Transcript A New Model for Open Sharing

January 13, 2006
MIT OpenCourseWare and India
Jon Paul Potts
MIT OCW and India
MIT OpenCourseWare Traffic from India
300,000
250,000
Web Hits
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
10/1/03
1/1/04
4/1/04
7/1/04
10/1/04
1/1/05
Date
4/1/05
7/1/05
10/1/05
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Traffic by Geographic Region (in Web hits, since 10/1/03)
31.7 M
301.3 M
146.2 M
105.9 M
23.1 M
36.2 M
Region
North America
Western Europe
East Asia
South Asia
Latin America
Eastern Europe
and Central Asia
MENA
Pacific
Sub-Sah. Africa
TOTAL HITS
Hits Since
Hit %
10/1/03
301,272,891 42.9
146,211,225 20.8
105,997,248 15.1
43,190,736
6.1
36,161,953
5.2
31,661,229
43.2 M
5.5 M
9.3 M
4.5
23,057,367
3.3
9,344,133
1.3
5,478,698
0.8
702,375,480
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Countries with most hits in December 2005 (outside of U.S.)
Country
Web Hits
Country
Web Hits
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China
2,852,606
11
Japan
512,595
2
India
1,699,707
12
France
456,022
3
Israel
1,188,279
13
Italy
447,683
4
Canada
1,133,895
14
Iran
393,146
5
Vietnam
998,909
15
Spain
348,489
6
South Korea
819,522
16
Brazil
316,573
7
United Kingdom
741,963
17
Singapore
243,687
8
Germany
625,228
18
Pakistan
239,073
9
Turkey
606,976
19
Australia
237,530
10
Taiwan
524,660
20
Netherlands
226,491
Source: Akamai
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MIT OCW Feedback from India:
›
“Great, great idea for the common people to become great. Well done.
I like to thank from whole Indore Student Association for such a nice
idea of starting OCW.” — Tarun Nainani, student in India, on
January 8, 2006
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“Hi all, MIT OCW is a beautiful paradigm of the way of sharing of
quality information access without boundaries. I am truly impressed as
this creates an opportunity to learn, build, and clarify the concepts of
anything that one is interested. I am extremely happy and grateful to
MIT for this kind of initiative.” — Sekhar Raja, student in India, on
December 27, 2005
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“The OCW is providing a lot of help to students like us with a lot of
teacher oriented concepts. I am really thankful to all the team working
for the project. I got introduced by my teacher 2 years back and since
then i am following your courses. I am really thankful to u all.” —
Pradeep Penumarthy, self-learner from India, on December 20,
2005
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Case Study from India
Hemalatha Thiagarajan
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu, India
Professor of mathematics and computer science at the National
Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil Nadu, India
USE
• Lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations from MIT’s
“Course 6.825 – Techniques in Artificial Intelligence” in
her teaching
• Recommends OCW to her students as a resource for
taking a deeper look at a particular subject
– “I’ve told my students that some of the OCW courses
would be very useful for them. Things like, for example,
database management, or microprocessors. I can’t cover
these topics fully enough, but they’re important to the
students. And when the students do follow up, they find it
very useful.”
IMPACT
• “I used to spend a lot of class time drawing pictures on the
board. In data structures, for example, I need to show a lot
of pictures of data trees and structures, and I had to draw
all of them. Here, with the click of a button, I can show
them something which has been very neatly and very
beautifully done.”
Recovering precious classroom time
Hemalatha Thiagarajan first discovered OpenCourseWare several years ago during
an Internet search for materials on artificial intelligence. A professor of mathematics
and computer science at the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil
Nadu, India, Thiagarajan was dissatisfied with the traditional textbook on artificial
intelligence, and was hoping to find materials to supplement her lectures.
The OCW materials she found for “Course 6.825 – Techniques in Artificial
Intelligence” were just what she was looking for, and she quickly adapted several
PowerPoint presentations and lectures to fit her syllabus. To her surprise, however
the materials didn’t just improve the content of her lectures; they also allowed her
to cover more material in the same number of classes. “I used to spend a lot of class
time drawing pictures on the board,” Thiagarajan said. “In data structures, for
example, I need to show a lot of pictures of data trees and structures, and I had to
draw all of them. Here, with the click of a button, I can show them something which
has been very neatly and very beautifully done.”
Initially, her students were not entirely happy with her new approach. “For the first
month,” she recalls, with evident amusement, “many of them felt that the course
was moving too fast. Obviously, when I have to write everything on the board, I go
more slowly, so they get a lot of time to follow the whole thing.”
In the end, though, Thiagarajan received rave reviews from her students — both on
the amount and the quality of the material she was able to cover.
Thiagarajan also has found that OCW is a valuable resource for students who would
benefit from a deeper look at a particular topic. In her own teaching, Thiagarajan is
constrained by a rigid university syllabus. So when a topic emerges in class that she
cannot spend enough time on, she is quick to steer her students to OCW. “I’ve told
my students that some of the OCW courses would be very useful for them, when I
can’t cover these topics fully enough, but they’re important to the students. And the
students find it very useful.”
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Thank You!
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