Quest 0.3 - A Comparison of MIT OCW and CMU OLI

"Carefully review five (5) random courses from MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/) and five (5) random courses from CMU OLI (http://www.cmu.edu/oli/). Write a post on the different ideals of quality expressed in the differing course designs; describe how you feel the different designs reflect on the different universities."

Click here to see a list of the courses I reviewed and a comparison of some of their respective features.

First, let's start with MIT OCW. Specifically, let's start with their website. I came to the website, and, looking around for a second, quickly found where the free stuff was. I clicked on the "Courses" tab and was presented with a daunting list of Department links. Let's see ... "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Click. Then, an even more daunting list of the courses themselves. With over 1800 courses on one page it seemed a bit cumbersome. OK, I'm just complaining. But there really is something psychologically intimidating about being confronted by 1800 hypertext links all at once.