Saturday, May 05, 2012

Mit's half hearted support to open coursework

It is preposterous that Mit claims themselves to be committed for open learning. If one goes to their website one find only a dozen course which can be used by students to enhance their learning. Most of these courses are very basic and one can find better modular courses over the net. There are no video lectures for the advanced courses and which is a pity considering the outstanding faculty that they have. If Mit wants to be really serious about pushing the education standard worldwide instead of just shamelelssly bragging about its little contribution to OCW movement they should take a leaf out of much smaller school like UCCS or India's nptel model. Where they post all the video lectures on YouTube. It seems that Mit's OCW bosses are milking big foundations instead of really being committed to the cause they drum at all open coursework sites. They have the opportunity to really stand out instead if being follower.

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