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Wired 11.09: MIT Everyware

topic started 8/26/2003; 7:34:03 AM
last post 9/1/2003; 5:46:21 PM

Raymond Yee - Wired 11.09: MIT Everyware

8/26/2003; 7:34:03 AM (reads: 5530, responses: 1)

Wired 11.09: MIT Everyware #

Quote: "Top 10 OpenCourseWare Classes 1. Philosophy 24.00: Problems of Philosophy 2. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.170: Laboratory in Software Engineering 3. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.071: Introduction to Electronics 4. Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets 5. Mathematics 18.06: Linear Algebra 6. Mathematics 18.013A: Calculus with Applications 7. Nuclear Engineering 22.00J: Introduction to Modeling and Simulation 8. Physics 8.02: Electricity and Magnetism 9. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.281J: Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods 10. Management 15.810: Introduction to Marketing"

Comment: In the article about the MIT OCW project, one will find the above list of most popular courses, "ranked by hits per page and based on a two-month period ending June 30, 2003." Hmmm...why is Philosophy 24.00 so popular?

Posted by Raymond Yee on 8/26/03; 7:40:15 AM
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paul@m... - Re: Comment on post 904

9/1/2003; 5:46:21 PM (reads: 1849, responses: 0)

I attended MIT a long time ago (before the web), and I took 24.00 and remember it fondly. Of course, the content changes with each teacher. I spent a good deal of time looking through that course site on OCW.

Certain subjects will have more appeal than others to the general audience on the Internet. I enjoy reading about philosophy on the net, and I suspect a lot of other people do. It's more approachable and more relevant to my life today than some of those science courses (although I find pretty much any course interesting.)

Plus you can probably get more out of philosophy lecture notes than you can out of some of those courses. I mean, Hands-On Astronomy? Don't you need a telescope for that? And Laboratory in Software Engineering? Sounds like something that would be difficult to get relate over the web. However, I am interested to see what they will be able to do with OCW.

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