{"id":26599,"date":"2012-01-27T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=26599"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:35:01","slug":"free-courses-elite-colleges-kolowich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/01\/27\/free-courses-elite-colleges-kolowich\/","title":{"rendered":"Free courses, elite colleges [Kolowich]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2012\/01\/27\/company-unveils-line-free-online-courses-elite-college-faculty\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free courses, elite colleges<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Robert Garland, a professor of classics at Colgate University, is not accustomed to discussing Greek religion with the lifeless lens of his MacBook\u2019s built-in video camera. But that was how Garland spent Wednesday afternoon: in his home study, recording lectures on his laptop in 20-minute chunks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Garland, a novice to online teaching, says it is difficult to think of these solitary sessions as lectures. \u201cI think of them more as chats,\u201d he says.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nGarland\u2019s gear is lo-fi: just the laptop, which he owns, and a microphone mailed to him by Udemy, the company that roped him into this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free courses, elite colleges &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich Excerpt: Robert Garland, a professor of classics at Colgate University, is not accustomed to discussing Greek religion with the lifeless lens of his MacBook\u2019s built-in video camera. But that was how Garland spent Wednesday afternoon: in his home study, recording lectures on his laptop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,86,209,159,72,143,36,35,23,239,62,76,431],"tags":[627,413,600,614,653,606,641,586,585,580,251,601,381,774,779,722,572],"class_list":["post-26599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-multimedia","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-organizational-change","tag-21st-century","tag-24x7x365","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-change","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-disruption","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-multimedia","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning","tag-open","tag-organizational-change","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26604,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26599\/revisions\/26604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}