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Ever wondered what a Yale course looks like? Well now you can find out what all the hype is about. “Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.”

As an instructional designer I am always intrigued about the different ways people learn online. For example, Yale provides Text, Audio, and Video alternatives for each lecture. What method of delivery is most effective for your personal learning style? I like text because it is scannable and searchable. I like audio and video because I can gain a better understanding of the speakers personality and feelings. Do you think people can learn the materials better by sitting in the large lecture halls or by engaging the lectures online at their computer with instant access to all that is available on the internet? Remember that the internet is not only a great place to store and access information but an even better place for communication and collaboration via real-time and asynchronous communication platforms. Imagine watching the lecture video and cross referencing a source the lecturer cited. Then, after pondering a statement by the professor, you pause the video to post a question at a discussion forum for which all of your peers have an opportunity to address it rather than just one or two that could respond in a live classroom setting. Just something to think about.

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Interview with Anthony Fontana, about art, technology, online teaching, and the classroom of the future. Anthony Fontana is an Instructor for the School of Art. Click here to read his blog on the The Polychronic Classroom.
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The strategic use of audio, video, images, and text, is crucial to designing learning environments in online courses. Bubbleshare is a simple to use product with cool implications for the online instructor. It allows the users to include audio and video narration to images. This is great for telling stories, critiquing photography and other forms of media, language learning, and more.

I contacted them because the audio and video is not working when I embedded it in this blog so hopefully they will be able to get it fixed. If you click on the image below, you will see what is supposed to happen.