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2voteAfter MIT offered free downloadable lectures through its OpenCourseWare software, many other universities began to offer downloadable lectures for free, available at iTunes U and other university sites such as OYC.yale.edu, ocw.mit.edu, and bu.edu/today/buuniverse. This article discusses the authors experience and reactions to lectures downloaded from some of these sites.
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3voteResearchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.
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1voteOpen Courseware and Higher Education Resources from the universities and colleges of the world
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2voteOne of the most exciting developments in the Commons is that of open education. In a world where access to knowledge is unequally distributed, the potential for free repositories of knowledge and open education resources to redress the imbalance is enormous.
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2voteMIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , MIT, and generous support of the Ab Initio software company. MIT OCW's goals are to: * Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. * Extend the reach..
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