This (well funded) initiative gets under way today with its first offerings http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html The first chemistry offering is a 32 lecture course on Quantum mechanics It is interesting to compare this with courses in Maths, where Java applets enhance the content. The QM course is exclusively available as Acrobat files, with no search capability. Perhaps with a heavily mathematical chemistry course as this, it is perhaps expected (but see what the Maths dept at MIT have done with their maths!) but it will be interesting to see if future courses strive to "enhance" the chemistry in any of the ways that people on this list are familiar with. MIT styles this initiative as primarily for the educator, rather than the student. In other words, it offers background materials that local instructors can use in developing their own courses, rather than being directed directly at students themselves. -- Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept. +44 0778 626 8220 +44 020 7594 5804 (Fax) chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)