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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
MIT's OpenCourseWare reaches an important milestone - John Jerney, The Daily Yomiuri
.... The OpenCourseWare initiative has been compared to the Open Source movement of software development, where developers volunteer their time to create mostly free software. In fact, MIT stipulates that the available course material can only be adopted for noncommercial use, and any derivative of the material must be offered freely to others. In the end, OpenCourseWare initiative represents an impressive achievement that, in two short years, has ballooned from a hacked proof-of-concept to an incredible, and free, online educational resource. The most interesting aspect of this type of project is the potentially unexpected and unforeseeable benefits that will likely accrue.
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