[edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 10
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: October 2004
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The October 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. Nobelist Publishes Two Courses
2. How Big is the MIT OCW Web Site?
3. Digging Deeper: Unified Engineering
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. Nobelist Publishes Two Courses
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MIT Professor Frank Wilczek has won the
<http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/2004/>2004 Nobel Prize in
Physics for a "colorful" discovery in the world of quarks, the
building blocks of the atomic nucleus.
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/nobel-wilczek.html>Wilczek's
work, which involves the dominant -- or "color," force between quarks
-- is key to several major problems in particle physics and beyond.
Wilczek, 53, shares the prize of about $1.3 million with David J.
Gross of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and H. David
Politzer of the California Institute of Technology.
Check out his two courses published on MIT OCW:
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-325Spring2003/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
8.325 -- Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III, which directly
reflects on the work that won Wilczek the Nobel Prize, and
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-012Physics-IFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
8.012 -- Physics I, an introductory physics course which presents
elementary mechanics, Newton's laws, concepts of momentum, energy,
angular momentum, rigid body motion, and non-inertial systems.
2. How Big is the MIT OCW Web Site?
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The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses,
ranging from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT schools --
<http://web.mit.edu/sap/www/>Architecture and Planning,
<http://web.mit.edu/engineering/>Engineering,
<http://web.mit.edu/science/>Science,
<http://web.mit.edu/shass/>Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and
the <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/indexflash.php>Sloan School of
Management. With more than 900 courses available, users frequently
ask, "Just how much educational content is really available on the
MIT OCW Web site?"
MIT OCW is a content-rich Web site that is 48 gigabytes in size;
offering courses that contain 14,717 HTML pages, 15,640 unique PDF
documents, and 16,078 images -- overall 55,171 total files for use by
MIT's global audience. All of this is made available through the
generosity of 536 MIT faculty, with many more signed on for future
publication cycles.
4. Digging Deeper: Unified Engineering
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The MIT OCW Web site now offers free and open access to 914 courses,
including one of the most famous courses from MIT's Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
16.01-04: Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV.
The challenging course is the bane of sophomore year for MIT
Aero/Astro majors. It combines the disciplines of materials and
structures, computer programming, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,
propulsion, signals and systems, and systems and labs, into a
year-long course designed to introduce the systemic nature of
aerospace engineering... And it is by far the biggest course ever
published on the MIT OCW site. Its inclusion marks a major publishing
milestone for MIT OCW and a unique opportunity for the
<http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/>MIT Department of Aero/Astro to
share its pedagogical approach with the world.
"Unified Engineering is the signature course for aero/astro at the
undergraduate level and it embodies the essence of aerospace
engineering education at MIT," said
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/harris-0514.html>Professor Wesley
L. Harris, the head of the aero/astro department. "The opportunity
afforded us to publish Unified through OCW brings benefits to the
students, to the faculty involved in the teaching of the materials,
and to others outside of the department and beyond MIT. We are better
equipped to continuously improve Unified Engineering now that it is
so easily accessible to all our faculty."
The new course site features more than four times the volume of
educational materials of a typical one-semester MIT course -- about
1,500 different files, including
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>video
course introductions by Professors Charles Coleman and Ian Waitz,
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/UnifiedConcepts/index.htm>Lecture
Notes on the Unified Concept, and
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-01-04Fall2003-Spring2004/SystemsLabs/index.htm#video>Video
Footage of the semester project -- an aerial design contest.
During the spring semester, most systems problems relate to the
semester's aerial design competition. Teams of four or five students
work together to design an aircraft to achieve the highest score. To
optimize their system, each team must evaluate
trades between payload, endurance, maneuverability and durability,
subject to the constraints and objectives of the aerial competition.
Read more about Unified Engineering on the
<http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10042&typeid=156>Syllabus
Magazine Web site.
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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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). Copyright © (Year) (Faculty Member's Name)."
As an example, the citation for
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Linear-AlgebraFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
18.06 Linear Algebra taught by MIT Professor Gilbert Strang would
read, "This material was created or adapted from material created by
MIT faculty member Gilbert Strang, Professor. Copyright © 2002
Gilbert Strang."
If you want to use the materials on your Web site, you must also
include a copy of the MIT OCW
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>Creative Commons
license, or clear and reasonable link to its URL
(<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>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.
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