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MIT OpenCourseWare Update: May 2006
A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users
and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare
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The April 2006 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Available
2. Amazon Associates Program Partnership
3. Your Gift Sustains OCW Long-Term
4. ParisTech OCW
5. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
6. Tufts University OCW
7. Utah State University OCW
8. China Quality OCW
9. Japan OCW Alliance
10. FETP OCW in Vietnam
1. New Courses Available
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce the publication of 25 new courses as part of our Spring 2006 course publication cycle. With the conclusion of our Spring 2006 publication cycle, we now offer open access to the educational materials from 1400 courses total, including the following new courses:
- 3.080 - Economic and Environmental Issues in Materials Selection, Fall 2005
- 5.311 -- Introductory Chemical Experimentation, Fall 2005
- 6.877 -- Computational Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2005
- 6.883 -- Program Analysis, Fall 2005
- 6.895 -- Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution, Fall 2005
- 7.349 -- Biological Computing: At the Crossroads of Engineering and Science, Spring 2005
- 7.931 -- Concept-Centered Teaching, Fall 2005
- 9.20 -- Animal Behavior, Fall 2005
- 10.547 -- Principles and Practice of Drug Development, Fall 2005
- 11.308 -- Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design, Fall 2005
- 11.486 -- Economic Institutions and Growth Policy Analysis, Fall 2005
- 12.114 -- Field Geology I, Fall 2005
- 12.815 -- Atmospheric Radiation, Fall 2005
- 15.358 -- The Software Business, Fall 2005
- 15.818 -- Pricing, Spring 2005
- 16.885 -- Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
- 22.39 -- Integration of Reactor Design, Operations, and Safety, Fall 2005
- HST.510 -- Genomics, Computing, Economics, and Society, Fall 2005
- HST.590 -- Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Topics in Medical Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
- HST.721 -- The Peripheral Auditory System, Fall 2005
- PE.710 -- Tennis, Spring 2006
- PE.720 -- Weight Training, Spring 2006
- PE.730 -- Archery, Spring 2006
- PE.740 -- Fencing, Spring 2006
- SP.783 -- Engineering Capacity in Community Based Healthcare, Fall 2005
When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate newly published materials. MIT OCW will publish 150 new, and 75 more updated courses, in October 2006.
2. Amazon Associates Program Partnership
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Help support MIT OCW by shopping at Amazon.com! Partnering with Amazon.com, MIT OCW now offers direct links to purchase the books cited in all courses from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, such as Course 6.003 - Signals and Systems, Fall 2003. Click on the book titles and purchase the book from Amazon.com, and MIT OCW will receive up to 10% of all purchases you make. Your support will enable MIT to continue offering open access to MIT courses.
The Amazon Associates Program includes 1 million participating organizations and individuals around the world, and MIT OCW will conduct this pilot with all EECS courses through the end of September 2006.
3. Your Gift Sustains OCW Long-Term
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In offering free and open access to MIT courses, the MIT faculty are giving their educational materials to the world. But maintaining these courses, and evolving MIT OCW to meet the needs of our diverse user audience, has its costs. Thus, we depend on the generosity of users to sustain the MIT OCW project long term. We now offer a quick link to the "Donating to MIT OCW" section on every page on the MIT OCW Web site. Look for the following button at the the top of every page:
Hit this button, and you will find that giving your gift to MIT OCW is easy, and that the Giving to MIT Web site is a safe and secure way to financially support MIT OCW. MIT OCW will always be a free and open digital publication, however, your $50, $100, or $500 donation will enable us to continue to offer a high-quality publication of MIT's course materials.
4. ParisTech OCW
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ParisTech is a collective entity that includes 11 of the most prestigious engineering schools in France. Each of its member institutions is known as the best in France in its particular field. The research and teaching at the 11 institutions is complementary and cover virtually all sectors of the various engineering sciences. We encouraged users to visit the ParisTech OpenCourseWare project at http://paristech.polytechnique.fr/catalogue/?langue=EN
5. 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 20 of the school's most popular courses.
6. Tufts University OCW
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Tufts University, with campuses in Boston, Medford, Somerville and Grafton, MA, has a global reputation for academic and research excellence, and innovation. The Tufts OpenCourseWare project demonstrate Tufts' strength in the life sciences, as well a multi-disciplinary approach, an international perspective, and an underlying ethic of service to the university's local, national, and international communities.
7. 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, and is available at http://ocw.usu.edu.
In addition, for those institutions interested in implementing their own "OpenCourseWare" project, Utah State University's Center for Open Sustainable Learning has developed eduCommons, an OpenCourseWare Management System designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects such as MIT OCW and USU OCW. For more information on eduCommons, go to http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/
8. China Quality OCW (CNQOCW)
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China Open Resources for Education (CORE), MIT OCW's Chinese language translation partner, now offers links to more than 450 China Quality OpenCourseWare (CNQOCW) courses for use and sharing in China and globally. In addition, CORE has translated 115 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese, which are available at http://www.core.org.cn/OCW_CN/Global/all-courses.htm
9. Japan OCW Alliance
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The leading nine universities in Japan -- Hokkaido University, Keio University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, Nagoya University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University -- have formed the Japan OCW Alliance. These six universities now offer open access to more than 100 courses, in both English and Japanese.
10. FETP OCW in Vietnam
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Inspired by the MIT OCW initiative, the Fulbright School Economics Teaching Program (FETP) in Vietnam launched FETP OpenCourseWare in 2003, the first "opencourseware" project to launch after MIT OCW opened in September 2002. The Fulbright School participates with other academic institutions in Vietnam to promote the use of innovative long-distance learning activities.