The lectures are always open to the public and later published in book form.
Such feasts can be soporific, but unfortunately, so are the lectures, with undergraduate-level speakers sometimes reading from PowerPoint presentations.
The major costs for Renewing American Civilization, as a course, were for the dissemination of the lectures.
Students from each of the college, as well as people who were not students, would attend the lectures.
But again, the whole point of the lectures is to enable much more hands-on teaching during the day.
The lectures are video recorded so students can watch them at their convenience.
The lectures are interesting, but the big draw is the chance to talk to other powerful people in the corridors.
Van Fraasen delivered the lectures in 1999, and they were published in book form in 2002, as The Empirical Stance.
However, even if the cost of producing the lectures were higher, they can be used over and over without additional cost.
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We spend a lot of time together in the dining room, which has four big sofas and plugs for laptops, choosing conversation over the lectures.
Davies was awarded many academic honours, and the lectures he gave on those occasions were small works of art, worked at and worried over for weeks.
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.
Only Mr. Gingrich's portion of the lectures -- his 20 hours -- were disseminated via cable, television, satellite broadcasts, video tapes, audio tapes through the Renewing American Civilization Project.
"In most, if not all, of my classes, you go to the lectures and do readings, " said Daniel Sabido, who came up with one of the three best solutions.
Spirits run high out here in Silicon Valley that technology will somehow disrupt higher education, mainly by offering the best lectures and lessons in the world to millions of people for mere dollars or less.
It is due to this age-long ritual that we have decided to organize a conference such as this since the doctrine of the Church lectures has evolved over the years we are proud to say we are keeping the hope alive!
Historian-lawyers Staughton and Alice Lynd, a husband-and-wife team who have spent the past 20 years investigating circumstances surrounding the riot, are marking the anniversary with lectures around the state focusing on the five inmates sentenced to death for their roles in the riot.
Happily, the movie lectures on nothing at all, choosing instead to reveal, with dry wit and equanimity, the pain and promise of this new global culture.
Second, and related to this, the online format requires us to rethink the pace of lectures and also the rationale for assessment.
But the Palm Springs event really finds its groove in the spaces between the main lectures.
When asked to give the Clark Lectures at Cambridge University in 2007, Sir Frank chose Forster as his subject.
The doom-laden lectures from the Americans and others in Washington last week did achieve something: Europe's policymakers now recognise that more must be done.
I'm also the editor of Drucker: A Life in Pictures (McGraw-Hill, 2013) and The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society, and Economy (McGraw-Hill 2010).
In three snappy essays, first delivered as the Lionel Robbins memorial lectures at the London School of Economics, Mr Blinder offers some of the best analysis of central banking today.
He personalizes the talk by directly addressing all the other speakers at the Do Lectures by name, and suggesting to them how they could bring publishing and digital together in their lives.
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The series of Speaker's lectures on the great offices of state takes a look at the key roles in government aside from the prime minister - the chancellor of the exchequer, the foreign secretary and the home secretary.
In Googling him, someone at the university found that he had done lectures on the merits of intelligent design.
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The project combines lectures, debates, round tables in addition to film screenings and photo exhibitions on the theme of discrimination.
The Harvard professor, who recently delivered the BBC's Reith lectures on banking and the financial crisis said the Bank of England should be all powerful but the rules should not be completely clear.
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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.
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