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Reading poetry at Yale ... in my sitting room
The Ivy League universities are offering online courses to students who log on from all over the world.
By Angela Balakrishnan
Reading poetry at Yale ... in my sitting room
The Ivy League universities are offering online courses to students who log on from all over the world.
By Angela Balakrishnan
Qijun Pan, 18, is settling down to a physics lecture. As he watches, Yale professor Ramamurti Shankar scribbles a series of formulae across the blackboard.However, Pan is not actually sitting in the lecture hall - he is in his bedroom in Shanghai, more than 10,000km away from New Haven, Connecticut, where the university is located.
You don't have to be in the US to take part - or even be registered with the university. "It makes sense in the era of globalisation and in a time of global information to make the knowledge we create more available and more broad-ranging," says Diana Kleiner, director of the Open Yale courses and a professor of history of art and classics at Yale University. "It seems to us that a university like ours has a responsibility to continue to democratise knowledge."
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The art of being virtual
By Harriet Swain
The first step for anyone wanting to make the most of learning opportunities offered by new technology is to go shopping. Better still, get someone else to go shopping for you.
Explain that you will need: a lightweight, web-enabled laptop in order to access essential learning tools, and be in constant touch with home, through emails and free telephone calls - for which they'll also need to throw in a headset. A printer will help you to get a good degree by avoiding library queues. You will also need a smartphone with a calendar application so that you can be on time for all lectures and seminars, meet assignment deadlines and remember great-aunt Dora's birthday. This will also allow you to text home to keep everyone informed of your movements, and to contact a taxi when stranded alone late at night and contemplating a lift home with a gang of youths and a pit bull terrier.
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The art of being virtual
By Harriet Swain
The first step for anyone wanting to make the most of learning opportunities offered by new technology is to go shopping. Better still, get someone else to go shopping for you.
Explain that you will need: a lightweight, web-enabled laptop in order to access essential learning tools, and be in constant touch with home, through emails and free telephone calls - for which they'll also need to throw in a headset. A printer will help you to get a good degree by avoiding library queues. You will also need a smartphone with a calendar application so that you can be on time for all lectures and seminars, meet assignment deadlines and remember great-aunt Dora's birthday. This will also allow you to text home to keep everyone informed of your movements, and to contact a taxi when stranded alone late at night and contemplating a lift home with a gang of youths and a pit bull terrier.
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Source: EducationGuardian.co.uk
