Yale Ups the Ante

Eleni Litt, our new Director of Academic Support, forwarded this link to a recent piece on the Inside Higher Ed blog.  Yale, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is putting videos of full course lectures on its website in addition to other selected course materials.  All of the materials are open to the public in the spirit of the OpenCourseWare Project started by MIT several years ago, also with support from Hewlett.

"We want to add another dimension to open courseware,” said Catherine
Casserly, a program officer at Hewlett. She said that video components
used at MIT and elsewhere have been very popular with people all over
the world. “We’re trying to make that bridge” to the audience for high
quality American education, she said. Casserly said that Yale’s
initiative — starting with seven courses this year, with plans to grow
quickly — was the first open courseware effort based on lecture videos.
“We hope to see this spread to other universities,” she said.