Grants Help MIT Put Course Materials Online

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received two grants, totaling $11-million, for its project to post course materials online and develop software for online courses that other institutions could use free.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have offered grants of $5.5-million each over 27 months to support the first phase of the institute's OpenCourseWare project.

M.I.T.'s plans for the project have sparked widespread interest

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