Some experts with material conflicts, such as having received fees for lectures from drug companies or owning stock in them, are allowed to sit on the panel.
Successful MOOC participants are self-motivated and hold themselves accountable for watching lectures, completing coursework, and fulfilling all requirements.
Paul Robertson, who leads the Medici Quartet, reports growing demand from doctors and businessmen for his lectures on music and the mind.
He said the space was now being used for open lectures, and a number of high profile speakers and notable academics had given talks.
For some careers there is no substitute for classroom lectures.
It began when Harvard Law professor Arthur Miller, a paid consultant, taped a series of video lectures for Concord Law students.
He has been conducting his actions across many media: production television series, giving lectures for public at large, publishing books and production documentary film.
In addition to iBooks, Apple revamped its free iTunes U app, which used to be limited to audio and video lectures for higher education.
This discussion was created by the Reading Odyssey, a non-profit that aims to reignite curiosity and lifelong learning for adults through lectures, reading groups and webcasts.
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Classroom teachers can substitute these excellent lectures for their own, or, more likely, given the vanity factor, they can assign them as homework to supplement class lectures.
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Finally, whenever I talk about specific pharmacologic treatments I need to disclose that in addition to my academic work I have given lectures for two pharmaceutical companies in the last year: Lilly and Wyeth.
Key to this has been an NSF initiative called I-Corp done in concert with the NCIIA. Blank and Jerry Engel of the Berkley Haas School has put together a terrific curriculum and set of online lectures for validating the business and marketing aspect of a tech startup.
It is hoped it could be a valuable teaching resource for secondary schools, lectures, and exhibitions.
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The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 to link science with wider society and is well known for its televised Christmas lectures.
For starters, long lectures don't hold people's attention in cyberspace.
The Louisville native first attracted public attention in 1908 for his book The American College, which condemned higher education for its reliance on lectures versus small classes and hands-on teaching.
It provides tours of the facility for interested members of the public and conduct lectures, outreach programs and demonstrations for the local community to show them how to grow food in various urban environments.
In 2011, it launched an annual festival called Puerto de Ideas, or Port of Ideas, a creative conference that brings Latin American and global scholars, artists and scientists to Valparaiso for a series of lectures and exhibitions.
It caters for amateur astronomers and holds lectures, short talks, debates and observing sessions.
The major costs for Renewing American Civilization, as a course, were for the dissemination of the lectures.
Cowen and Tabarrok know that they can put their lectures out there for free and that provides the opportunity for impact ( TED has a related idea).
This expense of dissemination of the message and of the lectures was paid for by tax-deductible contributions that were made to various 501(C)3 organizations that sponsored the course.
Martin Shenkman (a New Jersey CPA and lawyer) is doing his second tour in his RV to give free lectures on planning for people with a chronic illness.
The scheme will see the creation of a new dedicated gallery spaces for exhibitions, the restoration of the Assize Court, its cells and court room for re-enactments, lectures and presentations.
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He has traveled extensively throughout the world giving lectures and seminars for private and government organizations, including Beijing Academy of Social Science, Nagoya University, Tokyo Science University, Keimung University, University of Adelaide, Saint Gallen University, Duisburg University, University of Edinburgh, and Athens University of Economics and Business.
Several Koreans from the Citizens Alliance for 2000 General Elections came to Japan to exchange views, holding lectures about their experience throughout the country for a week in May.
Why should a student pay a giant tuition bill in order to be lectured by a mediocre grad student when videos of brilliant lectures can be had for a mouse click?
And holding long moral lectures is boring, both for the parent and the child.
Its clear, though, that he thinks this is something for Russians to sort out, without lectures from the outside world.
Second, and related to this, the online format requires us to rethink the pace of lectures and also the rationale for assessment.
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