[WikiEN-l] links to open courses?

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Thu Oct 4 01:49:01 UTC 2012


All useful, interesting, or authoritative links on the subject of an
article should be included in "external links and further reading",
including important primary sources, open courses, and published books.

> Hi all,
>
> Here is something I've been thinking about lately. Do we have a policy
> or a practice on linking to open courses in articles, for instance the
> MIT courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu?
>
> As universities increasingly move to posting their courses and
> lectures online, it seems to me like these would be useful links to
> curate and add to the relevant (broad) articles.
>
> I am mostly familiar with English-language courses from US
> universities, but I'm also curious if any Wikipedia edition in any
> language has had discussions on this subject.
>
> cheers,
> phoebe
>
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