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  1. Wired News about Elite Colleges / 31 December, 2007

    Wired News has published a big story by Justin Pope about the OpenCourse movement and free university lectures on the web: Internet Opens Elite Colleges to All You can find another interesting article on the website of the New York Times. It’s by Sara Rimer and features Professor Walter H. G. Lewin: At 71, Physics [...]

    No comments yet | Categories: internet | Author: Ellen

  2. University of Bath Wins Podcast Award / 14 December, 2007

    The University of Bath has won a prestigious international award for its podcasts of its public lectures, which have proved popular world-wide. The University was given the European Excellence Award for the best podcasts at a ceremony in Berlin last night. There were 600 entrants in total for all the award categories, and the University [...]

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  3. Free Yale Courses Debut Online / 13 December, 2007

    Yale University is making some of its most popular undergraduate courses freely available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet. The project, called “Open Yale Courses,” presents unique access to the full content of a selection of college-level courses and makes them available in various formats. Each course includes a full set [...]

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  4. Organic Chemistry: Lab Training Videos / 6 December, 2007

    Undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) created a series of dynamic videos about their work in the science laboratory. Haim Weizman is a lecturer in U.C. San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He powers the video project. As reported by Sherry Seethaler each video is approximately five to seven minutes [...]

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