The major costs for Renewing American Civilization, as a course, were for the dissemination of the lectures.

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Most of all, put yourself in the shoes of your future boss and imagine whom you would rather hire: the candidate who built a profitable business over the course of two years, or the candidate who sat in lectures and reviewed case studies to get a degree?

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At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, staff are using interactive lectures, field learning and peer-to-peer to sessions as a way of enhancing their course offerings.

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He took a course designed by a geneticist who helped launch the Human Genome Project, Harvard colleague George Church. (Mr. Gates passed the course, he proudly notes, with a required score of 100.) He also boned up via laptop with video lectures from the Teaching Company, and often consults Ivy League peers by email.

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