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October 08, 2003

MIT publishes 500 courses worth of free info

MIT for free, virtually

Last modified: September 29, 2003, 5:49 PM PDT
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials available to the world for free download.

One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information.

"The real hope is that we start seeing many open courseware programs, with the net result of there being a critical mass of knowledge online for people everywhere," said Jon Paul Potts, communications manager for the program. "If that happened, people all over the world would be able to tap into reserves of knowledge from major large institutions around the globe."

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