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E-PrinceFor centuries, the university system has flourished as the primary means by which knowledge is transmitted from one generation to the next. The university’s advantage over alternatives has been its incomparable access to resources, not only in its libraries ...(back to the article)
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I really like the idea of the centralized hub of academic material, accessible to all Princetonians.
Excellent work forgetting about how major universities are more concerned with things like research and the capital required to fund it than with introductory undergraduate instruction.
Hello Peter.
All you had to do was flash the signal and the Syllabus Geeks would have been there in an instant bringing you the course dashboard of your dreams...your practical, every day dream that is; our syllabus solution might fall a hair short of your wildest dream.
To your point, there is a solution, a central location to access all of your course information including materials, contact info, files, links to supplemental course materials, and then some. This dream-of-a- syllabus-solution lets you sync your course schedule and date bound information to your personal online calendar (bye-bye LMS). This same tool will send you an email notification every time the instructor adds or changes the syllabus.
Having to get all your syllabi onto one calendar and search through multiple folders for course files that are disjoint from the syllabus is a thing of the past.
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not sure if I totally agree, but excellently written nonetheless!
The Udacity CEO is Class of 02.
Online classrooms are the future of education.They would be an effective tool in teaching they would also be very convenient for both the teachers and the students. You can read a blog on the trends of online education here http://bit.ly/AenP4K.