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I'm surprised you aren't aware of OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/ http://ocw.mit.edu/). It's been around for several years now, and its existence could caus
by swolchok 17y ago
I'm surprised you aren't aware of OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/ http://ocw.mit.edu/). It's been around for several years now, and its existence could cause one to read your post as sardonic or tongue in cheek.
- coryl 17y agoThats actually what I was thinking, but on a global scale. So not just MIT's site, aggregating content from all universities. A lot of the content on MIT's site is from 5 years ago. When you tend to have the content managed by one party, it'll get bogged down and not work as well as it should over time.
- hga 17y agoMIT's emphasis on teaching foundations means that 5 year old content is generally going to be just fine (and if it uses a prior edition of a textbook, a whole lot cheaper as well). One thing you're not considering is just how expensive doing this is: The content has to be captured. If you want video of the lectures, that and most of the subsequent steps get a lot more expensive. And for a lot of courses lecture notes just don't cut it. Publication rights have to be ironed out. You're got to iron this out with the professors involved, which at the very least will cost you some lawyer time plus political negotiations etc. etc. What's Fair Use (real or practical) for a classroom may not work for the web, and this kills some courses where the reading consists of a bunch of research papers. Etc. The content has to be prepared for the web site. E.g. convert various word processor documents into PDFs. Running the web site costs money.