MIT OCW's Jon Paul Potts visits CORE's Lead Universities(I)----Beijing University of Technology 2005-03-28   Invited by CORE, Mr. Jon Paul Potts, Director of Communications of MIT OCW, came to promote CORE & MIT OCW at CORE?ˉs Lead Universities. On the afternoon of March 28, Mr. Jon Paul Potts and two CORE program directors gave their first presentation at Beijing University of Technology (BUT). Before his speech, Mr. Cai Suduo, Dean of the Teaching Affairs Office of BUT, gave a brief welcome speech and introduction to Mr. Jon Paul Potts. In his presentation, Mr. Potts mainly introduced MIT OCW?ˉs vision, implementation, outcomes, CORE, and its meaning to MIT OCW. All the leaders and professors from BUT who attended were greatly impressed by Mr. Potts?ˉ presentation. They also asked a lot of good questions. Mr. Potts answered them one by one. Later, Professor Liu Dianqiu, CORE?ˉs Senior Advisor, introduced more of CORE?ˉs achievements since its start. After the presentation, Mr. Cai showed Mr. Potts and the CORE representatives around the BUT campus, especially its modern laboratories and advanced facilities. The presentations by Jon Paul Potts and CORE representatives helped the BUT staff to know more about MIT OCW and CORE and also inspired them to participate in the open sharing movement. It was a successful lecture. Mr. Jon Paul Potts arrived in Beijing on March 27. This is his first visit to China this year. Last March he and Ms. Cecilia d'Oliveira, Technology Director, presented MIT OCW and met CORE universities. On this trip, he and CORE staff will go to visit four of CORE?ˉs Lead Universities, giving presentations and answering practical questions about the process of using MIT OCW or the further information of MIT OCW and CORE. The four Lead Universities are respectively Xi?ˉ an Jiaotong University￡¨The host for 2005 CORE & MIT OCW Conference in October of 2005￡?, Zhejiang University, Beijing University of Technology, and Hongkong University of Science and Technology. Mr. Jon Paul Potts is the Communications Manager of MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW). He is the spokesman for the MIT OCW project, is editor of ?°The MIT OpenCourseWare Update?±, an e-mail newsletter that is sent to 20,000 people each month, and is MIT OCW?ˉs first point of contact for people around the world. Prior to joining MIT OCW, he served as Director of Marketing and Communications for MIT?ˉs $30 million annual Alumni Fund. Mr. Potts came to MIT in 1999 as senior editor for MIT Technology Review magazine. Before joining the MIT Community, he was editor of several newspapers in greater Boston. He is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame.   close