Vol. 2 - No. 1 - Winter 2005
| MIT Curriculum Translated into Chinese |
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Source: Liberty Times After ten months of work and the joint efforts of over 700 volunteers from around the world, an open source, open courseware prototype system (OOPS) project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been formally posted in Chinese at www.twocw.net. The site also includes a simplified Chinese version. Currently, nearly 100 courses are to be presented on the Internet. Non-commercial use of the courses is free to the public for both enjoyment and enrichment. The project marks a new page in the history of sharing knowledge. [More] |
| U.S. Maintains Innovation Edge Over European Nations |
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by Michael Aneiro Dec. 14, 2004-In the face of an increasingly global economy, the United States has actually widened its advantage over most European nations when it comes to innovation, according to a recent study out of Europe. The 2004 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), released in November by the European Commission, found that the U.S. and Japan remain "far ahead" of E.U. nations in the area of innovation. The report said that the level of E.U. innovation has remained relatively constant since 1996, while innovation performance in the U.S. and Japan has continued to improve, widening what it called the "innovation gap" between the U.S. and the E.U. The report traced this gap primarily to significant differences between the U.S. and E.U. in a handful of key areas, including patents, the education level of the working population, business expenditures on research and development, high-tech manufacturing, and early-stage venture capital. [More] |
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