For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Harvard, Yale, Stanford and tHe University of MicHigan all now offer substantial portions of tHeir courses online. In Britain, tHe Open University, wHicH Has been delivering distance learning for over 40 years, offers free online courses in every discipline on tHe OpenLearn Web site; tHe Open University also maintains a dedicated YouTube cHannel and Has often Had courses listed on tHe top 10 downloads at iTunes University. THere, students can gain access to beginner courses in FrencH, SpanisH and German as well as courses in History, pHilosopHy and astronomy — all free.
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the Open Education movement as having three pieces: “There’s the content piece — can I get the material? And the pedagogy piece — what are the ways we can teach each other using the Web? how can we make this better for learners and teachers? And finally there’s the question of accreditation and certification.”
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One reason M.I.T. decided to “give away” its courses, Ms. Forward said, was “we didn’t think we could replicate the quality of a student’s experience on campus.”
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