[edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 3, Issue 3
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: March 2005
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The March 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Published
2. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
3. Utah State University OCW
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. New Courses Published
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<http://ocw.mit.edu>MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to
announce that 175 new courses will be published over the course of
the next month, which will push the total number of courses available
at http://ocw.mit.edu to almost 1100.
This Spring 2005 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. Close to two-thirds
of MIT's faculty 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/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/1-782Fall-2003-Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
1.782 - Environmental Engineering MEng Project, Fall 2003 - Spring
2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-801Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
6.801 - Machine Vision, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-343Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
7.343 - Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Human Disease, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-344Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
7.344 - RNA Interference: A New Tool for Genetic Analysis and
Therapeutics, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-511Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
8.511 - Theory of Solids, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-368Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
11.368 - Environmental Justice, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-864Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
12.864 - Inference from Data and Models, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Economics/14-06Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
14.06 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-778Summer-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
15.778 - Management of Supply Networks for Products and Services,
Summer 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-974Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
15.974 - Practical Leadership, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-315Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.315 - Comparative Health Policy, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-428Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.428 - American Foreign Policy: Theory and Method, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-460Fall-2002/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.460 - Defense Politics, Fall 2002
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-484Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.484 - Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-952Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.952 - Great Power Military Intervention, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-953Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.953 - U.S. Military Budget and Force Planning, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-960Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
17.960 - Foundations of Political Science, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-305Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
18.305 - Advanced Analytic Methods in Science and Engineering, Fall
2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-315Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
18.315 - Combinatorial Theory: Hyperplane Arrangements, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-338JFall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
18.338J - Infinite Random Matrix Theory, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-965Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
18.965 - Geometry of Manifolds, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-342Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21A.342 - Environmental Struggles, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-705Spring-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21F.705 - Oral Communication in Spanish, Spring 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-712Fall-2003/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21F.712 - Spanish Conversation and Composition, Fall 2003
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-301Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21H.301 - The Ancient World: Greece, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-430Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21L.430 - Popular Narrative: Masterminds, Fall 2004
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-702Fall-2004/CourseHome/index.htm>Course
21L.702 - Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of
19th-Century America, Fall 2004
2. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
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MIT OCW 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 it is with great excitement that we are pleased to
tell subscribers about the creation of two new OCW projects, at the
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu/>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health and <http://ocw.usu.edu/>Utah State University.
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. Every day, JHSPH
works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury
by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in
the field and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in
the global defense of human life.
In February, JHSPH opened its <http://ocw.jhsph.edu>pilot OCW project
with two courses and has since added two more; six more courses are
scheduled for publication in April 2005. As part of its mission to
protect health and prevent disease and disability, JHSPH feels a
moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and
knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their
potential solutions. At the heart of every public health triumph is
an individual. <http://ocw.jhsph.edu>JHSPH OCW provides encouragement
for the self-learner to seek formal education, complementary
materials for the student at JHSPH or another institution,
information with which faculty can plan a course curriculum, and
continuing education for the public health practitioner.
Visit JHSPH OCW at http://ocw.jhsph.edu to see the courses currently
available,
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/UnderstandingCostEffectiveness/>Understanding
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care, Spring 2005,
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/StatisticalReasoning1/>Statistical
Reasoning I, Fall 2004,
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/FamilyPlanning/>Family Planning
Policies and Programs, Spring 2005, and
<http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/immunizationPrograms/>Problem Solving
for Immunization Programs, Winter 2004.
3. Utah State University OCW
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<http://www.usu.edu/>Utah State University (USU) is one of the
nation's premier student-centered land-grant and space-grant
universities. Located in scenic Logan City, UT, USU faculty receive
national recognition for their teaching and research in publications
such as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, and USA Today. USU can count four Goldwater
Scholars and a Rhodes Scholar among its graduates in recent years.
<http://ocw.usu.edu>USU OCW supports USU's institutional mission to
serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. It is
true to USU's guiding principle that academics come first. As USU
enters the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare enable the
University to more fully accomplish its land-grant mission.
The <http://ocw.usu.edu>USU OCW pilot project opened in February with
eight courses from six disciplines. Visit the USU pilot project at
http://ocw.usu.edu to discover what courses are available, including
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2005-01-04.4060386981/course.2005-01-04.5349642866/Course_listing>Cultural
Anthropology,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2004-12-20.1328839294/course.2005-01-19.7202583537/Course_listing>Biochemical
Engineering,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2004-12-20.1328839294/course.2004-12-24.5449159931/Course_listing>Irrigation
Conveyance and Control Systems,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2004-12-20.1328839294/course.2004-12-22.7704203541/Course_listing>Sprinkle
and Trickle Irrigation,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2005-01-27.4608626113/course.2005-01-28.8455650901/Course_listing>Soil-based
Hazardous Waste Management,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2004-12-29.9286476474/course.2005-01-08.2862528806/Course_listing>History
of Utah,
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2005-01-03.9290525154/course.2005-01-04.2998066821/Course_listing>Understanding
Online Interaction, and
<http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses/department.2005-01-07.0201380510/course.2005-01-07.1479971233/Course_listing>Computer
Assisted Language For Non-English Speakers: Spanish.
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: How do I contact a specific member of the MIT Faculty?
ANSWER: MIT OCW is intended as a publication of MIT course materials
on the Web, and not as an interactive experience with MIT faculty. It
provides the content of, but is not a substitute for, an MIT
education. The most fundamental cornerstone of the learning process
at MIT is the interaction between faculty and students in the
classroom, and among students themselves on campus. MIT OCW does not
offer visitors to the Web site the opportunity for direct contact
with MIT faculty. Inquiries related to specific course materials will
be forwarded to the MIT faculty member associated with that course
for their consideration. However, due to the tremendous volume of
email inquiries received, it is unlikely he or she will answer all
emails.
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