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by Emmanuel Quartey
We recently interviewed Richard Collins (Yale Summer Session Online Manager), who told us all about how students will be able to take Yale courses online for credit this summer. This video gives you an inside view of what an online class actually looks like.
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by Emmanuel Quartey
Diana E.E. Kleiner, Founding Project Director and Principal Investigator, Open Yale Courses; Dunham Professor of History of Art and Classics, Yale University.
If you’re curious about the changing nature of higher-ed, you absolutely can’t afford to miss this fantastic interview with, Diana E.E. Kleiner as she discusses the lessons learned from spearheading the Open Yale Courses project. Near the end, she also hints at a fascinating new initiative from OYC.
This post is particularly topical because OYC announced the addition of SEVEN new courses today, which coincides with the publication of the first three books in The Open Yale Courses Series - the result of a collaboration between OYC and the Yale University Press!
by Emmanuel Quartey
A few weeks ago, I discovered that Yale will be offering accredited online classes this summer. I met up with Richard Collins, Yale Summer Session’s new Online Learning Manager, to discuss how the University is approaching it’s first accredited online learning initiative.
by Emmanuel Quartey
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I don’t know why this isn’t a bigger deal on the interwebs, but you can now take nine Yale Summer Session courses for full Yale credit in Summer 2012. The courses are:
SESSION A (June 4-July 6)
ENGL S220E Milton, John Rogers
MUSI S265E Jazz and Race in America, Tom Duffy
PSYC S110E Introduction to Psychology, Kristina Olson
PSYC S171E Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature, Laurie Santos
SESSION B (July 9-August 10)
ECON S285E The Welfare Economics of Public Policy, Don Brown
ENVE S105E Introduction to Green Energy, Yehia Khalil
MUSI S120E Listening to Classical Music, Craig Wright
PHIL S152E Moralities of Everyday Life, Paul Bloom
PLSC S394E/MMES S481E Introduction to Middle East Politics, Ellen Lust
Note that you’ll have to pay for these classes, so they’ll put you back a few thousand dollars, but it’s still a huge move for the University. You can take free online courses through Open Yale Courses, but to the best of my knowledge, this is Yale’s first serious entry into for-profit long-distance learning. I wonder who is driving this initiative, and whether there’re any plans to extend the program into the academic year.
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Felix Salmon provides us with an update on Sebastian Thrun’s free Stanford class “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”, which wrapped in last year:
Just a couple of datapoints from Thrun’s talk: there were more students in his course from Lithuania alone than there are students at…
One highlight:
Thrun was eloquent on the subject of how he realized that he had been running “weeder” classes, designed to be tough and make students fail and make himself, the professor, look good. Going forwards, he said, he wanted to learn from Khan Academy and build courses designed to make as many students as possible succeed — by revisiting classes and tests as many times as necessary until they really master the material.
And I loved as well his story of the physical class at Stanford, which dwindled from 200 students to 30 students because the online course was more intimate and better at teaching than the real-world course on which it was based.
(via Drew Breunig and Felix Salmon)
