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    MIT offers courses for free on the Web
    Posted on Friday, October 11, 2002 @ 15:31:00 GMT by vlad

    General I couldn't help but post this news for our readers to know: now everybody with a computer and a decent Internet connection can get an MIT level education, practically for free. I "take my hat off" before MIT and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for funding the OpenCourseWare (OCW) project (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html). Some of our readers are probably eager to browse through their physics section. There is only one course so far, but one right on target : "8.02 Electricity and Magnetism: TEAL/Studio Physics Project, Fall 2002" (http://ocw.mit.edu/8/8.02/f02/index.html). Here is Linda Rosencrance article published today in the Computerworld.



    MIT offers courses for free on the Web

    By LINDA ROSENCRANCE
    OCTOBER 11, 2002
    While MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project isn't quite a free education, it is a new approach to the open sharing of knowledge over the Internet.
    Launched two weeks ago, anyone with an Internet connection and a Web browser can access the syllabus, assignments, exams and answers, reference materials and, in some cases, video lectures of MIT courses. First announced in 2001, the idea behind OCW is to make course materials used in almost all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate subjects available online, free of charge, to users anywhere in the world, according to Jon Paul Potts, spokesman for the OCW project.
    Potts said the goal of the project is to advance technology-enhanced education at MIT and to serve as a model for university dissemination of knowledge in the Internet age.
    However, Potts said, MIT isn't putting its current semester course offerings online; rather, it is putting up course offerings from previous terms.
    There are 32 MIT courses in 17 disciplines available on the Web, including Introduction to Experimental Biology, Problems of Philosophy, Linear Algebra and Macroeconomics Theory II.

    Potts said MIT plans to put most of the materials from its 2,000 courses online by the 2006-07 academic year.
    He said OCW will allow faculty from other institutions and other people to observe teaching methods and resources used by MIT's faculty. "This is not distance learning," Potts said. "The goal is to provide the content that supports an education."

    Since the site went live, more than 130,000 users from around the world, including Africa, Algeria, Canada, Finland and Latvia, have accessed the site, and 1,700 of them have sent e-mails offering comments about the site, Potts said.
    Currently, individual course sites and the course materials for the pilot phase of OCW use HTML. The course sites are static Web pages, he said, but they use a number of additional formats, including PDF files, Java Applets and video files.

    Potts said OCW is still working on the technology infrastructure and studying other potential platforms to determine what the project will use in the long term. He said OCW is intended to be built using a full-featured content management and publication production system.

    The initial phase of the project, which cost $11 million, was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.


     
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    Re: MIT offers courses for free on the Web (Score: 1)
    by Anonymous on Friday, October 11, 2002 @ 22:23:00 GMT
    DTB (DTB1000@yahoo.com) writes: Vlad,

    One of the better and informative posts you made.

    DTB




    Re: MIT offers courses for free on the Web (Score: 1)
    by Anonymous on Saturday, October 12, 2002 @ 17:05:00 GMT
    vlad (vlad@zpenergy.com) writes: Don, thx; I'm trying my best but, don't forget, I'm only one person that can't do much on its own. The idea behind ZPEnergy.com was to have many people like you and me who, in their daily quest for information, searching through multiple various sources on the subject of ZPE, are willing to filter it down to the really important ones and share their pick with others. I admit, as some say, a human "filter" is biased (subjective) but so is every news source in the first place. That's why we have to go through so many sources. But that doesn't stop us from having our own preferred source of information on a certain topic, in which we build confidence in time, by sharing the same "principles of filtering" (same bias).

    I realized that there is no such reliable information filtering source for news on ZPE applicational research based on the filtering principles I'm interested in (see Mission Statement and "Field correspondents wanted" post). The time somebody like me had to spend searching for every single really valuable and relevant information through ever increasing number and size of the sources, became prohibitive. Unfortunately, even though many think like me, few are willing to join forces to do something about it (only one offer for field correspondent so far, which is shock news to me given the thousands of apparently quality readers of this site).

    Going back to MIT; don't get me wrong, I have a tremendous respect for scientists and especially good teachers. What I do not support is the attitude of those scientists who forgot a basic axiom of science, that "NO theory will remain valid forever" and consequently end up doing whatever it takes to maintain the current paradigm. Some resort to a blinding hostility against any of their own or even worst, outsider of the scientific establishment who challenges the dogma. This hostility unfortunately can lead to outright fraud, sometimes (I was reminded about the MIT paper on Cold Fusion, which basically killed it).

    I don't expect to find in the MIT physics lectures debated theories like the one published in the latest number of the Infinite Energy Magazine #43 in the article "Dirac's Equation and the Sea of Negative Energy" by D.L. Hotson (which I strongly recommend everybody to read - it is probably very accessible if I understood almost all of it, with only an engineering background).
    To conclude, there is no substitute in science for reading the literature, as Tom Bearden very well said. But my philosophy on the ZPE tapping devices business is this: theory or no theory if it works I accept it and use it. I'll give you just one example, from medicine, to see why everybody should have this philosophy. The Constraint-Induced (CI) Movement Therapy doesn't require surgery or drugs and could literally change the life of a stroke paralyzed patient in a matter of just a couple of weeks. Strangely, the research on which this therapy is based has been around for at least fifty years, but there was no accepted theory. Even now the theory is controversial and that's why very few heard about it. Fortunately some doctors finally embraced the same philosophy like me and many suffering people, who believed in them, are very happy now.
    I want to make people happy too and I believe we can do it together.




     

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