http://www.openculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.openculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-13781 Joshua Davis Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:37:00 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-13781 prof.L. Hammond,obviously a scholar, would allow his internet students to appreciate his erudition if he focused more on an explication of the text(poems). I feel an inordinate period of time in his lectures in the Modern American Poetry course is spent on background material: biography, philosophy, psychology, meter, scansion. Short shrift was given to examining the text of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. prof.L. Hammond,obviously a scholar, would allow his internet students to appreciate his erudition if he focused more on an explication of the text(poems). I feel an inordinate period of time in his lectures in the Modern American Poetry course is spent on background material: biography, philosophy, psychology, meter, scansion. Short shrift was given to examining the text of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-7890 M. Sandula Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:40:42 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-7890 Sir, The Yale courses are truly excellent. The transcripts and readings are priceless for those of us who learn by reading not by listening. However, printing some of the transcripts is like printing the last line of an optometrists eye chart. In addition some of the transcripts cannot be printed at all or print with dropped words and lines at the right side. I can't seem to get around this glitch. I have contacted you before but nothing seems to change. Sir, The Yale courses are truly excellent. The transcripts and readings are priceless for those of us who learn by reading not by listening. However, printing some of the transcripts is like printing the last line of an optometrists eye chart. In addition some of the transcripts cannot be printed at all or print with dropped words and lines at the right side. I can't seem to get around this glitch. I have contacted you before but nothing seems to change.

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-2766 Sam Jackson Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/2007/12/yale_launches_open_courses-2.html#comment-2766 I'm a current Yale student, and I'm glad that they're rolling out this more comprehensive support for open online courses... however, I wish that they also complemented this with MIT style course availability which even Harvard has for large lectures, because it would be great to be able to have lectures to complement normal study and just for general learning as a great resource and for students looking to go beyond course evaluations to see if professors are any good. I’m a current Yale student, and I’m glad that they’re rolling out this more comprehensive support for open online courses… however, I wish that they also complemented this with MIT style course availability which even Harvard has for large lectures, because it would be great to be able to have lectures to complement normal study and just for general learning as a great resource and for students looking to go beyond course evaluations to see if professors are any good.

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