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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been identified as an important US institution in the exploration of e-Learning.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research.
MIT offer a lot of services related to distance or open learning, such us movile services for the students, where they can find, people directory, scheudles, other services like public lectures or course videos that took place in the university are free for everybody in the site. The user can find all of this tools and resources in MITOCW. This courses don't give to the student a certificate, it's just a service offered for all the people who wants to acquire more knowledge. This service is important for these days that we are living (knowledge society), also this service give better brand image for the society.
The MIT web site is at http://www.mit.edu/