The university raises the ante on open source and says it will put courses online for free. Maybe we should start calling it the Massachusetts Institute of Open Source. Even an MIT student would admit that's a lot of work. We're waiting for some enterprising tech journalist to explore the connection further. Still, college is a business, and MIT has money concerns, too.
Stress is a selling point.
OpenCourseWare would be the biggest, broadest effort of its kind, but it's not unique. The plan may also sound familiar because, as the Times reminded us, Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy once vowed to create an online free university. The Times asked the president of MIT how OpenCourseWare would differ from Saylor's plan.