The school has fully integrated Google Docs and uses open course management system Moodle.
An equally big part of the mental drain is that, on a super-firm U.S. Open course, the golfers can't just hit their shots at a particular spot and hope the ball stays there.
But the idea of students cobbling together an entire degree from free Web courses, a prospect touted by some online-education evangelists, remains "kind of a silly nightmare, " said Edward Rock, director of open course initiatives at University of Pennsylvania.
Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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In May Harvard and MIT launched the third major MOOC (massively open online course) player, EdX.
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Her courses include Cultural Anthropology, Global Cultural Diversity and Gender through Comic Books, which she is teaching this spring as a massive open online course (MOOC) via Canvas.net.
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To take a notable example, people from the biggest of the massive open online course platforms, Coursera, often talk about how exciting it is that they can do A-B testing to learn what works.
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As noted in a previous Crotty on Education column, in the fall of 2011 Stanford University Professor, Sebastian Thrun, launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on artificial intelligence that attracted more than 160, 000 students.
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The major stock indexes were aiming for a shaky open before the jobs report, then reversed course to open modestly higher.
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In 2009 an estimated 20, 000 spectators watched 6, 000 swimmers brave the one-mile, open-water course.
Why the French Open, of course, the only Grand Slam tournament Djokovic has yet to win.
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Whether this approach will ever overtake the traditional MBA completely is, of course open to debate.
The only course open to them is to do their utmost to stick to the rule of law and live with the flak.
The thing that gets me, and I am of course open to correction, is that much of how we judge Google comes from how well their various technologies are doing.
It appears that the only course open now is for Congress to demand an unequivocal statement from the State Department and the White House that the U.S. will not transfer or release Abdel Rahman under any circumstances.
In July the club will open an 18-hole golf course, designed by former British Open champion Tom Weiskopf.
Watson won a total of eight major championships (and another five on the senior Tour), had that iconic chip-in on the 17th hole at Pebble Beach in the 1982 U.S. Open and also, of course, that heartbreaking near-miss at the 2009 British Open at Turnberry.
The course is open to year 12 and 13 pupils from 30 August to 1 September.
Open borders can of course cost trade, to some, as they bring it to others.
Buyers go to multiple open houses over the course of weeks or months in hopes of falling in love.
Of course, open source software has often been championed as the low-cost option.
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He finished eighth at the Masters, fourth at the U.S. Open and seventh recently at the Irish Open on a links course.
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In the circumstances, the only course left open to him would be to resign in exchange for getting the 1998 budget through parliament.
One of these is Shark's Tooth, designed by golfing legend Greg Norman, which is a private course only open to guests at the resort.
If Democrats can cross the psychic barrier of accepting that universal coverage is just not viable now, they'll see there's a much safer, surer and politically beneficial course wide open for them: Just call the Republicans' bluff about starting over.
Northern Constabulary said closed police stations will be sold on the open market "in due course".
The course itself is open only half the year, from mid-October to mid-May.
Karen Hawkes said the company enrolls 10 to 15 people per course and had open spots for this summer's courses.
Of course, every open source project and every commercial product must evolve.
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