Those of you who are into continued learning (life-long students) may be interested in checking out this link http://www.ocwconsortium.org/about/index.shtml. The OpenCourseWare (OCW) opportunity is available to everyone and is a phenomenal effort on behalf on the member Universities to advance education and empower people. Here’s more information about OCW from their link:

About Us

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Are you interested in finding out what MIT is teaching and wish you could take a course there? Well, you ‘virtually’ can, it’s here and it’s FREE - here is the link for MIT’s Open Course Ware - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm As of November 2006 MIT had 1,550 courses in the system. Here are MIT’s goals/information for OCW:

MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , MIT, and generous support of the Ab Initio software company. MIT OCW’s goals are to:

• Provide free, searchable access to MIT’s course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
• Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the “opencourseware” concept.

MIT OCW would not be possible without the support and generosity of the MIT faculty who choose to share their research, pedagogy, and knowledge to benefit others. We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2008. Between now and then, we will publish the materials from virtually all of MIT’s undergraduate and graduate courses. We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of MIT OCW. With 1,550 courses published as of November 1, 2006, we are still in a learning stage of this MIT initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback, as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible for our users.

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