Harvard Asks Alumni to Donate Time to Free Online Course - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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it asked alumni who had taken the course at the university to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers.
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About 10 of Dr. Nagy’s former teaching fellows in the class will direct discussions, with help from a larger, still-undetermined number of former students. Both groups will work unpaid; the e-mail to alumni said the work would require three to five hours a week.
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About a dozen recent former students were recruited before Monday’s e-mail was sent, Ms. Filos said. Those who express interest will be screened, “and they have to be brought up to speed on the material,”
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