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EDUCATION REPORT - On the Web,
College Classes With No Charge (or
Credit)
By Nancy Steinbach / Broadcast date: Thursday, January 03, 2008
Source: http://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but growing number of colleges and
universities.
About one hundred sixty schools around the world now offer course materials free
online to the public. Recent additions in the United States include projects at Yale,
Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley said it will offer videos of lectures on
YouTube. Free videos from other schools are available
at the Apple iTunes store.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became an
early leader with its OpenCourseWare project, first
announced in two thousand one. Free lecture notes,
exams and other resources are published at
ocw.mit.edu. Many exams and homework assignments
even include the answers. The Web site also has
videos of lectures and demonstrations.
Today, OpenCourseWare offers materials from one
thousand eight hundred undergraduate and graduate
courses. These range from physics and linear algebra to anthropology, political
science -- even scuba diving.
Visitors can learn the same things M.I.T. students learn. But as the site points out,
OpenCourseWare is not an M.I.T. education. Visitors receive no credit toward a
degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not
provide contact with teachers.
MIT physics professor Walter
Lewin with a demonstration of
mechanical energy
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