There are new developments under way. For example, MIT is organizing its Open CourseWare (MIT OpenCW), (see also (MITCET)) which will be (has been) put onto the Internet in September 2002. There are allied forces at different American and European universities. For our own purposes it is only us, who can/will/should collect the experiences about these materials,
- whether those are useful for us,
- whether some of those will need supervisory help,
- how to include those into the curriculum of our university,
- how to extend those with courses of Hungarian universities, within or outside of Hungary,
- to find courses at Hungarian universities, which complement present curricula of Hungarian universities,
- to find courses at non-Hungarian universities, which complement present curricula of Hungarian universities.
Other reasons why timing is good:
- Internet technology allows anonymous publications,
- security, authentication and accountibility can be ensured,
- map viewers have become available.
The last group of reasons for making this effort:
- Computer curriculum is evolving faster than committees can evaluate them. The development of a new curriculum takes two years and it is obsolete at the time of publishing, according to ACM and IEEE.
- Training of teachers of computer science and information systems is such that the knowledge of the university graduates may be partially obsolete at the time of graduation. Continuation of learning seems a must here.
- Single curriculum may not work. Needs are different for different students, different communities, different countries.
- To satisfy the needs of a community, the active participation of community members is needed. Capabilities of the community and needs of the society are to be matched. The Internet provides a forum/means/tool to allow the best experts to contribute and to make ends meet.
