MIT's open course ware after one year.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced in 2001 that it would make available over the web for free the teaching materials of all the courses taught at MIT. In 2003 the number of courses from virtually exceeded 500. First the author describes the process leading to the Open Course Ware (OCW); studies on how MIT created and provided online education financially viable and sustainable way, and in terms of the program objectives, and studies on e-learning prospect, marketing research, business models, so on. Then he introduces OCW funding, the faculty involvement, copyright of the teaching materials on the Web, OCW users, OCW courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]