open yale
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale
College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span
the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social
sciences, and physical and biological sciences. Registration is not required No
course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses
website. The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the
world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high
school and college students. The integrated, highly flexible web interface
allows users, in effect, to audit Yale undergraduate courses if they wish to. It
also gives the user a wide variety of other options for structuring the learning
process, for example downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.
Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video
accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and
problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an
audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each
lecture are provided. Who Leads Open Yale Courses? Diana E. E. Kleiner, Dunham
Professor of History of Art and Classics and former Deputy Provost, is Founding
Project Director and Principal Investigator of Open Yale Courses. Professor
Kleiner brings to the project a wealth of experience in the development of
Internet educational offerings as well as her long-time experience as Yale
professor, scholar, and administrator.
