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October 02, 2002

MIT's Open CourseWare goes live:

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.

Posted October 2, 2002 09:57 AM