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MIT OCW is a free Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. An introductory video about this resource can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ-FeoEvTI .

Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare.

Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia is an online, dynamic encyclopedia, which anyone can add or edit content. One of the exciting things about this site is that history is documented within minutes of an event occurring. Additionally at UCF, faculty members have made assignments asking students to rewrite poorly or sparsely written entries. Questions have arisen about Wikipedia's accuracy; Henry Jenkins from MIT discussed its uses and validity at the 2008 Annual Meeting for Educause Learning Initiative. To view his lengthy presentation, go to http://tinyurl.com/2cjxrf/ and select the What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies topic.

Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.