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More Universities to Publish Courseware Online

Posted by chrisd on from the click-your-way-to-braininess dept.

prostoalex writes "After MIT's decision to put the course materials online free of charge, seven other universities expressed similar goals. With the grant from Hewlett-Packard the universities of Washington, Rochester, Toronto, Cornell, Columbia, Ohio State as well as MIT will provide their courses online at a single location. DSpace was launched with a $1.8 million grant from HP. MIT expects to spend about $250,000 annually to maintain and operate the archive. The page is available here." We also have an update on MITs courseware offerings, so read more if you care about such things. In related news, dchud writes "DSpace, which has been in production use at MIT Libraries since September, is now available under a BSD-style license as version 1.0 at sourceforge. DSpace is a repository for capturing, persisting, and providing access to the digital research output of the MIT community, and will be the long-term archive for OpenCourseWare materials. Now it's available as an institutional repository platform for the rest of the world. See also coverage from the Boston Globe, CNET, and the AP (via NYT, reg req'd)."

8 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. Great by ibmhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now professors can be like the students and copy all of their material from the web!

  2. Add this to my resume by batboy78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well does this mean that I can add imaginary degree from Cornell and MIT to my resume?

  3. What about courses? by Yoda2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now if MIT would only offer courses online!

    University of Phoenix be afraid...be very, very afraid...

  4. Excellent by Dick+Click · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am very glad to hear the University of Toronto will be included. Provided the archive is complete, I will be able to review material I was supposed to have learned in the first place!

    Grad 9T3

  5. Re:How about degrees? by russianspy · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. You cannot download degrees. However, for 49.95 we will mail you your very own, degree from an accredited university. Act Now and you will receive masters at half price!

  6. $250,000!!! by SashaM · · Score: 3, Funny

    or about 7 students' tuition.

    While I think it's really great that MIT are putting their course materials online, I'd prefer to be able to study at MIT.

  7. Re:Cambridge by Ubergrendle · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's okay -- i'm of Norman decent and I consider Cambridge and Oxford to be 'one of ours' as well.

    --
    John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
  8. Sweet! by rmohr02 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I won't have to buy books for next quarter.