"Our deputy head, Ian Lumsden, was interested in using ICT in subjects where you normally wouldn't find ICT and so he developed courses for subject areas like the arts.
"If you are paying for education, it is probably going to be written with a lot more forethought," Mr. Kornel said, adding, "I have not heard of any colleges saying, 'We'll give you credit for CodeWarriorU courses.' " NotHarvard.com is developing courses for other commercial Web sites, each of which will be designed with input from the host companies.
While EMBO first developed courses for scientists who had already been appointed as research group leaders, lately more postdocs—and even doctoral students—have been signing on, Glynn says.
Pluralsight will also invest in developing courses for social platform technologies like Twitter and Facebook, as well as in Java, Android, Ruby, PHP, and Python, as well as cloud platforms like Amazon's AWS, Google App Engine, Windows Azure and others.
Participating faculty will also be encouraged to develop courses specifically for Africana studies, including interdepartmental and/or team-taught courses.
But the primary task that loomed over me was to develop courses and prepare for the classroom.
They hold conferences, speak, write books and develop courses (complete with certificates) for a subject that is largely make-believe.
Slightly less than half of the projects (44.4%) were concerned with developing courses or curricula for the undergraduates or postgraduates.
In retirement, he worked for Lord Young of Dartington, developing courses and learning structures for the Open College of the Arts.
