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Отправлено: 17 сентября 2004 г. 17:37
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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
6. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm


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:

Aeronautics and Astronautics (link to department course list)
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

Anthropology
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

Architecture
4.132 -- 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

Biological Engineering Division
BE.011J -- Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Spring 2004

Biology
7.340 -- Immune Evasion: How Sneaky Pathogens Avoid Host Surveillance, Spring 2004

Chemical Engineering
10.652J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003

Chemistry
5.13 -- Organic Chemistry II, Fall 2003
5.46 -- Organic Structure Determination, Spring 2004
5.68J -- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions, Spring 2003

Civil and Environmental Engineering
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

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
12.010 -- Computational Methods of Scientific Programming, Fall 2002
12.570 -- Structure and Dynamics of the CMB Region, 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!

That is the premise of Course 15.040 -- Game Theory for Managers, Spring 2004, Professor David McAdams' graduate-level course from the MIT Sloan School of Management. MIT students in this course use game theory in the interactive games they play against each other both in class and online -- including the Dynamic Pricing Game, the Bluffing Game, and the Angry Negotiation Game, as described on the Games page.

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
Practice Final Exam, along with the Solutions.



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:

To discover more about MIT OCW's Creative Commons use license, please visit the Legal Notices page of the MIT OCW Web site.


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