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年三月
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年三月號內容：
1. 發佈新課程
2. 約翰．霍普斯金公共衛生學院的開放式課程計畫
3. 猶他州立大學的開放式課程計畫
4. 一個常見問題
1. 發佈新課程
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「麻省理工開放式課程」(MIT OCW) 欣喜地宣佈有175個新課程即將在下個月發佈，屆時在麻省理工開放式課程的網站上的課程總數將推升到1100門課程。
對那些在過去六個月中為麻省理工開放式課程工作的麻省理工學院圖書館、麻省理工學院各系所的主任，以及最重要的麻省理工學院卓越的教授們來說，2005年春季課程的發佈代表著一個極富意義的里程碑，將近有三分之二的教授們已經自願地參與麻省理工開放式課程，而我們也深知若沒有教授們對學校使命的貢獻以及藉由開放式課程開放分享教材的信任，這個整個計畫將無以為繼。
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.約翰．霍普斯金公共衛生學院的開放式課程計畫
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麻省理工學院開放式課程及「開放式課程」的觀念是大規模的知識開放運動的一部份，這運動是促使能夠免費與無限制地接觸在教育機構中使用的主要教材。在此我們也非常興奮地要告訴電子報的訂閱者，又有兩個新的開放式課程計畫分別在約翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共衛生學院與猶他州立大學成立了。
位於馬里蘭州巴的摩爾的約翰．霍普斯金．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，為全球人類生命的防衛部署其知識與專業技術及教育明日的科學家與實踐者。
在2005年2月，JHSPH在其開放性課程的先期計畫中開放了兩門課程而且至今已再增加了兩門，到2005年4月預定會再增加六門課程。就如同保護健康免受疾病與殘疾的侵襲為其使命的一部份，JHSPH認為提供平等與開放接觸有關公共衛生及其可能的解決方案的知識與資訊是其道義上的責任。公共衛生的勝利拯救的是無數的個人。約翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共衛生學院對自學者在搜尋正規教育、在JHSPH學院或其它學院學生使用的補充教材與教授所規畫的課程上以及對公共衛生實踐者的再學習提供了協助。
請造訪在http://ocw.jhsph.edu的約翰．霍普斯金．彭博公共衛生學院的開放性課程網站來查閱已開放的課程：2005 保健的成本有效性分析、、2005 家庭計畫政策與方案、2004年冬季課程：免疫方案的問題解答。（朱註：我們的翻譯先導網站也即將上線）。
3.猶他州立大學的開放式課程計畫
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猶他州立大學是美國以學生為中心，由國家捐地與空間所成立的優秀大學。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，在紐約時報、芝加哥論壇報、高等教育報以及今日美國等，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、發現與承諾來服務人群。它的誕生忠於猶他大學的校訓：學術優先。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。
猶他州立大學的開放式課程的先期計畫於2005年2月開放了6個科系中的8門課程，請造訪在http://ocw.usu.edu的猶他州立大學的先期計畫來查閱哪些課程已經上線，包含了文化人類學、生化工程、灌溉輸送與控制系統、噴灑與滴流灌溉、有害的廢棄土壤管理、猶他州的歷史、瞭解線上互動以及對非英語系使用者的電腦輔助語言：西班牙文。（朱註：由於猶他大學使用動態網頁的技術，所以我們正在克服技術難度與其同步，預料將會比約翰霍普金斯大學晚上線。）。
4.一個常見問題
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問：我要如何和麻省理工學院的某個教師聯絡？
答：麻省理工學院「開放式課程網頁」的目的是在網路上出版麻省理工學院的課程教材，不是成為與麻省理工學院教師之間的互動媒體。這可以提供麻省理工學院的教材，但並不是麻省理工學院教育的替代品。在麻省理工學院最基本的學習要件就是教師和學生在課堂上或是學生與學生在校園內的互動。麻省理工學院「開放式課程網頁」並不提供網頁的造訪者直接與教師們聯絡的管道。相關教材的問題將會被轉給負責該門課程的教師參考。不過，由於我們所收到的電子郵件數量驚人，收信者不見得會回覆所有的信件。
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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.
