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Educational Twitter Leads to Class Moving Online, for Free

by Tim Stevens on August 17, 2008 at 09:03 AM

Educational Twitter Leads to Class Moving Online, for FreeDo your professors twitter? Do they blog, or even e-mail? Professor Dave Parry from the University of Texas at Dallas does all of the above. Now, after twittering to solicit some ideas for taking one of his classes online, Parry is taking things a step further by opening up the seminar to (almost) anyone who wants to join in, free of cost -- assuming his school goes along with it.

Online classes are of course nothing new, the Internet equivalent of correspondence courses of yore, but the one Parry hopes to offer to anyone is a bit different. The course is a graduate seminar on emerging media, entailing a lot of reading and discussion, but very little classroom-heavy presentation, which makes it ideal for moving into the online world of chat rooms and forums. So, yes, the class is free and open to anyone -- but right now Parry is thinking of limiting it to only 10 and to grad students at other universities. If you're interested, better apply soon! [Source: ars technica]

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