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MIT’s OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) is looking for African education

<!– D(["mb",") is looking for African education<br />institutions to offer mirror sites for its free, web-based teaching<br />materials. With the materials from 1400 MIT courses representing all 33<br />of MIT\'s academic disciplines, millions of educators and learners have<br />used the materials to improve their teaching and studies.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the MIT OCW materials are largely underutilized in many<br />African regions where Internet connectivity is limited. To overcome this<br />limitation, we have installed a small number of mirror sites, or local<br />copies of MIT OCW content, at African educational institutions and our<br />evaluation data show that these mirror sites are having a significant<br />positive impact.<br /><br />MIT OCW has received support to expand the number of mirror sites in the<br />region through the MIT OCW in a Box program. MIT OCW in a Box, which we<br />will distribute for free to African institutions, is an external hard<br />drive which contains: an entire copy of the entire MIT OCW Web site<br />(including videos), software tools, user documentation, and marketing<br />collateral. Its goal is to have 100 mirror sites installed at African<br />educational institutions by the end of 2006.<br /><br />If you know of a university that could benefit from this program, please<br />contact <a onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\" href\u003d\"mailto:farnaz@mit.edu\">farnaz@mit.edu</a>.<br /><br /><br />* MOZAMBIQUE’S ISUTC LAUNCHES OPEN SOURCE LEARNING AND APPRAISAL SYSTEM<br /><br />LIMEAA (Laboratório Informático de Ensino, Auto-Aprendizagem e<br />Avaliação) is a web-based learning and appraisal system, conceived in<br />2002 as a way to support ISUTC\'s rapid expansion without compromising on<br />its distinctive academic approach. The first version of the system went<br />live within ISUTC in April 2006, and has just been launched publicly.<br /><br />ISUTC places a heavy emphasis on continuous assessment throughout each<br />semester, to encourage students to maintain extra-classroom reading.<br />",1] ); //–>institutions to offer mirror sites for its free, web-based teaching
materials. With the materials from 1400 MIT courses representing all 33
of MIT’s academic disciplines, millions of educators and learners have
used the materials to improve their teaching and studies.

Unfortunately, the MIT OCW materials are largely underutilized in many
African regions where Internet connectivity is limited. To overcome this
limitation, we have installed a small number of mirror sites, or local
copies of MIT OCW content, at African educational institutions and our
evaluation data show that these mirror sites are having a significant
positive impact.

MIT OCW has received support to expand the number of mirror sites in the
region through the MIT OCW in a Box program. MIT OCW in a Box, which we
will distribute for free to African institutions, is an external hard
drive which contains: an entire copy of the entire MIT OCW Web site
(including videos), software tools, user documentation, and marketing
collateral. Its goal is to have 100 mirror sites installed at African
educational institutions by the end of 2006.

If you know of a university that could benefit from this program, please
contact farnaz@mit.edu.

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