[edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 11

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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: November 2004

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The November 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. See CNN Video About MIT OCW
2. MIT President, Former Princeton President On Open Sharing
3. Digging Deeper: Course 18.03
4. A Frequently Asked Question
5. Comments
6. Newsletter Available Online at 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm


1. See CNN Video About MIT OCW
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CNN is among the world's leaders in news and information delivery, 
and so it was a great opportunity for outreach to potential users 
when MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), was featured on CNN and CNN 
International television in September and October 2004.

In case you missed it, check out the streaming video file of the CNN 
program on the MIT OCW Web site. These videos are in Real Player 
format at speeds of 
(<http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/presentation/ocw-cnn-global-challenges-220k.rm>220K) 
(<http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/presentation/ocw-cnn-global-challenges-80k.rm>80K) 
(<http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/presentation/ocw-cnn-global-challenges-56k.rm>56K). 
The videos are also highlighted on the <http://ocw.mit.edu>MIT OCW 
homepage, and on the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/medicoverage.htm>Media 
Coverage page.

The six-minute segment about MIT OCW was produced by the CNN 
International program 
<http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/global.challenges/>Global 
Challenges that aired September 12, 19 and 26, and October 3 and 10. 
The segment also aired on CNN United States on the program 
<http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/next/index.html>Next at CNN in late 
September. "Global Challenges" travels around the world to bring 
feature reports on sustainable development, focusing on everything 
from small-scale community projects to innovative ideas -- such as 
MIT OCW -- that could change the world.


2. MIT President, Former Princeton President On Open Sharing
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Who could have guessed that a Florentine omelet would play a role in 
the origins of MIT OCW?

A breakfast meeting in a New York "greasy spoon" was one of the 
seminal moments in shaping the "opencourseware" concept, according to 
William G. Bowen, the President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 
who dined with MIT President Charles M. Vest one morning in 2000 to 
discuss foundation support for the initiative. This anecdote came 
during Bowen's reflections on MIT OCW and open sharing that he shared 
at an <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/238/>MIT Faculty Forum on Open 
Sharing that was held at MIT on October 4, 2004.

Users of MIT OCW around the world are invited to see and hear Bowen's 
remarks, along with those of Vest and MIT Provost Robert A. Brown, by 
watching a <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/238/>video of the event on 
MIT World. <http://mitworld.mit.edu/>MIT World is a free and open 
video streaming Web site of significant public events at MIT. It is a 
showcase for the diversity of speakers, panels and symposia held 
every day on MIT's campus, offering an educational archive of more 
than 230 videos of significant events from 2001 to the present. Users 
are invited to view a virtual "Who's Who" of great thinkers, from 
Nobel Laureates to a wide range of corporate leaders (including Bill 
Gates, Carly Fiorina, Michael Dell and Jeff Bezos). Check out MIT 
World at http://mitworld.mit.edu.

Bowen has been president of the <http://www.mellon.org/>Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation since 1988. Before that, he was President of 
Princeton University where he also served as a professor of economics 
and public affairs. Bowen's interest in the applications of 
information technology to scholarship has led to a range of 
initiatives, including MIT OCW. He is also the author or co-author of 
19 books, including The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational 
Values (2001) with James Shulman.


3. Digging Deeper: Course 18.03
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MIT OCW offers free and open access to 914 courses, and each month, 
this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to one 
particular subject. This month, we dig into 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
18.03: Differential Equations, a wonderful course taught by 
Professors Haynes Miller and Arthur Mattuck from the 
<http://www-math.mit.edu/>MIT Department of Mathematics.

Differential equations are the language in which the laws of nature 
are expressed. Understanding properties of solutions of differential 
equations is fundamental to much of contemporary science and 
engineering. Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) deal with 
functions of one variable, which can often be thought of as time. The 
MIT OCW Web site for this course showcases the innovative ways in 
which differential equations are now being taught at MIT.

The 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/LectureNotes/index.htm>Lecture 
Notes section feature 38 PDFs of lecture notes. These are simple text 
files that were provided to the students containing nearly verbatim 
transcripts of Professor Miller's lively lectures. The lectures 
follow an "active learning" approach. The lecture periods are used to 
help students gain expertise in understanding, constructing, solving, 
and interpreting differential equations.

There are 24 sets of 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/Recitations/index.htm>Recitation 
problems and solutions, eight sets of 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/Assignments/index.htm>Assignments 
and Solutions, and a comprehensive 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/Exams/index.htm>Exams 
section, including practice exams and actual exams with solutions.

The course site also features a complete set of Professor Mattuck's 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring2004/VideoLectures/index.htm>Video 
Lectures, recorded live in MIT's spring 2003 semester. Professor 
Mattuck has inspired and informed generations of MIT students with 
his engaging lectures. Starting in the 1970s, Professor Mattuck began 
a video program for teaching assistants and post-docs to improve 
their teaching. These complete videotapes were made possible by the 
<http://web.mit.edu/cet/init/darbeloff.html>d'Arbeloff Fund for 
Excellence in MIT Education.


4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: Can I link to the MIT OCW Web site 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; that the link is freely accessible (e.g., no restrictions or 
fee for access); and that 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. As new 
courses are published and new user features are added to the MIT OCW 
site, some links may change, so Web sites that link into MIT OCW are 
advised to check on a regular basis that they have provided the 
correct URL in their links.


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