But simply using the web as a postman to deliver innumerable PDFs and video lectures is not enough.
This content includes eTextbooks, video lectures, interactive coaching and much more, and can be shared with multiple Samsung devices.
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The courses are full courses complete with short video lectures, quizzes and assignments.
It began when Harvard Law professor Arthur Miller, a paid consultant, taped a series of video lectures for Concord Law students.
In addition to iBooks, Apple revamped its free iTunes U app, which used to be limited to audio and video lectures for higher education.
Yet instead of being replaced by public libraries or correspondence schools in the past (as some experts had predicted) or by TED video lectures more recently, college has become more ingrained in our culture than ever.
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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.
And colleges stream live video of lectures, so students don't even have to leave their bed to take notes.
At its most basic, lecture capture does exactly that: captures audio or video recordings of classroom lectures.
The lectures are video recorded so students can watch them at their convenience.
The Explorer has a spa, an elegant lounge and dining room and a high-tech presentation area for daily briefings, TED-like lectures and daily video recaps.
But instead of traditional types of lectures, all-star professors give video presentations that directly engage and challenge students.
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.
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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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.
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