The Pioneer Award for Educational Resources 2004-09-02   On September2, the first day of the Second MIT CORE OCW Conference, an evening banquet was held on the second floor of the TianPing Hotel in Shanghai. All of the meeting participants both foreign and domestic attended the banquet. At 8:00pm, Dr. Fun-Den Wang, Chairman of IET Educational Foundation opened the Pioneer Award ceremony to recognize those people who have contributed greatly to the open sharing of educational resources. The winners are Dr. Charles M. Vest, Former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dr. Dick Yue, Associate Dean of the School of Engineering of MIT; Dr. Anne Margulies, Director of MITOCW; Dr. Marshall Smith and Dr. Cathy Casserly, from the Hewlett Foundation; Mr. Yaoxue Zhang, Head of the Division of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education; Mr. Bing Yan, Vice President of the University of Central Radio and TV Broadcasting. The Pioneer Award is a sister award to the University Presidential Award given by IET Educational Foundation in April 2004, which was awarded to three presidents from Beijing University, Beihang University, and Dalian University of Technology. The purpose of these two awards is to encourage more people to contribute their work to Chinese education and to recognize people who have done an excellent job in the field of open sharing of educational resources.   close