Tag Archives: MIT

YouTube EDU

Posted on 27 March 2009 by Rick Mason

YouTube EDU is a collection of videos from dozens, if not hundreds, of educational sources, including Stanford, MIT, Purdue University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Harvard Business School. This looks to be the start of a very useful collection of lectures … Continue reading →

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MIT OpenCourseWare goes to High School

Posted on 30 November 2007 by Rick Mason

MIT has expanded their OpenCourseWare initiative to include science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for high school students.  Dubbed Highlights for High School (a name that, for me at least, evokes Highlights magazine), their stated purpose is to “inspire the … Continue reading →

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Open Courseware at MIT

Posted on 11 June 2007 by Rick Mason

There is a great overview of the history and current status of the Open CourseWare (OCW) project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of interest is the discussion on why to spend millions of dollars to provide free access to … Continue reading →

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YouOS

Posted on 24 August 2006 by Rick Mason

From the folks at Google and a team from MIT comes YouOS, an experimental “web operating system” which basically gives you a computer desktop that you access through your web browser. Why is this significant? This is more than your … Continue reading →

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