[edtech] MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 3, Issue 7

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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: July 2005

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The July 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. Tufts University OCW
2. A Frequently Asked Question
3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
4. Utah State University OCW
5. Japan OCW Alliance
6. Comments
7. Newsletter Available Online at 
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm


1. Tufts University OCW
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<http://ocw.mit.edu>MIT OpenCourseWare and the "opencourseware" 
concept is a part of the larger open knowledge movement that promotes 
free and unrestricted access to the primary teaching materials for 
courses taught at educational institutions. So we are pleased to tell 
subscribers about the launch of 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Newsletter1>Tufts University OCW, the 
fourth OCW project from a U.S. university along with MIT, the Johns 
Hopkins University School of Public Health, and Utah State University 
(see below).

Founded in 1852, Tufts University has a global reputation for 
academic and research excellence and innovation. Tufts' 8,500 
students study at the School of Arts and Sciences, School of 
Engineering, and the world renowned Fletcher School on Tufts' 
Medford/Somerville, MA, campus; at the Dental, Medical, Sackler and 
Friedman School of Nutrition on Tufts' Boston health sciences campus; 
and at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton, MA. 
Visit Tufts University online at 
<http://www.tufts.edu>http://www.tufts.edu.

Tufts launched its <http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Newsletter1>pilot 
OCW project in June with 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Newsletter1>six courses, with several 
more courses coming in September 2005. In joining MIT OCW and the 
other projects, in the U.S. and abroad, 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Newsletter1>Tufts OCW seeks to 
capitalize on the potential of the Internet to eliminate borders and 
geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of 
knowledge and new ideas.

Visit Tufts OCW at 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/?WT.mc_id=Newsletter1>http://ocw.tufts.edu to 
see the courses currently available, including 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/1/CourseHome>Epidemiology and 
Biostatistics, 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/2/CourseHome>Microbiology, 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/6/CourseHome>Pathophysiology of 
Infectious Diseases, 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/8/CourseHome>Theories of Public Policy, 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/4/CourseHome>Histology, and 
<http://ocw.tufts.edu/courses/5/CourseHome>Zoological Medicine.


2. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: How do I get a copy of the course pack for a particular MIT course?
ANSWER: The course-pack materials that accompany most MIT courses 
often contain proprietary information and copyrighted materials that 
MIT Faculty only use in their classroom interactions with MIT 
students. We cannot, therefore, make these materials openly available 
to MIT OCW users. If you are willing to pay for a course pack, you 
should contact MIT's Copy Technology Center, the group on MIT's 
campus that publishes course packs. Read more about the MIT 
course-pack program at 
<http://web.mit.edu/ctc/www/coursereader.htm>http://web.mit.edu/ctc/www/coursereader.htm.


3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
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The <http://www.jhsph.edu/index.html>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School 
of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD, is world-renowned as a 
leading international authority on public health. The 
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public 
Health's Opencourseware project provides access to the school's most 
popular courses.


4. Utah State University OCW
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<http://www.usu.edu/>Utah State University (USU) is one of the 
nation's premier land-grant and space-grant universities. 
<http://ocw.usu.edu>USU Opencourseware supports USU's institutional 
mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and 
engagement.


5. Japan OCW Alliance
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The top six universities in Japan -- Keio University, Kyoto 
University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the 
University of Tokyo, and Waseda University -- have announced the 
formation of the <http://www.jocw.jp/sub2.htm>Japan OCW Alliance. 
These six universities now offer open access to close to 100 courses, 
in both <http://www.jocw.jp/sub2.htm>English and 
<http://www.jocw.jp/sub1.htm>Japanese.


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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.

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