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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: December 2005

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The December 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Now Available
2. Email Newsletter User Survey
3. ParisTech OCW
4. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
5. Tufts University OCW
6. Utah State University OCW
7. China Quality OCW
8. Japan OCW Alliance
9. FETP OCW in Vietnam


1. New Courses Now Available
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce the publication of new courses as part of our Fall 2005 course publication cycle. We now offer open access to the educational materials from 1259 courses total, including the following new courses:

• 3.320 - Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials, Spring 2005
• 12.510 - Introduction to Seismology, Spring 2005
• 14.33 - Economics Research and Communication, Spring 2005
• 14.475 - Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure, Spring 2005
• 15.316 - Building and Leading Effective Teams, Summer 2005
• 15.967 - Managing and Volunteering in the Non-Profit Sector, Spring 2005
• 16.892 - Space System Architecture and Design, Fall 2004
• 17.436 - Territorial Conflict, Fall 2004
• 17.582 - Civil War, Spring 2005
• 17.960 - Foundations of Political Science, Spring 2005
• 18.086 - Mathematical Methods for Engineering II, Spring 2005
• 18.312 - Algebraic Combinatorics, Spring 2005
• 21A.348 - Photography and Truth, Spring 2005
• 21A.460J - Medicine, Religion, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, Spring 2005
• 21H.104 - Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History, Fall 2004
• 21H.968J - Nature, Environment, and Empire, Spring 2005
• 21L.705 - Masterworks in American Short Fiction, Fall 2005
• 21W.746 - Humanistic Perspectives in Medicine: From Ancient Greece to Modern America, Spring 2005
• 21W.780 - Communicating in Technical Organizations, Spring 2005
• 22.903 - Photon and Neutron Scattering Spectroscopy and its Applications in Condensed Matter, Spring 2005
• 24.500 - Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Self-Knowledge, Spring 2005
• ESD.801 - Leadership Development, Fall 2004
• ESD.933 - Technology Policy Negotiations and Dispute Resolution, Spring 2005
• SP.401 - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Spring 2005
• STS.429 - Food and Power in the Twentieth Century, Spring 2005

When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate materials published this past Fall. MIT OCW will publish 150 new, and 75 more updated courses, in Spring 2006.


2. Email Newsletter User Survey
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update email newsletter was launched in January 2003 with an initial subscriber list of 4000 MIT OCW users.

That initial subscriber base has grown to more than 37,000 users all across the globe, and continues to grow each month. Now, three years after it was launched, we are developing the next iteration of the newsletter that we hope will better meet the needs of our users. Thus, in January 2006, we will implement a simple and voluntary online survey that will explore user satisfaction with the content, design, and delivery of this newsletter.

Look for a link to the online survey in your email inbox in early January 2006. Your participation, while not required, will be tremendously valuable as we evolve this newsletter to better suit the needs of our global network of subscribers.


3. ParisTech OCW
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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 own field. The research and teaching at the 11 institutions is complementary and cover virtually all sectors of the various engineering sciences.

So it is with great excitement that we announce the launch of the ParisTech OpenCourseWare project. The institutions ("Grandes Ecoles") which have published the ParisTech OCW project include:

• École Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF)
• École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée (ENPC)
• École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
• École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP)
• École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP)
• École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST)
• École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancé (ENSTA)
• École Polytechnique (EP)
• École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
• Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G)
• École Nationale de Statistique et d'Administration Économique (ENSAE) (associate member)

4. 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. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare project provides access to the school's most popular courses.


5. Tufts University 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.


6. Utah State University OCW
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Utah State University (USU) is one of the nation's premier land-grant and space-grant universities. USU OpenCourseWare supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement.


7. China Quality OCW (CNQOCW)
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China Open Resources for Education (CORE), MIT OCW's Chinese language translation partner, now offers links to more than 450 China Quality OpenCourseWare (CNQOCW) courses for use and sharing in China and globally. In addition, CORE has translated 80 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese, which are available at http://www.core.org.cn/OCW_CN/Global/all-courses.htm


8. Japan OCW Alliance
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The top six universities in Japan -- Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University -- have announced the formation of the Japan OCW Alliance. These six universities now offer open access to more than 100 courses, in both English and Japanese.


9. FETP OCW in Vietnam
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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.