A "free" Internet. (News for Educational Workers).The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, has taken a "free for all" approach to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . While many other colleges and universities have launched online degree courses that cost money, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken a completely different direction with a project called OpenCourseWare (OCW OCW Open Course Ware OCW Overseas Contract Worker OCW Out Caching With (geocaching) ). There will be no online degrees for sale, but thousands of pages of information available to anyone on the Internet. OCW hopes to start nothing short of a revolution in education. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/technology/2270648.stm) |
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