Knowledge must be free-- according to MIT

Everybody needs a hobby, and TV sucks anyway…

Play along at http://ocw.mit.edu/

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MIT To Put Its Entire Curriculum Online Free Of Charge

The university said it hopes to stimulate global learning by letting students access its entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end.

By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek

In 2002, when MIT decided to experiment with placing course contents on the Web for open access, the university's officials knew they were breaking new ground and had no idea how the effort would be received.

On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end. Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums available online to date.

Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that 17% were educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were self learners.

Periodic Table of Visualization

From a newsletter that showed up in my e-mail...

So many ways to visualize information, so little time.

Fortunately, this site has gone to great trouble to organize and display the many ways we can represent data with illustrations, charts, graphs, flowcharts, and more. A quick mouse-over shows you all your visualization options.

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html