Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, November 26, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001112601u.htm

MIT Begins Effort to Create Public Web Pages for More Than 2,000 Courses
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun the pilot phase of its closely watched plan to create detailed Web pages for nearly all of its courses and develop courseware tools that other institutions could use free. In the process, officials at MIT are finding that professors' skill levels vary dramatically when it comes to using the Web in their courses -- which could make it difficult to create a system that is flexible enough to meet everyone's needs....

 



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