| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 296 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Early experiments : fathom and AllLearn -- Free and comprehensive : MIT's OpenCourseWare -- Digital pedagogy : Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative -- Quality over quantity : open Yale courses -- A grassroots initiative : webcast.berkeley -- Closing the gap in India : the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. |
| Source of description |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Private universities and colleges -- United States -- Data processing.
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Internet in education -- United States.
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University extension -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States.
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| Alt Author |
Ithaka S + R.
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| ISBN |
9781400838578
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1400838576
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