Showing posts with label OpenCourseWare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OpenCourseWare. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Learn from World-Class Universities and Get Smarter for Free

The Creative Commons movement founder director Hal Abelson is also credited with influencing the creation of the OpenCourseWare concept, which grants the free use of university materials online to the general population. OpenCourseWare began in 2001 as an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to offer an innovative and more democratic way to share knowledge with the world.