OpenCourseWare - a Free Lunch from MIT?

How many amongst us are old enough to remember the days when the only source of material to help in the production of lecture notes was from our own library’s finite resources? Nowadays, an appropriate phrase entered into a web browser reveals a plethora of academic material that can be used by students directly from the Internet, or can be edited to produce one’s own set of course handouts…OpenCourseWare is a developing on line resource from MIT which is being offered free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes. The author takes a critical look at the pilot modules currently available covering: calculus, complex variables., algebra, topics in theoretical computer science and internet research problems…