Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0691148740
ISBN 13
9780691148748
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press, United States
Pages
320
Subject
Private universities and colleges--United States--Data processing. Internet in education--United States. University extension--United States. Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.
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Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world's leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi, assignments, and lectures--to anyone with an Internet connection. Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of popular lectures, MIT supplies digital materials for nearly all of its courses, Carnegie Mellon boasts a purpose-built interactive learning environment, and some of the most selective universities in India have created a vast body of online content in order to reach more of the country's exploding student population. Although they don't offer online credit or degrees, efforts like these are beginning to open up elite institutions--and may foreshadow significant changes in the way all universities approach teaching and learning.
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