The Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to make the materials for nearly all its courses freely available over the Internet in the next 10 years.
Many universities see the Internet as a way to deliver revenue-generating distance education.
No credit will be offered for online course materials. Over the next decade, the project expects to provide materials for more than 2,000 courses across MIT's entire curriculum, including engineering, arts, humanities, science, and social sciences. We see it as source material that will support education worldwide, including innovations in the process of teaching and learning itself.