Unlocking the Gates : : How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses / / Taylor Walsh.

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 audi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 55
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Introduction: Context and Background
  • 2. Early Experiments: Fathom and AllLearn
  • 3. Free and Comprehensive: MIT's Open Course Ware
  • 4. Digital Pedagogy: Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative
  • 5. Quality over Quantity: Open Yale Courses
  • 6. A Grassroots Initiative: webcast.berkeley
  • 7. Closing the Gap in India: The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Epilogue: Implications for the Future
  • References
  • List of Interviews
  • Index