Kako besplatno pohađati M.I.T.
Članak iz časopisa Christian Science Monitor me je pokrenuo da napišem ovo. Članak sam pročitao zahvaljujući gosp. Arunachalamu preko Open Access and Information for Development grupe, a tema je otvoren pristup znanju.
Iz članka (kurziv je moj):
By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won’t have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted.
The cost? It’s all free of charge.
The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn.
Intended as an act of “intellectual philanthropy,” OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides free access to course materials such as syllabi, video or audio lectures, notes, homework assignments, illustrations, and so on. So far, by giving away their content, the universities aren’t discouraging students from enrolling as students. Instead, the online materials appear to be only whetting appetites for more.
“We believe strongly that education can be best advanced when knowledge is shared openly and freely,” says Anne Margulies, executive director of the OCW program at MIT. “MIT is using the power of the Internet to give away all of the educational materials created here.”
Pored samih video i tekst materijala na sajtu OpenCourseWare, postoje i grupe za diskusiju na sajtu Open Learning Support pri univerzitetu Jute.
Neke materijale sa MIT-ovog sajta sam već pratio, zato što sam poštovalac lika i dela Ričarda Fejnmana, te sam nekako došao do video materijala u sekciji linkovi. Ali, članak iz Christian Monitora me je pokrenuo da napišem nešto više.
Veoma plemenita stvar, širiti znanje bez zahteva za novčanom nadoknadom. Cilj naučnika i jeste da se napravi bolji i napredniji svet, te je ovaj korak samo još jedan u tom smeru.
Repozitorije otvorenog znanja sa časopisima, radovima, istraživanjima i drugim materijalom su brojne na Internetu. Najveći spisak takvih sajtova možete naći na sajtu GNU/Linux Centra Beograda (koji se ne bavi samo GNU/Linuxom, već i širenjem znanja).
Što više znaš - više vrediš…
January 7th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Sloboda pristup ainformacijama je u sustini slobodnog softvera, jer slobodni softver nije primarno stvar tehnologije vec slobode pristupa tekstu sa njegovim ekspresijama. Zato ima potpuno smisla zasto se Linux centar bavi time.
pozdrav,
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