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"While one minute lectures may be beyond the scope of imagination for any veteran teacher, Shieh reports on the piloting of the concept at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M. The concept was introduced as part of a new online degree program in occupational safety last fall. According to Shieh, school administrators were so pleased with the results that they are expanding the micro-lecture concept to courses in reading and veterinary studies."

Great model for running an open course in which students collaboratively write the text-book.

Interesting example of using student generation of content as a way to learn.

This is related to Andrew's post about the high-school.

David Wiley project to create open textbooks in a sustainable way. Received 8M VC funding to get started.