MIT has been a pioneer in online education with its Open Courseware (OCW) program.
The courseware platform is open source, and other universities have already joined and added their own course content.
And, indeed, MIT has its own Open Courseware resources which offers basic programming instruction.
"The law's focus is on degree-granting programs as opposed to free, open courseware," she told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Shortly after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT) announced its bold Open Courseware initiative to the world, making its courses and programs freely accessible for scrutiny it also initiated the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) was also launched (MIT, 2002; Thorne et al., 2002).
A few of the world's best universities, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, generously share their programs with the world over the Internet through the "Open Courseware Alliance".
This courseware was designed and developed under a Visual Studio platform that provides an alternative to the existing "Ready to use" courseware.
Individual chapters from textbooks or entries from encyclopedias can be integrated with online courseware or added to a professor's web-based syllabus.
Courseware can be bought as a fully developed package from a software company, but the program provided this way may not suit the particular needs of the individual class or curriculum.
Software can be developed in-house, that is, a school, course, or teacher could provide the courseware exactly tailored to its own needs, but this is expensive, time-consuming, and may require more programming expertise than is available.
