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Ten new college courses — ranging from organic chemistry to ancient Roman architecture to the psychology and politics of food — have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free educational initiative, available to anyone with access to the Internet.

Each course, recorded in its entirety as it was presented to Yale College students, is taught by one of the University’s most distinguished faculty members. Open Yale Courses may be accessed at http://oyc.yale.edu.

The courses are available in high definition video and audio formats. All of these offerings are multi-media and provide the fullest experience of the Yale classroom to date, with rich visual elements on the screen, supplementary slide presentations, and extensive music clips, as appropriate. Closed captioning is provided for each course, as well as searchable transcripts, syllabi, reading assignments, problem sets and other materials. Yale has partnered with Google/YouTube and Apple iTunes U to make the courses even more accessible and to allow faster downloads. Open Yale Courses content can be accessed through partner platforms by visiting http://www.youtube.com/yalecourses and http://itunes.yale.edu.

Interested individuals may download the video and/or audio files of Open Yale Courses and watch and listen to them at their convenience. No registration is required for these courses, and participants do not earn academic credit from Yale nor do they interact with the professors.

Open Yale Courses is one of the most frequently visited Yale websites: more than one million unique visitors from 191 countries have accessed the site since its debut in December 2007. Faculty members around the world use content from Open Yale Courses in locations as far-flung as the classrooms of the University of Bahrain, the University of Ghana, Bogazici University in Turkey and the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. Tec de Monterrey in Mexico has added segments of Open Yale Courses to their “Knowledge Hub,” an index of open education resources that members of Tec’s faculty use in their classrooms. In China, the Ministry of Education has uploaded courses to the Chinese University Outstanding Courses Sharing System, available to students and faculty at all universities in China.
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