Not as detailed as it could be, but this article is nonetheless a useful discussion of MIT's open courseware and the related Open Knowledge Initiative. The article takes direct aim at the question of why people can't take the MIT content and the MIT online learning environment and say that they're offering an MIT course. Of course they're not, but why not? "An MIT education requires a combination of the content in conjunction with a faculty member and the critical element, the students, mixed together in an environment that supports inquiry and provides first-rate facilities to support the pursuit of knowledge."CRLF
CRLFWhen I write about MIT I always think of Jame Blish's famous Cities in Flight series... the villians of the piece were IMT - "Interstellar Master Traders" - who enforced their will by landing their city on the enemy (the worst thing a city in flight can do). It makes me wonder whether Blish had it in for MIT. Heh.
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