Carnegie Mellon Starts Offering Courses Online

OckNock writes "Carnegie Mellon is offering free courses through its Open Learning Initiative. Unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare which has 700 courses available, Carnegie Mellon currently only has five courses available. However, Carnegie Mellon is unique in that they offer '...courses [that] include a number of innovative online instructional components such as: cognitive tutors, virtual laboratories, group experiments, simulations,' so rather than just offering course material Carnegie Mellon is pursuing a more interactive, community approach. Carnegie Mellon is also unique in that they offer the courses as an Academic Version which '...is offered through educational institutions for credit awarded by the student's home institution.' Interestingly, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funds both MIT's OpenCourseWare and Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative ('Funding for the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon has been provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.') Sadly, the courses are not supported on any open source platforms or even any open source web browsers. More importantly, I'm curious how other universities will start making their courses available freely online."

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I SO FUCKING HATE THIS WEBSITE!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

GET A LIFE YOU GODDAMN FUCKING LOSER! WHAT KIND OF LOSER GETS OFF ON TROLLING SLASHDOT?

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Jeez, people, calm down on the open source.

[James A. S. Joyce]

"Sadly, the courses are not supported on any open source platforms or even any open source web browsers. More importantly, I'm curious how other universities will start making their courses available freely online."

People, people, people, open source is great. I run Linux on my home computer, surf the Web with Mozilla Firefox, IRC with X-chat and program with gcc.

But this open source veneration needs to be taken down a notch. It's pretty nice in a lot of areas, but we need to stop bitching out anybody who chooses not to open source or released under the GPL their materials.

Carnegie Mellon must obviously have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to produce these materials and it's pretty hard to see what's in it for them and maybe even us if they make this "courseware" publicly available. Just think about this.

Re:Better?

[Flounder]

Remember, Bush went to an Ivy League school. Would you hire him? We did, that's why he won the election. /troll