Fred Singer, 44, is an art collector and former AOL executive who is now chief executive of two technology companies: Anystream, an on-demand-video company, and Echo360, which uploads university lectures to students.
And colleges stream live video of lectures, so students don't even have to leave their bed to take notes.
It began when Harvard Law professor Arthur Miller, a paid consultant, taped a series of video lectures for Concord Law students.
Students will attend lectures and complete assessments, which will be enriched by on-shore excursions and field work.
The lectures are video recorded so students can watch them at their convenience.
Rather than tape boring lectures, the professors asked students to solve problems and then the next course video would discuss solutions.
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Motivated by recent studies that show the high impact of research-based experiences on learning, Georgetown now employs Echo360 to expose more students in large lectures and general education courses to research.
"The Walking Classroom" podcast program -- where students listen to lectures while strolling outside -- and the online social game Sqord from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were also winners in the ASAP competition.
Students listened to lectures, ate communal meals of lamb, chicken and rice, and worshipped in a makeshift prayer area -- a portion of a large banquet room with sheets spread on the carpet to mark a sanctified zone.
Of his 200 Stanford students, 30 attended lectures and the other 170 took it online.
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Michael Wood, who has presented on the BBC since the late 1970s, will teach students and give public lectures.
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There are very few lectures at the school, and students are graded, in part, on their collaborative skills and on evaluations by fellow-students.
Students from each of the college, as well as people who were not students, would attend the lectures.
Around the country, students are listening to podcasted lectures and taking exams online.
They know there are votes to be won by championing the right of female students to wear headscarves in lectures.
Lectures are given to relatively large groups of students, professors pick a set of assessment and then they enforce the rules.
Rather than expecting teachers to tailor lectures to the styles of 30-plus students, we should engage technology to give every student an equal chance.
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To get their degrees, MBA students must listen to six online lectures on beef production and do homework assignments such as writing a pro-beef letter to the local paper.
At the elite Indian engineering colleges students must attend 42 hours of lectures and lab classes each week, twice as much time as the typical MIT undergraduate spends in class.
Some programs simply post videos of lectures or reading material online with little emphasis on whether students understand the material.
When Harvard discovered that students outside Cambridge, Massachusetts, could access these lectures, the administration asked Miller to give up the course.
Mobley utterly abandoned books and lectures in favor of games and simulations designed to wake his students up to their limitations and limitless potential.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 is an ideal learning tool that allows students to take notes directly on an eTextbook whilst in lectures, or research the Web at the same time as writing an essay.
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It is now routine for university students to text, e-mail and instant-message during lectures.
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But instead of traditional types of lectures, all-star professors give video presentations that directly engage and challenge students.
At Stanford University's school of medicine, professors electronically poll their students in class in real time, enabling them to tailor their lectures more precisely.
He has supervised over 70 research assistants and students, produced in collaboration with co-workers some 360 publications and delivered over 80 lectures to institutions or learned societies in 20 countries.
"Take your child to work" could become a routine practice rather than a single-day annual event, and college students could spend more time watching and helping scientists and scholars at work rather than just listening to their lectures.
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