From: JDP (jacques@dtext.com)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 08:13:41 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury a écrit (29.8.2003/10:17) :
>
> MIT Everywhere
> Wired Magazine, Issue 11.09 (September 2003)
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit_pr.html
Ouahou*! Nice indeed. The web site is at http://ocw.mit.edu/
One reservation, though. I browsed some courses I was interested in,
and couldn't find actual course materials. Syllabus, yes, Calendar,
yes, Readings list, yes, Assignments, yes, Exams, yes, Related
resources, yes, but where are the actual contents?
After some more frustrating clicking and wondering what obvious thing
I could be missing, it turned out that, unless there is a "Lecture
notes" entry on the left, no actual course materials are included,
only the "meta" stuff. Based on my tries, most courses have no lecture
notes, and within the minority that have Lecture notes, most have only
a few items (like, lecture 1, 2, 7, 14 and 16).
I loudly applaud (shouting a bit, too) to the fantastic initiative,
and just hope it comes into existence on a larger scale. (In the
meantime, they should make this more explicit.)
(And, they could go one step further by granting commercial use. For
scientific content largely based on collective effort, it might make
some philosophical sense.)
Jacques
* French for wow.
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