fall 2005
- 21A.260 -- Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses, Fall 2005
- 21F.067 -- Cultural Performances of Asia, Fall 2005
- 21F.506 -- Advanced Japanese II, Spring 2005
- 21F.717 -- Introduction to Spanish Culture, Fall 2004
- 21H.116J -- The Civil War and Reconstruction, Fall 2005
- 21H.443 -- European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries,
Spring 2006
- 22.921 -- Nuclear Power Plant Dynamics and Control, January
(IAP) 2006
- 22.A09 -- Career Options for Biomedical Research, Fall
2005
- 24.221 -- Metaphysics, Fall 2005
When looking at the
complete MIT
OCW Course List, look for the red
NEW to indicate newly published materials. MIT OCW will
publish 150 new, and 75 more updated courses, by the end of April
2006.
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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 100 have been
updated. Starting in Spring 2005 (and in each publication cycle since,
including the current Spring 2006 pub cycle), MIT OCW began archiving
some of its older courses and replacing them with updated versions of
those courses (with new years and terms). Some of the courses are
substantially different in teaching methodology, while some now offer
additional teaching and learning resources.
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. 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:
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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ParisTech is a
collective entity that includes 11 of the most prestigious engineering
schools in France. Each of its member institutions is known as the
best in France in its particular field. The research and teaching at
the 11 institutions is complementary and cover virtually all sectors
of the various engineering sciences. We encouraged users to visit the
ParisTech OpenCourseWare project at
http://paristech.polytechnique.fr/catalogue/?langue=EN
5. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
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Tufts
University, with campuses in Boston, Medford, Somerville and
Grafton, MA, has a global reputation for academic and research
excellence, and innovation. The
Tufts
OpenCourseWare project demonstrate Tufts' strength in the life
sciences, as well a multi-disciplinary approach, an international
perspective, and an underlying ethic of service to the university's
local, national, and international communities.
7. Utah State University OCW
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In addition, for those institutions interested in implementing
their own "OpenCourseWare" project, Utah State University's
Center for Open Sustainable
Learning has developed eduCommons, an OpenCourseWare Management
System designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects such
as MIT OCW and USU OCW. For more information on eduCommons, go to
http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/
8. China Quality OCW (CNQOCW)
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The leading nine universities in Japan -- Hokkaido University,
Keio University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, Nagoya
University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the
University of Tokyo, and Waseda University -- have formed the
Japan OCW Alliance. These six
universities now offer open access to more than 100 courses, in both
English and
Japanese.
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Inspired by the MIT OCW initiative, the
Fulbright School Economics
Teaching Program (FETP) in Vietnam launched
FETP OpenCourseWare in
2003, the first "opencourseware" project to launch after MIT
OCW opened in September 2002. The Fulbright School participates with
other academic institutions in Vietnam to promote the use of
innovative long-distance learning activities.
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