Friends: Here is an excerpt from the MIT Open Course Ware website. There are many Chinese universities making their course ware availble at no cost to anyone who has an internet connection. Needless to say most of the courses are in Chinese. What it is important is that there is great awareness in China that such material should be made available free to whoever wants to use it. Higher educational institutions in other developing countries will do well to follow the Chinese (and MIT) example. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam --------------------- Opencourseware Projects (around the world) The MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) project has always had a dual mission: * Provide free access to virtually all MIT course materials for educators and learners around the world. * Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the opencourseware concept. The vision of the MIT faculty who first developed the opencourseware concept at MIT was that one day, there would exist a vast network of universities around the world offering open access to high-quality educational materials in a variety of different disciplines, in a variety of different languages, creating a global Web of knowledge that will improve education around the world. So MIT is very pleased to be joined by other institutions around the globe in openly sharing educational materials as it helps us fulfill the second part of the OCW mission -- to extend the OCW concept to other leading universities. The collective body of high-quality educational materials made available by these institutions provides a remarkable free and open network of resources for educators, students, and self-learners everywhere. The institutions listed below have publicly committed to the open publication of their materials in OCW initiatives, and are devoting resources to support these OCW projects. China Visit the portal page for 156 Chinese university OCW projects, featuring the following universities * Peking University * Tsinghua University * Zhejiang University * Xi'an Jiaotong University * Central South University * Beijing Jiaotong University * Sichuan University * Beijing Normal University * Dalian University of Technology * Central Radio and Television University * Shanghai Jiaotong University * Nanjing University * Jilin University * Northwest Polytechnic University * Southeast University * Sun Yat-Sen University * Fudan University * Huazhong University of Science and Technology * Renmin University of China * Huazhong Agricultural University France The engineering institutions (Grandes Ecoles) which form ParisTech have published the ParisTech OpenCourseWare project. The ParisTech institutions include: * École Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF) * École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) * École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) * École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) * École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP) * École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) * École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) * École Polytechnique (EP) * École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) * Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) * École Nationale de Statistique et d'Administration Économique (ENSAE) (associate member) Japan Visit the portal page for the following Japanese university OCW projects: * Keio University * Kyoto University * Tokyo Institute of Technology * Osaka University * University of Tokyo * Waseda University United States * Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health * Tufts University * Utah State University Vietnam * Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW