MIT Will Place Course Materials Online

By SARAH CARR

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said this month that it would go forward with an estimated $100-million plan to make instructional materials for all of its more than 2,000 courses available free on the Web.

"The result will be a window on M.I.T.," said Robert A. Brown, the university's provost. "But it is not an active window. It is not distance education."...