Teaching by video is based on a didactic, lecture based philosophy.

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Whether you are a brand, an entrepreneur or an individual who wants to change the world, new video games are teaching the very basics of how to spark a mass movement or what I like to call a Cultural Movement.

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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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Additional materials (publications, video, audio and other teaching materials, etc.) may be attached to the nomination form.

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But in her 2011 video, Monette said she had no qualms about starting her teaching career in New Orleans.

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