MIT OCW Pilot Opens to the Public on September 30th
OCW plans to publish our first wave of courses on September 30, 2002. Sample courses will be included from the following academic departments:
Anthropology
Biology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Economics
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
History
Linguistics and Philosophy
Management
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Political Science
Urban Studies and Planning
The opening of these courses represents a continuation of the early pilot of OCW’s long-term effort. We expect OCW content to become deeper and richer over time. We invite you to return on September 30th, when we will welcome your feedback.
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A Brief Description of OCW
At a press conference on April 4, 2001, MIT announced its commitment to make the materials from virtually all of its courses freely available on the World Wide Web for non-commercial use. This new initiative, called MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), reflects MIT's institutional commitment to disseminate knowledge across the globe.
We see OCW as a way to share our thinking about the content of a modern curriculum in all the areas in which MIT excels. Users of the OCW site may include other academics around the world and individual learners who may not have access to similar educational materials.
The task of creating a highly visible web site that draws together the materials of virtually all of MIT's course offerings is considerable. However, the majority of faculty support this effort and believe that it is consistent with MIT's long-standing objective to focus the contributions of both its faculty and its new technologies on broad, societal benefits.
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