Friday, April 13, 2007

Translating MIT's OpenCourseWare into Chinese

The New York Times has interesting article in the spreading of free courses and knowledge....

By NOAM COHEN
Published: April 2, 2007

"Using much of the $1 million in royalties from his versions of “The Lord of the Rings,” Mr. Chu says he devotes himself to distributing free translations of material from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web site."

With volunteer help he has now translated 178 courses of the about 1600 that are available.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/technology/
02link.html?ex=1333166400&en=dcf9f2c3175ed3bf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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