I think this world-wide movement toward online education is very exciting. The next stage will be AUTOMATED online ed (with robo-professors). Then the first step is taken toward creating a giant world-wide machine intelligence, a knowledge machine.
POC On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, kirk wrote: > Britain is far ahead of the US it seems. > This from a friend in the UK: > > We have had the open university for decades,it is nice to see that America > has finaly caught on to what we have been doing for so long that its first > TV broadcasts were black and white!! Some of the archive programs are so old > that the presenters are wearing 1970's fashion items and hair cuts! > The open university pre dated home computers and used late night and mid day > TV broadcasting slots and was one of the primary purposes for BBC2 (when we > only had three TV channels!) > The following is from the OU site at ; http://www.open.ac.uk/about/ > > The Open University admitted its first students in 1971. It is the UK's > largest university, with over 200,000 students and customers. The OU > represents 22% of all part-time higher education students in the UK. > The university is ranked amongst the top UK universities for the quality of > its teaching. Of the 23 subjects assessed by the Quality Assurance Agency, > 17 have been placed in the top 'Excellent' category. > > Courses are available throughout Europe and, usually by means of partnership > agreements with other institutions, in many other parts of the world. About > 26,000 learners are studying OU courses outside the UK. > Andy > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Party of Citizens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 2:32 PM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [biofuel] MIT offers all courses free online > > > Some say this is only a matter of putting course outlines on the Internet > but I am inclined to agree with you that for the $100,000,000 projected > budget one would expect a lot more. > > POC > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, womplex_oo1 wrote: > > > http://web.mit.edu/ > > > > Congratulations to MIT, the first school in the world to offer > > engineering courses online - And BOY did they outdo themselves !!! > > Check out the OpenCourseWare, the educational parallel to Open Source > > software... > > > > - course outlines > > - lecture materials > > - lecture videos > > - exam materials > > - problem sets & solutions > > > > > > By yr.2007 they plan to have approx. 2000 courses available online to > > anyone and everyone!!! > > > > (excited! super excited!) > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Biofuels list archives: > > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 9/30/2002 > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
