Logan, UT (March 1, 2005) -- The Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity (OSLO) Group at Utah State University announced today the expansion of the Open Learning Support pilot program with MIT OpenCourseWare.

Last spring MIT and Utah State University announced a joint project to pilot the integration of social software with select collections of course materials in MIT OpenCourseWare. Judging the initial pilot a success, USU and MIT have now expanded the pilot to eighteen courses, and will increase this number into the hundreds later this spring.

"We're very happy to be able to continue this relationship with MIT OpenCourseWare," said Dr. David Wiley, Executive Director of the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity Group at Utah State University. "We have already seen several instances of individuals connecting to provide each other with very high quality support, and expect to see incidences of this sort increase as we move out of our pilot phase and into large scale integration with MIT OCW."

The Open Learning Support software is funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.