[edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 7

Tue Jul 13 14:17:14 EDT 2004

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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: July 2004

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The July 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Now Available
2. Digging Deeper: Course
3. A Frequently Asked Question
4. Comments
5. Newsletter Available Online at 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm

1. New Courses Now Available
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Over the course of the summer, MIT OpenCourseWare will employ a 
"rolling" publication schedule, releasing batches of new courses to 
the Web site at <http://ocw.mit.edu>http://ocw.mit.edu on a weekly 
basis, leading to the publication of 200 new courses by September 15. 
This milestone will mark the halfway point as MIT OCW works toward 
the publication of virtually all of MIT's courses by the year 2008. 
This month, we are pleased to offer the course materials from seven 
new MIT subjects, including:

Anthropology
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-336Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>21A.336 
-- Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization, 
Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-337JSpring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>21A.337J 
-- Documenting Culture, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-338JFall2003/CourseHome/index.htm>21A.338J 
-- Gender, Power, and International Development, Fall 2003

Economics
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Economics/14-731Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm>14.731 
-- Economic History, Fall 2003

Political Science
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-03Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>17.03 
-- Introduction to Political Thought, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-037Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>17.037 
-- American Political Thought, Spring 2004

Sloan School of Management
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-810Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>15.810 
-- Introduction to Marketing, Spring 2004

MIT OCW will continue to publish new courses every week through 
September 15. For a complete list of all course offerings, visit the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm>complete course 
list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of 
"<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocw-mail>The MIT 
OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter.

2. Digging Deeper: Course 21W.785
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Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to 
one particular subject. This month, we delve into Professor Edward 
Barrett's 
"<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-785Communicating-in-CyberspaceFall2003/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
21W.785 -- Communicating in Cyberspace, Fall 2003," from MIT's 
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.

The <http://web.mit.edu/humanistic/www/>Program in Writing and 
Humanistic Studies offers MIT students the opportunity to learn the 
techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from 
basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, 
fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical 
communication, and digital media. The Program's faculty consists of 
novelists, essayists, poets, translators, biographers, historians, 
engineers, and scientists -- including Professor Barrett, the general 
editor of the 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=41>MIT 
Press Series on Digital Communication and director of the MIT 
Undergraduate Technical Writing Cooperative.

Professor Barrett's course covers the analysis, design, 
implementation and testing of various forms of digital communication 
based on group collaboration. Students are encouraged to think about 
the Web and other new digital interactive media not just in terms of 
technology, but also broader issues such as language (verbal and 
visual), design, information architecture, communication and 
community. Students work in small groups on a 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-785Communicating-in-CyberspaceFall2003/Projects/index.htm>semester-long 
project of their choice.

The course includes 
a <http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-785Communicating-in-CyberspaceFall2003/RelatedResources/index.htm>Related 
Resources section with examples of excellent and poor Web design. 
This section also offers links to 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-785Communicating-in-CyberspaceFall2003/RelatedResources/index.htm#technologies>useful 
technologies for student projects, including Apache, Flash, Java and 
JavaScript, MySQL, and TomCat.

And users are encouraged to check out the rich collection of 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-785Communicating-in-CyberspaceFall2003/Readings/index.htm>Readings, 
several of which are freely downloadable, including "Designing the 
User Experience" and "Websites as Metaphors," by Deborah A. Levinson.

3. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: Can I link to MIT OCW from my Web site?
ANSWER: Links to MIT OCW or to courses or pages within the MIT OCW 
Web site are permitted so long as the use of the materials associated 
with the link is permitted under the terms of the MIT OCW 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>Creative Commons 
license; the link is freely accessible (e.g., no restrictions or fee 
for access); and there is no claim, appearance, or implication of an 
affiliation with or endorsement by MIT. MIT OCW cannot guarantee the 
persistence of any specific link other than those to the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu>MIT OCW homepage.

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