From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 1 18:21:15 2004 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:21:15 -0500 Subject: [ed-tech] MIT OpenCourseWare publishes 200 NEW courses Message-ID: MIT PUBLISHES 200 NEW COURSES ON OPENCOURSEWARE 200 new courses bring total to 700, including richer, deeper course content and more video CAMBRIDGE, MA (April 1, 2004) - MIT announced today that the OpenCourseWare initiative has published 200 new courses to bring to 701 the total number of courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu. Following the publication of 500 courses last fall, this is MIT OCW's second major milestone on the way to publishing virtually all of MIT's courses by the year 2008. First announced in April 2001, the MIT OCW proof-of-concept pilot site opened to the public in September 2002, offering 32 courses. The official launch of MIT OCW with 500 MIT courses came in September 2003. Truly a global initiative, the site has received visitors from more than 215 countries, territories, and city-states around the globe - including every member of the United Nations - over the course of the last 18 months. Materials have already been translated into at least 10 different languages. We are pleased to highlight the course materials from 50 of those new MIT course offerings, including: Aeronautics and Astronautics 16.100 - Aerodynamics 16.13 - Aerodynamics of Viscous Fluids 16.225 - Computational Mechanics of Materials 16.410 - Principles of Automated Reasoning and Decision-Making 16.810 - Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping Architecture 4.131 - Architectural Design Level II: Material Essence: The Glass House 4.206 - Introduction to Design Computing 4.212 - Design Fabrication 4.322 - Introduction to Sculpture 4.42J - Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings Civil and Environmental Engineering 1.012 - Introduction to Civil Engineering Design 1.017 - Computing and Data Analysis for Environmental Applications 1.206J - Airline Schedule Planning 1.224J J - Carrier Systems 1.258J - Public Transportation Service and Operations Planning Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems 12.007 - Geobiology 12.215 - Modern Navigation 12.540 - Principles of the Global Positioning System 12.740 - Paleoceanography Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.012 - Microelectronic Devices and Circuits 6.050J - Information and Entropy 6.152J - Microelectronics Processing Technology 6.334 - Power Electronics 6.863J - Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge Foreign Languages and Literatures 21F.031J - Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema 21F.035 - Topics in Culture and Globalization 21F.103 - Chinese III (Regular) 21F.104 - Chinese IV (Regular) 21F.105 - Chinese V (Regular): Chinese Cultures & Society Materials Science and Engineering 3.012 - Fundamentals of Materials Science 3.016 - Mathematics for Materials Scientists and Engineers 3.064 - Polymer Engineering 3.20 - Materials at Equilibrium 3.35 - Fracture and Fatigue Physics 8.022 - Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism 8.033 - Relativity 8.224 - Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics 8.282J - Introduction to Astronomy 8.514 - Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics Sloan School of Management 15.020 - Competition in Telecommunications 15.066J - System Optimization and Analysis for Manufacturing 15.075 - Applied Statistics 15.082J - Network Optimization 15.667 - Negotiation and Conflict Management Urban Studies and Planning 11.001J - Introduction to Urban Design and Development 11.016J - The City 11.020 - Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy 11.301J - Introduction to Urban Design and Development 11.948 - Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development For a complete list of all MIT OCW offerings, visit the complete course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) makes the educational materials used in the teaching of virtually all MIT undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user, anywhere in the world. This groundbreaking initiative promotes the open dissemination of knowledge, fostering MIT's mission to advance education and serve the world. "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" welcomes your feedback and suggestions about this newsletter and the MIT OCW Web site. Please send your feedback to Jon Paul Potts, MIT OCW Communications Manager, at jpotts at mit.edu. 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See you at 11:30 at the Mezzanine Lounge! -jean- -- ------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F From longpd at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 5 13:07:48 2004 From: longpd at MIT.EDU (Phillip Long) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:07:48 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Fwd: Pre-Sales Consulting moves to N42 Message-ID: FYI - phil Begin forwarded message: > From: Barbara Goguen > Date: April 5, 2004 12:41:53 PM EDT > To: is&t at mit.edu, it-partners at mit.edu > Subject: Pre-Sales Consulting moves to N42 > > Hello, colleagues. We write in an effort to keep you informed of > on-going > changes as we continue to try to consolidate our resources and provide > more > reliable and consistent front door services to our clients. > > Effective Monday, April 5, the MCC Showroom staff and demo equipment > will be relocated from W20 to N42. Kevin Burns, MCC Consultant, will > have an office space in N42-140s, while the demo equipment and the > pre-sales consulting function will join other walk-in functions in the > lobby of N42. If you direct customers to the MCC Showroom for > pre-sales consulting, please be sure to send them now to N42 rather > than W20. > > Please join us in welcoming Kevin to N42 where he'll have the added > benefit > of being able to see the sunshine. And please support our efforts to > rethink our help services, to provide more comprehensive and > collaborative > assistance for our customers. > > As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome. Please send them to > goguen at mit.edu and othomas at mit.edu. > Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd at mit.edu Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038 77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665 Cambridge, MA 02139 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1861 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/ed-tech/attachments/20040405/2686193d/attachment.bin From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 5 16:13:36 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:13:36 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Design mockups for the new Ed Tech Times online newsletter Message-ID: <1081196016.12975.743.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Hi, As promised at the meeting today, here is the URL for the 3 designs. Use the dropdown in the upper right to select each one. I've asked the designer to fix whatever is wrong with design #3. I don't think it looks the way it was intended. Let us know which you prefer and what you think of the whole idea. Feel free to try out the comment form as well. thanks, -jean- ------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F From jfoster at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 6 09:20:35 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:20:35 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Design mockups for the new Ed Tech Times online newsletter In-Reply-To: <002b01c41bd1$23595b70$7e00aa12@DEKANELAPTOP> References: <002b01c41bd1$23595b70$7e00aa12@DEKANELAPTOP> Message-ID: <1081257635.12975.1421.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Sorry. The URL: http://vibes.mit.edu/MT/insider_dev/ -jean- On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:17, Deirdre Kane wrote: > jean, > > I think you forgot to include the URL... > > DeeDee > > -----Original Message----- > From: ed-tech-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:ed-tech-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of > Jean Foster > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:14 PM > To: ed-tech at mit.edu > Subject: [ed-tech] Design mockups for the new Ed Tech Times online > newsletter > > > Hi, > > As promised at the meeting today, here is the URL for the 3 designs. > Use the dropdown in the upper right to select each one. I've asked the > designer to fix whatever is wrong with design #3. I don't think it looks the > way it was intended. > > Let us know which you prefer and what you think of the whole idea. Feel free > to try out the comment form as well. > > thanks, > -jean- > ------------------------------------- > Jean Foster > MIT Academic Computing > 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F > _______________________________________________ > ed-tech mailing list > ed-tech at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ed-tech -- ------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F From jfoster at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 6 09:42:33 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:42:33 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] [Fwd: Planned Outage: W92 Computer Room, Tues, Apr 6th, 2004] Message-ID: <1081258951.12975.1503.camel@arizona.mit.edu> In case you haven't received this through other lists, it concerns an outage of email servers and MIT's main web site, web.mit.edu. -jean- -----Forwarded Message----- From: Theresa M Regan To: Administrative User Community , IT-Partners , netusers at mit.edu, it-lead at mit.edu Cc: Theresa M Regan , Information Services & Technology Department , athena-outages at mit.edu Subject: Planned Outage: W92 Computer Room, Tues, Apr 6th, 2004 Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:26:28 -0400 Date: Monday, April 5th, 2004 To: Colleagues of the MIT Community From: Information Services & Technology Subject: Planned Power/Network Outage W92 Computer Room Tuesday, April 6th commencing at 11pm --------------- As you may be aware, the uninterruptible power system (UPS) supplying the W92 computer room was damaged last Friday (April 2nd) when a small fire forced an emergency shutdown. Although most services were restored on Friday, there is lingering damage to the power system that needs to be repaired as soon as possible. Most of the repairs can be facilitated while power is on-line, but unfortunately not all of them. We will therefore be scheduling some number of W92 computer room shutdowns to repair equipment damaged on Friday and to rectify some on-going issues that contributed to the failure. The first of these shutdowns is scheduled for this Tuesday night (April 6th) starting around 10:30pm. We will be powering down the room at 11pm and we expect to begin the shutdown of services around 10:30pm. We will shutdown the most critical services last and restore them to service first. We expect to have power restored to the room by midnight with most services operational before 1am (Wednesday, April 7th). Services affected, include: E-mail Storage (Post Office servers) web.mit.edu (MIT?s main web site) Significant portions of the Athena AFS file system will be unavailable. Note: We do not expect to have to shutdown our external connectivity. MITnet's connection to the outside world should remain operational throughout the outage. Further notifications related to this outage will be posted to . The is3down site is the home of the 3DOWN Services Status page, which is frequently accessed via . As web.mit.edu will not be available during this outage, please access the 3DOWN site via In closing, thank-you for your patience and understanding during this important planned outage. Please assist us in sharing this information within your Department, Lab or Center. Should you have any pressing questions or concerns, please e-mail -- ------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F From jfoster at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 6 12:38:52 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:38:52 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Teaching with Technology web site Message-ID: Hello all, The Teaching with Technology site is officially launched! http://web.mit.edu/teachtech/ Please check again to make sure that your services are properly listed and also please link to this site from your own organization's web site. If you have any new services you would like to add, use the "Add a service" form. You'll see the link at the bottom of the page. We have contracted with IS&T's Web Communication Services group to do monthly updates, so if you do want to make a change or add a service it will be done on a regular basis. The sidebar announcements will be updated by me for now but eventually be fed automatically from Academic Computing's new online newsletter, the Ed Tech Times, the first issue of which will be released by the end of this month. If you have a relevant announcement you would like posted, send email to edtech-requests at mit.edu. The Contact us link on the bottom of the pages goes to this address. Thanks to you all for your cooperation in creating this site. I believe it will be a useful tool for faculty. -jean- From kcahill at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 8 21:32:50 2004 From: kcahill at MIT.EDU (Kathy Cahill) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:32:50 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] "Untangling the Web" satellite broadcast April 22 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040408211950.032fcfd0@po12.mit.edu> Dear colleagues; Please read and feel free to forward this email to any MIT colleagues or lists that might be relevant. Thanks, Kathy ****************** Announcing an event of interest to all faculty and staff delivering course information electronically: "Untangling the Web: Making Online Teaching and Learning Accessible" Live Satellite Broadcast, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:30-4:00 pm, N42 Demo Center. RSVP to Kathy Cahill, kcahill at mit.edu . Produced by UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (UMUC) for PBS Adult Learning Service Supported with grants from SBC Foundation and NEC Foundation of America You are invited to participate in a live satellite broadcast on accessibility in online teaching and learning from 2:30-4:00 pm on April 22, 2004. The broadcast will be in the form of a moderated panel discussion with call-in questions from participants at sites around the country. Among the areas the program will cover: * How students with disabilities are navigating the Web, and how inaccessible course content impacts the work of faculty and staff * How to address accessibility problems posed by courseware, course management systems, multimedia, and use of audio and video in online courses * What kind of collaborative models have been developed to help faculty and staff meet the challenge of online accessibility * How to develop institutional coordination policies in your campus or organization * What faculty and staff development programs can do to enhance understanding of disability and technology * What role good teaching plays in improving online accessibility * How Universal Design and Universal Design for Instruction can inform the process of ensuring online accessibility Disability support providers as well as faculty, course designers, academic computing staff, and others impacted by online accessibility issues will want to participate in this program. 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On April 14th, at 1:00 pm in 4-237, she will share with us her current findings in a presentation titled:Lessons Learned: Findings from the Assessments of New Initiatives in Educational Technology at MIT (2000-2003). -------------------------------------------- Abstract: In 1999, MIT received a generous grant from the Microsoft Corporation that allowed it to embark on a wide scale series of innovations in educational technology. iCampus, the name given the MIT-Microsoft alliance, has seen the development of more than 23 projects that are aimed at improving teaching and learning in undergraduate education. The Teaching and Learning Laboratory was asked to manage the assessment of these initiatives. In this work, we have collaborated with MIT faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students, education graduate students from other universities in the Boston area, and assessment and evaluation consultants. Three years later, as we have reviewed our findings from these individual projects, we have identified a number of common threads among them. These commonalities have allowed us to draw several overarching conclusions about the use and effects of educational technology: what works, what doesn't, and how educational technologies influence the learning environments in which they are embedded. -- ------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 21 10:43:00 2004 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:43:00 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 4 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: April 2004 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare ---------------------------------------------------------------- The April 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. Learning Communities Pilot Project Launches 2. New Courses Bring Total to 701 3. Digging Deeper: Course 5.301 4. A Frequently Asked Question 5. Comments 1. Learning Communities Pilot Project Launches ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) has embarked on a pilot research project with the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities Research Group in the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University. Seven MIT OCW courses will offer links to learning communities, where individuals around the world can connect with each other, collaborate, form study groups, and receive support for their use of MIT OCW materials in formal and informal educational settings. These links will appear in the left-hand navigation of the following MIT OCW courses: Course 1.00 - Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving Course 6.046J - Introduction to Algorithms Course 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism Course 11.431J - Real Estate Finance and Investment Course 14.03 - Intermediate Applied Microeconomics Course 15.053 - Introduction to Optimization Course 18.06 - Linear Algebra This joint MIT OCW/ Utah State University research project, called Open Learning Support (OLS) is focused on building "social software" that enables informal learning communities to form around existing open educational content. The fundamental premise of OLS is that full educational opportunity requires a user to have social access to other human beings who can answer questions and provide support. Since the sponsors of free and open Web-based materials cannot typically provide this access, the social support must come from other users. Therefore, OLS: Operates independently of MIT OCW Requires no registration to read posts; registration and login are required, however, to post new comments Is a space where individuals can connect to share, discuss, ask, answer, debate, collaborate, teach, and learn Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting program Does not provide formal access to MIT or Utah State University faculty To see an example of one of these pilot learning communities, connect to the pilot learning community for "Course 18.06 - Linear Algebra," now. 2. New Courses Bring Total to 701 ---------------------------------------------------------------- On April 1, MIT OCW published 200 new courses to bring to 701 the total number available at http://ocw.mit.edu. Following the publication of 500 courses last fall, this is MIT OCW's second major milestone on the way to publishing virtually all of MIT's courses by the year 2008. We are pleased to highlight the course materials from 50 of those new MIT course offerings, including: Architecture 4.107 - MArch Portfolio Seminar Fall 2003 4.123 - Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes 4.302 - BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts 4.303 - Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism 4.614 - Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures Civil and Environmental Engineering 1.018J - Fundamentals of Ecology 1.033 - Mechanics of Material Systems: An Energy Approach 1.212J - An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems 1.225J - Transportation Flow Systems 1.259J - Transit Management Earth, Atmospherics, and Planetary Sciences 12.800 - Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean 12.820 - Turbulence in Geophysical Systems 12.864 - Inference from Data and Models 12.990 - Prediction and Predictability in the Atmosphere and Oceans Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.685 - Electric Machines 6.780 - Semiconductor Manufacturing 6.828 - Operating System Engineering 6.856J - Randomized Algorithms 6.857 - Network and Computer Security Foreign Languages & Literature 21F.039 - Japanese Popular Culture 21F.056 - Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present 21F.106 - Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies 21F.701 - Spanish I 21F.714 - Spanish for Bilingual Students History 21H.580 - From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia 21H.907 - Trials in History 21H.931 - Seminar in Historical Methods 21H.952J - Readings in American History Since 1877 21H.991J - Theories and Methods in the Study of History Literature 21L.001 - Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante 21L.003 - Introduction to Fiction 21L.007J - After Columbus 21L.701 - Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry 21L.705 Major Authors: Melville and Morrison Mathematics 18.01 - Single Variable Calculus 18.238 - Geometry and Quantum Field Theory 18.310 - Principles of Applied Mathematics 18.337J - Applied Parallel Computing 18.433 - Combinatorial Optimization Political Science 17.042 - Citizenship and Pluralism 17.118J - Feminist Political Thought 17.181 - Sustainable Development: Theory, Research and Policy 17.405 - Seminar on Politics and Conflict in the Middle East 17.410 - Globalization, Migration & International Relations 17.420 - Advances in International Relations Theory Sloan School of Management 15.063 - Communicating With Data 15.311 - Organizational Processes 15.322 - Leading Organizations II 15.402 - Finance Theory II 15.414 - Financial Management For a complete list of all MIT OCW offerings, visit the complete course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter. 3. Digging Deeper: Course 5.301 --------------------------------------------------------------- Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to one particular subject. This month, we delve into "Course 5.301: Chemistry Laboratory Techniques," a course from the MIT Department of Chemistry taught by Dr. Sarah Tabacco. This course is an intensive introduction to the techniques of experimental chemistry and gives MIT first-year students an opportunity to learn and master the basic chemistry lab techniques for carrying out experiments. Students who successfully complete the course and obtain a Competent Chemist (CC) or Expert Experimentalist (EE) rating are likely to secure opportunities for research work in a chemistry lab at MIT. The centerpiece of the course materials are a series of chemistry laboratory instructional videos called the Digital Lab Techniques Manual (DLTM), used as supplementary material for this course as well as other courses offered by the MIT Department of Chemistry. These 10 fun videos explore subjects such as Titration ("Learn how to master the art of titration in this video with a detailed demonstration of an acid/base titration using phenolphthalein."); Reaction Work-Up I ("Extracting, Washing and Drying: It ain't over 'til it's over. Learn how to "work up" your reaction using a separatory funnel to perform a liquid-liquid extraction. This is one purification technique you don't want to miss!"); and Sublimation ("From solid to gas, and then straight back to solid. This purification technique is both beautiful and useful. Find out why by watching the atmospheric pressure sublimation of ferrocene in this video."). Course 5.301 also includes a section on Labs, course modules for mastering a series of chemistry laboratory techniques. Information on the original research project assignment and a listing of techniques guides are also provided. All materials may be found in the complete laboratory manual. And the Laboratory Introduction document reviews safety guidelines as well as check in and check out procedures for the course. This course is offered during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP), a special four-week term that runs the full month of January. 4. A Frequently Asked Question ---------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: How do I properly cite my reuse of MIT OCW materials? ANSWER: If you choose to reuse or repost MIT OCW materials you must give proper attribution to the original MIT faculty author(s). Please utilize the following citation: "This material was created by or adapted from material created by MIT faculty member, (Name), (Title), (Year). Copyright ? (Year) (Faculty Member's Name)." If you want to use the materials on your Web site, you must also include a copy of the MIT OCW Creative Commons license, or clear and reasonable link to its URL (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm), with every copy of the MIT materials or the derivative work you create from it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is a large-scale, Web-based publishing initiative with the goal of providing free, searchable access to MIT course materials for educators, students, and individual learners around the world. These materials are offered in a single, searchable structure spanning all of MIT's academic disciplines, and include uniform metadata about the contents of the individual subject sites. "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" welcomes your feedback and suggestions about this newsletter and the MIT OCW Web site. Please send your feedback to Jon Paul Potts, MIT OCW Communications Manager, at jpotts at mit.edu. To subscribe a friend to this newsletter, forward the following link to them: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocw-mail If you choose to not receive the "MIT OpenCourseWare Update" e-newsletter, unsubscribe at: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocw-mail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/ed-tech/attachments/20040421/09a3ce68/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ ocw-mail mailing list ocw-mail at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocw-mail From jpotts at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 08:58:10 2004 From: jpotts at MIT.EDU (Jon Paul Potts) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:58:10 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 4 Message-ID: Howdy! Jon Paul Potts, the Communications Manager for OCW, here... I just got this back to me from the ed-tech mailing list... Are you guys forwarding this? That's great, just curious who might get it? Thanks! Jon Paul At 10:43 AM -0400 4/21/04, ocw-mail at MIT.EDU wrote: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: April 2004 > >A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users >and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >The April 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: >1. Learning Communities Pilot Project Launches >2. New Courses Bring Total to 701 >3. Digging Deeper: Course 5.301 >4. A Frequently Asked Question >5. Comments > > >1. Learning Communities Pilot Project Launches >---------------------------------------------------------------- >MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) has embarked on a pilot research >project with the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities Research >Group in the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State >University. Seven MIT OCW courses will offer links to learning >communities, where individuals around the world can connect with >each other, collaborate, form study groups, and receive support for >their use of MIT OCW materials in formal and informal educational >settings. These links will appear in the left-hand navigation of the >following MIT OCW courses: >Course >1.00 - Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving >Course >6.046J - Introduction to Algorithms >Course >8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism >Course >11.431J - Real Estate Finance and Investment >Course >14.03 - Intermediate Applied Microeconomics >Course >15.053 - Introduction to Optimization >Course >18.06 - Linear Algebra > >This joint MIT OCW/ Utah State University research project, called >Open Learning Support (OLS) is focused on >building "social software" that enables informal learning >communities to form around existing open educational content. The >fundamental premise of OLS is that full educational opportunity >requires a user to have social access to other human beings who can >answer questions and provide support. Since the sponsors of free and >open Web-based materials cannot typically provide this access, the >social support must come from other users. Therefore, OLS: >Operates independently of MIT OCW >Requires no registration to read posts; registration and login are >required, however, to post new comments >Is a space where individuals can connect to share, discuss, ask, >answer, debate, collaborate, teach, and learn >Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting program >Does not provide formal access to MIT or Utah State University faculty > >To see an example of one of these pilot learning communities, >connect to the pilot learning community for >"Course >18.06 - Linear Algebra," now. > > >2. New Courses Bring Total to 701 >---------------------------------------------------------------- >On April 1, MIT OCW published 200 new courses to bring to 701 the >total number available at http://ocw.mit.edu. >Following the publication of 500 courses last fall, this is MIT >OCW's second major milestone on the way to publishing virtually all >of MIT's courses by the year 2008. We are pleased to highlight the >course materials from 50 of those new MIT course offerings, >including: > >Architecture >4.107 - MArch Portfolio Seminar Fall 2003 >4.123 - Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes >4.302 - BSAD Foundations in the Visual Arts >4.303 - Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism >4.614 - Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures > >Civil >and Environmental Engineering >1.018J - Fundamentals of Ecology >1.033 - Mechanics of Material Systems: An Energy Approach >1.212J - An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems >1.225J - Transportation Flow Systems >1.259J - Transit Management > >Earth, >Atmospherics, and Planetary Sciences >12.800 - Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean >12.820 - Turbulence in Geophysical Systems >12.864 - Inference from Data and Models >12.990 - Prediction and Predictability in the Atmosphere and Oceans > >Electrical >Engineering and Computer Science >6.685 - Electric Machines >6.780 - Semiconductor Manufacturing >6.828 - Operating System Engineering >6.856J - Randomized Algorithms >6.857 - Network and Computer Security > >Foreign >Languages & Literature >21F.039 - Japanese Popular Culture >21F.056 - Visual Histories: German Cinema 1945 to Present >21F.106 - Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies >21F.701 - Spanish I >21F.714 - Spanish for Bilingual Students > >History >21H.580 - From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and >Central Eurasia >21H.907 - Trials in History >21H.931 - Seminar in Historical Methods >21H.952J - Readings in American History Since 1877 >21H.991J - Theories and Methods in the Study of History > >Literature >21L.001 - Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante >21L.003 - Introduction to Fiction >21L.007J - After Columbus >21L.701 - Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry >21L.705 Major Authors: Melville and Morrison > >Mathematics >18.01 - Single Variable Calculus >18.238 - Geometry and Quantum Field Theory >18.310 - Principles of Applied Mathematics >18.337J - Applied Parallel Computing >18.433 - Combinatorial Optimization > >Political Science >17.042 - Citizenship and Pluralism >17.118J - Feminist Political Thought >17.181 - Sustainable Development: Theory, Research and Policy >17.405 - Seminar on Politics and Conflict in the Middle East >17.410 - Globalization, Migration & International Relations >17.420 - Advances in International Relations Theory > >Sloan >School of Management >15.063 - Communicating With Data >15.311 - Organizational Processes >15.322 - Leading Organizations II >15.402 - Finance Theory II >15.414 - Financial Management > >For a complete list of all MIT OCW offerings, visit >the complete >course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of >"The MIT >OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter. > > >3. Digging Deeper: Course 5.301 >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to >one particular subject. This month, we delve into >"Course >5.301: Chemistry Laboratory Techniques," a course from the MIT >Department of Chemistry taught by Dr. Sarah Tabacco. This course is >an intensive introduction to the techniques of experimental >chemistry and gives MIT first-year students an opportunity to learn >and master the basic chemistry lab techniques for carrying out >experiments. Students who successfully complete the course and >obtain a Competent Chemist (CC) or Expert Experimentalist (EE) >rating are likely to secure opportunities for research work in a >chemistry lab at MIT. > >The centerpiece of the course materials are a series of chemistry >laboratory instructional videos called the >Digital >Lab Techniques Manual (DLTM), used as supplementary material for >this course as well as other courses offered by the MIT Department >of Chemistry. These 10 fun videos explore subjects such as Titration >("Learn how to master the art of titration in this video with a >detailed demonstration of an acid/base titration using >phenolphthalein."); Reaction Work-Up I ("Extracting, Washing and >Drying: It ain't over 'til it's over. Learn how to "work up" your >reaction using a separatory funnel to perform a liquid-liquid >extraction. This is one purification technique you don't want to >miss!"); and Sublimation ("From solid to gas, and then straight back >to solid. This purification technique is both beautiful and useful. >Find out why by watching the atmospheric pressure sublimation of >ferrocene in this video."). > >Course 5.301 also includes a section on >Labs, >course modules for mastering a series of chemistry laboratory >techniques. Information on the original research project assignment >and a listing of techniques guides are also provided. All materials >may be found in the >complete >laboratory manual. And the >Laboratory >Introduction document reviews safety guidelines as well as check in >and check out procedures for the course. > >This course is offered during MIT's >Independent Activities Period (IAP), a >special four-week term that runs the full month of January. > > >4. 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Vest Jon Paul Potts Communications Manager MIT OpenCourseWare 77 Massachusetts Avenue Building 9-235B Cambridge, MA 02139 617-452-3621 jpotts at mit.edu http://ocw.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/ed-tech/attachments/20040426/d6e9ebf2/attachment.htm From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 11:02:24 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:02:24 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Ed Tech Partners meeting - May 3, 2004, 11:30 - W20 West Lounge Message-ID: Hi, Our next meeting will be on Monday, May 3 and our guest speaker will be David Kahle from Tuft's University who will be discussing his Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project. The abstract and bio are below. Hope you can make it. WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch) WHEN: Monday, May 3, 11:30 - 1:30 WHERE: W20 West Lounge RSVP: by Thu, Apr. 28 , 2003 to jfoster at mit.edu Looking ahead to our June 7 meeting, Katie Vale will be presenting on her doctoral research titled "A History of Early Courseware Development at MIT and Brown: Lessons from Project Athena and Intermedia". BTW, she successfully defended her thesis a few weeks ago, so congratulations Dr. Vale! -------------------- May 3 Presentation: The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE):Moving from Data to Meaning Abstract: David Kahle, Dir. of Academic Computing at Tufts University and PI of the Virtual Understanding Environment project will discuss some of the challenges of teaching and learning with digital resources that stem from a lack of tools for making digital information visible and meaningful. He will present recent work on the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE), an application designed to provide a concept mapping interface to digital materials. Using VUE, faculty and students may visually structure, organize and annotate digital content to better understand and communicate how ideas and digital content are related. For further information see: http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/ Bio: David Kahle is the Director of Tufts Academic Technology and oversees Tufts' central AT initiatives which include technology education for faculty, curricular technology design and development and research computing administration. David?s research and development focus is the design of information systems and Internet-based technologies for learning and teaching. His experience includes the planning and development of networked learning environments in support of higher education, informal adult learning, and public outreach initiatives. David serves on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching courses on the design and development of online environments for learning. -jean- --------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 20139 N42-040F, 617.253.3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 11:34:58 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:34:58 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Ed Tech Fair re-scheduled Message-ID: <463C7200-9797-11D8-8A33-000A959B1E68@mit.edu> Hello, FYI: We've decided to re-schedule this until next fall. It seemed too early to have another one. We are looking at dates in October and will keep you posted. -jean- --------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Foster MIT Academic Computing 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 20139 N42-040F, 617.253.3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 12:13:48 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:13:48 -0400 Subject: [ed-tech] Next Ed Tech Partners meeting and Crosstalk Message-ID: Hi, To avoid any possible confusion to those who may be on both the Crosstalk and Ed Tech Partners mailing lists, you should know that next week's Ed Tech Partners presentation has been arranged by Phil Long as a joint Crosstalk and Ed Tech Partners event. Crosstalk is a Seminar Series on Educational Change which is sponsored by Academic Computing. The Crosstalk event is scheduled to start at noon, however we can have an Ed Tech Partners roundtable during our lunch at 11:30. -jean-