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http://www.wiche.edu/wcet/resources/publications/ocw.pdf

MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative: Reading the Implications
WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION

This is the report of a forum concerning implications of the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative, convened in San Diego during December 2001 by the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), a project of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Three background papers were prepared for forum participants, and their substance is incorporated here. Their authors are Clara Lovett, President Emerita, Northern Arizona University, on institutional implications; Georgia Harper, of the University of Texas System, on intellectual property issues; and John Rose and Tarek Shawki of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on implications for developing countries. Briefing papers concerning programs under development at Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon University were prepared by Serge Goldstein and Joel Smith respectively. Related Web sites and portions of the project proposal to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation were also consulted. John Witherspoon prepared this report....

 



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