You can call it a syllabus, an online textbook, a course.
Many courses put all materials -- textbook excerpts, articles, syllabuses -- online.
IP is investing instead in poor countries, where demand is still growing.As new generations of office workers leave university where their class notes and syllabuses are online these days they take their habits with them.
An online syllabus could reach many more students, and reduce tuition charges and eliminate room and board.
Game development community Design3 will offer The Games Academy's syllabus and materials online for teams who wish to participate virtually.
A three-condition, between participants controlled experiment (n=49) was designed to examine whether the level of interactivity in an online syllabus influences students' first impressions of the course and instructor.
The online syllabus launched on Aug. 27, and contains readings and resources from around the internet to help unpack the major themes explored by Jay-Z on the album.
With mobile access, they might be more likely to create online syllabuses and integrate the Web into their class assignments.
Ms. Pearson, 28, moved to Washington after graduating from the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto, eventually taking a job at Blackboard Inc., an Internet service allowing colleges to offer assignments, syllabuses and grades online.
While professors across the country have jumped into the digital realm with online syllabuses, Web-based assignments and e-mail discussion groups, most of them are still wary of using computers for final exams or other high-stakes tests, primarily because giving exams on computers opens a Pandora's box of problems.
