Open Yale: unlocking learning

I don't know if the marketing guys at one of the States' top university's picked up on the rather unfortunate play on words of their new initiative, 'Open Yale', but the oxymoron leads to a wonderful discovery, launched today. Yale University is making some of its most popular undergraduate courses freely available to anyone in the world with access to the net.

There's downloadable and streaming video, audio only and searchable transcripts of each lecture. Syllabi, reading assignments, problem sets and other materials accompany the courses are also provided. It's still pretty old-skool pedagogy, but a valiant attempt to bring us the likes of Professor Paul Bloom at no cost, to our living rooms and studies.

Comments

[Robert Jones]

Great - same vein as the Open Courseware stuff from MIT. I'll pass this on at school.

[Lisa M. Lane]

Not much available yet, but I checked out the course on the Hebrew Bible. Excellent, high-quality flash video and a good lecture, with materials. Thanks for posting this!