Yale Open Course (OYC)

Yale Open Course (OYC)

Yale Open Course (OYC) provides lectures and other materials of Yale's selected courses to the public free of charge through the Internet. These courses cover a comprehensive range of humanities disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, as well as physics and biology. No registration required The Yale Open Course website does not provide any course credits, degrees, or certificates. These online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, including self-directed learners and lifelong learners, educators, as well as high school and college students. The highly flexible integrated network interface actually allows users to audit Yale undergraduate courses as needed. It also provides users with various other options to build the learning process, such as downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials. Each course includes a complete set of classroom lectures in the form of high-quality videos, accompanied by teaching outlines, recommended reading materials, problem sets, and other course materials. The lecture is provided in the form of downloadable videos and also offers a pure audio version. In addition, searchable textual records of each lecture are provided. Who leads the open courses at Yale University? Diana EE Kleiner is the Dunham Professor of Art and Classical History, former Vice Dean, and founding project director and principal investigator of Yale Open Course. Professor Kleiner has brought rich experience in Internet education product development to the project, as well as her long-term experience as a professor, scholar and manager of Yale University. Who participates in Yale University's open courses? Yale University's top scholars and scientists who teach excellent undergraduate introductory courses are participating in Yale University's open courses. The project website provides brief resume information and links to its departmental affiliations. Who supports open courses at Yale University? Yale University's open courses have received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation located in Menlo Park, California. Through the Open Educational Resources (OER) program launched in 2001, the Hewlett Foundation seeks to use information technology to help equal access to knowledge and educational opportunities around the world. This initiative supports the development and dissemination of high-quality content, innovative methods to eliminate barriers to the creation, use, reuse, and sharing of high-quality content, and projects aimed at improving understanding of the demand for public content

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