[edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 9

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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: September 2004

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The September 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. 900 Courses Now Available!
2. MIT OCW Featured on CNN
3. Digging Deeper: Course 15.040
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. 900 Courses Now Available
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Team is pleased to announce that 200 more 
courses have been published to bring the total number of courses 
available at http://ocw.mit.edu to 900, 905 to be exact! This 
publication is very significant as it represents the halfway mark to 
MIT's publicly stated goal of 1800 courses published by 2008.

Today's publication represents a significant achievement for people 
across the Institute who worked with the MIT OCW Team over the last 
six months, including the MIT Libraries, MIT's department heads, and 
most importantly, MIT's remarkable faculty. More than half of MIT's 
faculty -- 540 of 950 -- have now voluntarily participated in MIT 
OCW, and we know that MIT OCW would not be succeeding were it not for 
the faculty's dedication to MIT's institutional mission and belief in 
the promise of openly sharing their materials through OpenCourseWare.

We are pleased to call your attention to the following new MIT 
courses. When looking at the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm>complete MIT OCW 
Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate courses recently 
published:

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/index.htm>Aeronautics 
and Astronautics (link to department course list)
16.30 -- Estimation and Control of Aerospace Systems, Spring 2004
16.337J -- Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems, Fall 2003
16.422 -- Human Supervisory Control of Automated Systems, Spring 2004
16.652 -- Inventions and Patents, Fall 2003
16.812 -- The Aerospace Industry, Spring 2004

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/index.htm>Anthropology
21A.212 -- Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism, Spring 2004
21A.230J -- The Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004
21A.240 -- Race and Science, Spring 2004
21A.336 -- Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating 
Globalization, Spring 2004
21A.340J -- Technology and Culture, Fall 2003
21A.441 -- The Conquest of America, Spring 2004

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Architecture/index.htm>Architecture
4.132 -- Architecture Design, Level III: Cuba Studio, Spring 2004
4.173 -- Digital Mock-Up Workshop, Spring 2004
4.183 -- Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop, Spring 2004
4.184 -- Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form, Spring 2004
4.212 -- Design Fabrication, Spring 2003
4.240J -- Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and 
Representing the City, Fall 2002
4.411 -- Building Technology Laboratory, Spring 2004
4.442 -- Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II, Fall 2002
4.463 -- Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II, Fall 2002

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering-Division/index.htm>Biological 
Engineering Division
BE.011J -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Spring 2004

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/index.htm>Biology
7.340 -- Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host 
Surveillance, Spring 2004

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemical-Engineering/index.htm>Chemical Engineering
10.652J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/index.htm>Chemistry
5.13 -- Organic Chemistry II, Fall 2003
5.46 -- Organic Structure Determination, Spring 2004
5.68J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/index.htm>Civil 
and Environmental Engineering
1.00 -- Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving, Fall 2002
1.040 -- Project Management, Spring 2004
1.050 -- Solid Mechanics, Fall 2002
1.061 -- Transport Processes in the Environment, Fall 2002
1.260J -- Logistics Systems, Fall 2003
1.34 -- Waste Containment and Remediation Technology, Spring 2004
1.401J -- Project Management, Spring 2004
1.46 -- Strategic Management in the Design and Construction Value 
Chain, Fall 2003
1.571 -- Structural Analysis and Control, Spring 2004

<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/index.htm>Earth, 
Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
12.010 -- Computational Methods of Scientific Programming, Fall 2002
12.570 -- Structure and Dynamics of the CMB Region, Spring 2004
12.950 -- Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling, Spring 2004



2. MIT OCW Featured on CNN
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As MIT OCW's 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/evaluation.htm>evaluation 
findings have shown, awareness and use of the MIT OCW Web site 
directly correlates to media coverage. Because we want as many people 
as possible to benefit from the MIT faculty's materials that we 
publish, we are excited that MIT OCW continues to receive very 
positive media coverage, both here in the United States and abroad.

The biggest media exposure to date for MIT OCW will be a recurring 
appearance on <http://edition.cnn.com/>CNN International over the 
course of the next four weeks, ensuring that MIT OCW will be 
appearing in every hotel and airport around the world for the next 
month!

The segment on MIT OCW is part of a monthly program called 
<http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/global.challenges/>Global 
Challenges, set to air Sunday nights September 19 and 26, and October 
3 and 10. The six-minute segment on MIT OCW premiered last Sunday, 
September 12, and we saw very significant spikes in traffic to the 
MIT OCW Web site on September 12 and 13. The segment will air on the 
United States version of CNN on the program 
<http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/next/index.html>Next at CNN on a 
yet-to-be-determined date.



3. Digging Deeper: Course 15.040
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What are the choices that we make that affect others in the 
workplace, and what are the choices that others make that affect us? 
Such situations are known as "games" and game-playing, while it may 
sound whimsical, is serious business. Managers frequently play 
"games" both within the firm and outside it -- with competitors, 
customers, regulators, and even capital markets!

That is the premise of 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course 
15.040 -- Game Theory for Managers, Spring 2004, Professor David 
McAdams' graduate-level course from the 
<http://mitsloan.mit.edu/indexflash.php>MIT Sloan School of 
Management. MIT students in this course use game theory in the 
interactive games they play against each other both in class and 
online -- including the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/98CCCC9E-D2D8-4EC0-ADA6-86442C377972/0/lec6_price_game.pdf>Dynamic 
Pricing Game, the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/74A9B593-67FD-42EB-9A4D-4A4730EB36B0/0/lec3_bluff_game.pdf>Bluffing 
Game, and the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/B321E7A7-42F9-4956-B990-3F0E2F63E88F/0/lec8_angry_game.pdf>Angry 
Negotiation Game, as described on the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/Games/index.htm>Games 
page.

The three team 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/Assignments/index.htm>Assignments 
offer a problem set on "Structuring a Bond Swap," an assignment to 
write a "Strategy Memo" addressed to the corporate office manager, 
and a "Real-World Application."

Professor McAdams also offers a complete set of 11 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/LectureNotes/index.htm>Lecture 
Notes, a rich list of Readings, and a
<http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/586AD72E-A65E-4D31-ABEF-C6B0ED9025A0/0/final.pdf>Practice 
Final Exam, along with the 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040Spring2004/51D4226F-5AE3-464B-8C8F-2674ECEC008B/0/final_soln.pdf>Solutions.



4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: What uses of MIT OCW materials are allowed?
ANSWER: The underlying purpose of MIT OCW is to make course materials 
used in MIT courses freely and openly available to others for 
non-commercial educational purposes. MIT grants the right to anyone 
to use the materials, either "as is," or in a modified form. There is 
no restriction on how a user can modify the materials -- they may be 
edited, translated, combined with someone else's materials, 
reformatted, or changed in any other way. However, there are three 
requirements that an MIT OCW user must meet to make use of the 
materials:
Non-commercial: A commercial use would involve the assessment of a 
direct or indirect fee for use of the MIT OCW materials in order to 
derive a profit, or any derivation or modification of the MIT OCW 
material for the purposes of commercial exploitation.
Attribution: Any and all use or reuse of the material, including use 
of derivative works (new materials that incorporate or draw on the 
original materials), must be attributed to MIT and, if a faculty 
member's name is associated with the material, to that person as well.
Share alike (aka "copyleft"): Any publication or distribution of 
original or derivative works, including production of electronic or 
printed class materials or placement of materials on a Web site, must 
offer the works freely and openly to others under the same terms MIT 
OCW makes the works available to users.

To discover more about MIT OCW's 
<http://creativecommons.org/>Creative Commons use license, please 
visit the <http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm>Legal 
Notices page of the MIT OCW Web site.


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