Science Magazine established the Science Price for Online Resources in Education (SPORE)
To encourage innovation and excellence in education as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by students, teachers and the public.
The price has been awarded to MIT’s OpenCourseWare, one of my favorite places on the Internet.
At OCW you can find an astonishing amount of quality scientific and technical education materials available for free to anyone interested. Many many courses from MIT have their whole contents (including video lectures) freely published in OCW.
This really underlines a feeling that often presses me: if you don’t go to bed everyday having learned a boatload of interesting stuff it’s all you own damn fault, because the resources to do it are readily available, just waiting for you to take the plunge and read :-)
