MIT Open Courseware

Folks -

AS you may know, MIT has released its OpenCourseWare
<http://ocw.mit.edu/> to the public.  OCW is basically a repository of
MIT's syllabuses, lecture notes, readings, schedules, etc for bunches of
their courses.  It is *not* distance learning or pre-packaged classes
that you can take.

That shouldn't stop us from trying.

I propose to try and "take" some MIT courses, using the OCW they have
provided.  Since education often benefits from other students, I'd like
to see if any of you would like to take a course with me.

As an offshoot of this, we could set up a web site with links to
readings, resources, discussion boards, etc for any of the courses we
take, and, eventually, allow other groups to use the facilities we
develop to "take" other courses.

Here are the classes that particularly interest me:

11.943J Urban Transportation, Land Use, and the Environment Spring 2002
17.01J Justice Fall 2002
17.30J Fundamentals of Public Policy Fall 2002
17.471 American National Security Policy Fall 2002
21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2004
21F.034 Media, Education, and the Marketplace Fall 2001
21H.223 War & American Society Fall 2002
21H.418 Technologies of Word 1450-2000 Fall 2002

Some of these courses have more complete course materials than others,
and that should certainly be a criterion for selection.  All of the
course titles are listed at
<http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm>.  Other suggestions
are welcome.

Any takers?

Niel

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