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Harvard@Home. ‘The mission of Harvard@Home is to provide the Harvard community and the broader public with opportunities for rich in-depth exploration of a wealth of topics through Web-based video programs of the highest calibre.
Harvard@Home enables you to experience some of the exciting teaching, cutting-edge research, and noteworthy events that define and distinguish the University today—right [...]
Educators explore ‘Second Life’ online. ‘The classroom of the future isn’t on a college campus. It’s in the virtual world of “Second Life”. In “Second Life,” virtual residents - cartoonish-looking characters controlled via keyboard and mouse - create anything their hearts desire. Also known as avatars, the residents start up businesses, stage their own concerts, [...]
Real learning in a virtual world. ‘They may be college teachers and students, but they’re also pioneers - exploring strange new worlds that exist nowhere on Earth. That’s because their classes and field trips take place only on computers, using an online digital world called Second Life. Some 60 schools and universities have set up [...]
FT.com / Business education - Home truths from Harvard. ‘This autumn HBS will introduce two newly revamped executive programmes – the leadership development programme and the general management programme – responding to that industry feedback. The biggest changes include introducing more distance-learning products as well as shortening the lengths of the programmes. In addition, HBS [...]
Technology creates lectures on demand. ‘A video-capture technology first adopted by network news outlets such as CNN and Fox News is now appearing on college campuses, including Harvard, Michigan State, and Temple universities, to record live classroom lectures and presentations and post them to the internet for students to review. University officials say the technology [...]
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