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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: July 2005

A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users

and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare

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The July 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:

1. Tufts University OCW

2. A Frequently Asked Question

3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW

4. Utah State University OCW

5. Japan OCW Alliance

6. Comments

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

1. Tufts University OCW

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MIT OpenCourseWare and the "opencourseware" concept is a part of the larger open knowledge movement that promotes free and unrestricted access to the primary teaching materials for courses taught at educational institutions. So we are pleased to tell subscribers about the launch of Tufts University OCW, the fourth OCW project from a U.S. university along with MIT, the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and Utah State University (see below).

Founded in 1852, Tufts University has a global reputation for academic and research excellence and innovation. Tufts' 8,500 students study at the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, and the world renowned Fletcher School on Tufts' Medford/Somerville, MA, campus; at the Dental, Medical, Sackler and Friedman School of Nutrition on Tufts' Boston health sciences campus; and at Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton, MA. Visit Tufts University online at http://www.tufts.edu.

Tufts launched its pilot OCW project in June with six courses, with several more courses coming in September 2005. In joining MIT OCW and the other projects, in the U.S. and abroad, Tufts OCW seeks to capitalize on the potential of the Internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas.

Visit Tufts OCW at http://ocw.tufts.edu to see the courses currently available, including Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Microbiology, Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases, Theories of Public Policy, Histology, and Zoological Medicine.

2. A Frequently Asked Question

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QUESTION: How do I get a copy of the course pack for a particular MIT course?

ANSWER: The course-pack materials that accompany most MIT courses often contain proprietary information and copyrighted materials that MIT Faculty only use in their classroom interactions with MIT students. We cannot, therefore, make these materials openly available to MIT OCW users. If you are willing to pay for a course pack, you should contact MIT's Copy Technology Center, the group on MIT's campus that publishes course packs. Read more about the MIT course-pack program at http://web.mit.edu/ctc/www/coursereader.htm.

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. 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 land-grant and space-grant universities. USU Opencourseware supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement.

5. Japan OCW Alliance

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The top six universities in Japan -- Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University -- have announced the formation of the Japan OCW Alliance. These six universities now offer open access to close to 100 courses, in both English and Japanese.

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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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