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The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: April 2005

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users

and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare

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The April 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:

1. New MIT Courses Brings Total to 1100

2. A Frequently Asked Question

3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

4. Utah State University OCW

5. Comments

6. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm

1. New MIT Courses Brings Total to 1100

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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce that with the publication of 175 new courses in the month of April, there are now 1100 total courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu.

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:

2. A Frequently Asked Question

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QUESTION: What is an "IAP" course?

ANSWER:  The Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a special four-week term held each year at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. For more than three decades, IAP has provided members of the MIT community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) with a unique opportunity to organize, sponsor, and participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, and contests. For students and faculty, IAP also offers opportunities for creativity in teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to set their own educational agendas, pursue independent projects, meet with faculty, or pursue many other options not possible during the semester. Faculty are free to introduce innovative educational experiments as IAP activities. Several of these educational experiments are published on the MIT OCW Web site as complete courses: Course 5.301 Chemistry Laboratory Techniques, IAP 2004, for example, includes a series of chemistry laboratory instructional videos called the Digital Lab Techniques Manual (DLTM) that are used as supplementary material for this course, as well as other courses offered by the MIT Department of Chemistry. Read more about MIT's Independent Activities Period.

3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD, is world-renowned as a leading international authority on public health. Every day, JHSPH works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in the field and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in the global defense of human life. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Opencourseware project provides access to the school's most popular courses.

4. Utah State University OCW

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Utah State University (USU) is one of the nation's premier student-centered land-grant and space-grant universities. Located in Logan City, UT, USU faculty receive national recognition for their teaching and research, and USU can count four Goldwater Scholars and a Rhodes Scholar among its graduates in recent years. USU Opencourseware supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. As USU enters the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare enable the University to more fully accomplish its land-grant mission.

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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.

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