Katie Hafner reports on the growing trend of academic institutions putting courseware online. A few key college professors--like our client Walter Lewin--have began posting video lectures, syllabuses, and reading materials for free, helping to "dislodge higher education from its brick-and-mortar moorings."
Hafner writes:
The undisputed rock star academic is Walter H. G. Lewin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who flies across the room to demonstrate that a pendulum swings no faster or slower when there is an added mass (Professor Lewin) hanging at the end.
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If the mission of the university is the creation of knowledge (via research) and the dissemination of knowledge (via teaching and publishing), then it stands to reason that giving that knowledge away fits neatly with that mission. And the branding benefits are clear.
You can read the entire article here.
Free Press will publish Walter Lewin's FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS Winter 2011
