От: ocw-mail@MIT.EDU
Отправлено: 17 сентября 2004 г.
17:37
Кому: ocw-mail@MIT.EDU
Тема: The MIT OpenCourseWare
Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 9
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: September 2004
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The September 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. 900 Courses Now Available!
2. MIT OCW Featured on CNN
3. Digging Deeper: Course 15.040
4. A Frequently Asked Question
5. Comments
1. 900 Courses Now Available
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The MIT OpenCourseWare Team is pleased to announce that 200 more courses
have been published to bring the total number of courses available at
http://ocw.mit.edu to 900, 905 to be exact! This publication is very significant
as it represents the halfway mark to MIT's publicly stated goal of 1800 courses
published by 2008.
Today's publication represents a significant achievement for people across
the Institute who worked with the MIT OCW Team over the last six months,
including the MIT Libraries, MIT's department heads, and most importantly, MIT's
remarkable faculty. More than half of MIT's faculty -- 540 of 950 -- have now
voluntarily participated in MIT OCW, and we know that MIT OCW would not be
succeeding were it not for the faculty's dedication to MIT's institutional
mission and belief in the promise of openly sharing their materials through
OpenCourseWare.
We are pleased to call your attention to the following new MIT courses.
When looking at the
complete MIT OCW Course
List, look for the red
NEW to indicate
courses recently published:
16.30 -- Estimation and Control of Aerospace Systems, Spring
2004
16.337J -- Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems, Fall 2003
16.422 -- Human
Supervisory Control of Automated Systems, Spring 2004
16.652 -- Inventions
and Patents, Fall 2003
16.812 -- The Aerospace Industry, Spring 2004
21A.212 -- Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism, Spring 2004
21A.230J -- The
Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004
21A.240 -- Race and Science, Spring
2004
21A.336 -- Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization,
Spring 2004
21A.340J -- Technology and Culture, Fall 2003
21A.441 -- The
Conquest of America, Spring 2004
Architecture4.132
-- Architecture Design, Level III: Cuba Studio, Spring 2004
4.173 -- Digital
Mock-Up Workshop, Spring 2004
4.183 -- Sustainable Design and Technology
Research Workshop, Spring 2004
4.184 -- Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form, Spring
2004
4.212 -- Design Fabrication, Spring 2003
4.240J -- Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing
the City, Fall 2002
4.411 -- Building Technology Laboratory, Spring
2004
4.442 -- Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II, Fall
2002
4.463 -- Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II, Fall
2002
BE.011J -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Spring
2004
7.340 -- Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance,
Spring 2004
10.652J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003
Chemistry5.13 --
Organic Chemistry II, Fall 2003
5.46 -- Organic Structure Determination,
Spring 2004
5.68J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003
1.00 -- Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving, Fall
2002
1.040 -- Project Management, Spring 2004
1.050 -- Solid Mechanics,
Fall 2002
1.061 -- Transport Processes in the Environment, Fall
2002
1.260J -- Logistics Systems, Fall 2003
1.34 -- Waste Containment and
Remediation Technology, Spring 2004
1.401J -- Project Management, Spring
2004
1.46 -- Strategic Management in the Design and Construction Value Chain,
Fall 2003
1.571 -- Structural Analysis and Control, Spring 2004
12.950 -- Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling, Spring 2004
2. MIT OCW Featured on CNN
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As MIT OCW's
evaluation
findings have shown, awareness and use of the MIT OCW Web site directly
correlates to media coverage. Because we want as many people as possible to
benefit from the MIT faculty's materials that we publish, we are excited that
MIT OCW continues to receive very positive media coverage, both here in the
United States and abroad.
The biggest media exposure to date for MIT OCW will be a recurring
appearance on
CNN International over the
course of the next four weeks, ensuring that MIT OCW will be appearing in every
hotel and airport around the world for the next month!
The segment on MIT OCW is part of a monthly program called
Global
Challenges, set to air Sunday nights September 19 and 26, and October 3 and
10. The six-minute segment on MIT OCW premiered last Sunday, September 12, and
we saw very significant spikes in traffic to the MIT OCW Web site on September
12 and 13. The segment will air on the United States version of CNN on the
program
Next@CNN
on a yet-to-be-determined date.
3. Digging Deeper: Course 15.040
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What are the choices that we make that affect others in the workplace, and
what are the choices that others make that affect us? Such situations are known
as "games" and game-playing, while it may sound whimsical, is serious business.
Managers frequently play "games" both within the firm and
outside it -- with competitors, customers, regulators, and even capital
markets!
The three team
Assignments
offer a problem set on "Structuring a Bond Swap," an assignment to write a
"Strategy Memo" addressed to the corporate office manager, and a "Real-World
Application."
Professor McAdams also offers a complete set of 11
Lecture
Notes, a rich list of Readings, and a
4. A Frequently Asked Question
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QUESTION: What uses of MIT OCW materials are allowed?
ANSWER: The underlying purpose of MIT OCW is to make course materials used
in MIT courses freely and openly available to others for non-commercial
educational purposes. MIT grants the right to anyone to use the materials,
either "as is," or in a modified form. There is no restriction on how a user can
modify the materials -- they may be edited, translated, combined with someone
else's materials, reformatted, or changed in any other way. However, there are
three requirements that an MIT OCW user must meet to make use of the
materials:
- Non-commercial: A commercial use would involve the assessment of a
direct or indirect fee for use of the MIT OCW materials in order to derive a
profit, or any derivation or modification of the MIT OCW material for the
purposes of commercial exploitation.
- Attribution: Any and all use or reuse of the material, including
use of derivative works (new materials that incorporate or draw on the
original materials), must be attributed to MIT and, if a faculty member's name
is associated with the material, to that person as well.
- Share alike (aka "copyleft"): Any publication or distribution of
original or derivative works, including production of electronic or printed
class materials or placement of materials on a Web site, must offer the works
freely and openly to others under the same terms MIT OCW makes the works
available to users.
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is a
large-scale, Web-based publishing initiative with the goal of providing free,
searchable access to MIT course materials for educators, students, and
individual learners around the world. These materials are offered in a single,
searchable structure spanning all of MIT's academic disciplines, and include
uniform metadata about the contents of the individual subject sites.
"The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" welcomes your feedback and suggestions
about this newsletter and the MIT OCW Web site. Please send your feedback to Jon
Paul Potts, MIT OCW Communications Manager, at
jpotts@mit.edu.