p. “(extlink)Philip Greenspun’s Weblog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ discusses the shock that some “(extlink)MIT”:http://www.mit.edu students at a presentation about the implementation of the “(extlink)OpenCourseWare”:http://ocw.mit.edu project, where it was revealed that much of the programming for the project was performed in India.
p. A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word “Delhi”. It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India, either by Sapient, MIT’s main contractor for the project, or by a handful of Microsoft India employees who helped set up the Content Management Server.
p. Thus did students who are within months of graduating with their $160,000 computer science degrees learn how modern information systems are actually built, even by institutions that earn much of their revenue from educating American software developers.
p. Despite the author’s implication that MIT should have hired American people, and their students don’t appreciate their institution spending it’s money outside the US, I think most of the students who are looking at a $160,000 education appreciate their University taking any steps to reduce the costs of building their infrastructure. I’m sure that the biology students are pleased at the news.
MIT OpenCourseWare Made in India
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p. “(extlink)Philip Greenspun’s Weblog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ discusses the shock that some “(extlink)MIT”:http://www.mit.edu students at a presentation about the implementation of the “(extlink)OpenCourseWare”:http://ocw.mit.edu project, where it was revealed that much of the programming for the project was performed in India.
p. Despite the author’s implication that MIT should have hired American people, and their students don’t appreciate their institution spending it’s money outside the US, I think most of the students who are looking at a $160,000 education appreciate their University taking any steps to reduce the costs of building their infrastructure. I’m sure that the biology students are pleased at the news.