MIT is Giving it Away
MIT has shipped its course materials on hard drives to 84 sites in Africa. This is to enable institutions to store the educational material locally on their own networks. These resources are readily available online, but accessing them via the Internet would have been too much for the African schools’ networks to handle. Elite universities in the USA are going open source with a lot of course material these days and people in developing nations around the World are able to benefit from the information.
Another prestigious school, Berkeley, is putting entire course lectures on YouTube. Here is one of them, if you have 40 minutes to spare, check it out…
Source for this post: Wired News
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Martin, your link for this just showed up at my blog today. I don’t know why it does that sometimes. I’ll link you up when I do the Good Stuff meme this coming Thursday, but feel free to submit other good-news stuff, too. This one is great!
Comment by skeet — January 1, 2008 @ 6:12 am
I knew I was not on time, It’s so rare that I post anything that qualifies as good news.
Comment by Martin — January 1, 2008 @ 10:53 am
[…] knows good citizenship when he sees it and wants to commend MIT for giving their course materials to African shcools that would not have been able to access it through regular online […]
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