The Richest Collection Openly Shared Educational Materials In The World - MIT

Groundbreaking open education resource program shares most of MIT's curriculum. Already one of the richest collections of openly shared educational materials in the world, the MIT OpenCourseWare website has reached a significant milestone: With the publication of 10 new courses in the last two weeks, the site now shares core academic materials — including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams — from more than 2,000 MIT courses. First announced in 2001, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an ambitious effort to share MIT's education resources freely and openly on the web to improve formal and informal learning worldwide. All materials are available free of charge and without registration. The site's first courses were published in 2002, and by November 2007 the site contained materials from more than 1,800 MIT courses, representing a substantial amount of the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

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Crash course in learning theory

I recently stumbled across a very neat little blog commmunity aptly titled The Creating Passionate Users. This community of bloggers claim they are fascinated by brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools. The community is co-ordinated by Dan Russell, a full-time research scientist and software developer at Google who has a PhD from the University of Rochester in Artificial Intelligence and Kathy Sierra who has been interested in the brain and artificial intelligence since her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM). Crash course in learning theory looks at blogging as an educational tool rather than a sales or self promotional tool.

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