MIT’s Open CourseWare goes live:
October 2nd, 2002
The MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) project released pilots of its first courses this week.
This is a great initiative. MIT is making content generated by its faculty (lectures, exams, reading lists, etc.) available for free for use by the educational community.
I was surprised that everything was PDF & HTML, but looking at their timeline, I see that formatting situation is part of the current pilot phase. The official “launch” — with XML-formatted, metadata-tagged, searchable content — is still a year away.