Unlocking the gates
Subtitle: how and why leading universities are opening up access to their courses
By: Taylor Walsh, in conjunction with Ithaka S+R
Contributors: Ithaka S + R.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781400838578; 9780691148748
Subjects: Distance & Online Education; Higher Education; Effect of technological innovations on; Private universities and colleges; University extension; Internet in education; Data processing; EDUCATION; Higher
Description: 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 orde.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early experiments : fathom and AllLearn; title: Free and comprehensive : MIT's OpenCourseWare; title: Digital pedagogy : Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative; title: Quality over quantity : open Yale courses; title: A grassroots initiative : webcast.berkeley; title: Closing the gap in India : the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning.