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From: Dr Andrew Thorniley <andrew@...>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:48:54 +0000
To: Critical Care Medicine Listserv <ccm-l@...>
Subject: [ccm-l] OpenCourseWare - More education
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Here's a news bulletin..
According to EETimes, [1]MIT is planning on putting its entire 1800
course curriculum online for free by the end of the year:

On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the
university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end.
Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120
universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for
independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums
available online to date.
Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that
17% were educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were
self learners. Other learners come from nations all over the world,
from Antarctica to Darfur. He notes that the highest traffic in the
United States comes from leading high-tech states Massachusetts and
California. South Korea has a sizable base, accounting for a higher
number of learners than, for instance, in China, its neighbor. Many
learners are college teachers and professors, who want to sharpen
their own teaching courses and methods. In a typical example,
physics professor Younes Attaourti of Marrakesh, Morocco, has used
MIT materials for his courses on statistical physics and quantum
theory.

This address will get you to a page of the OCW consortium and the
courses available.
[2]http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
and this one will get you to TUFTS and a section on infectious
diseases.
[3]http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/6
or
[4]http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
--
Dr Andrew Thorniley
Consultant Anaesthetist
Clinical Director of Anaesthesia and Surgery
The Hillingdon Hospital
Uxbridge

References

1.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AVUPWC314LSUUQSN\
DLSCKHA?articleID=198000598
2. http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
3. http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/6
4. http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList

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