The Chronicle of Higher Education

Open Education’s
Wide World of Possibilities
By KATHERINE MANGAN
IN THE FOUR YEARS that his modern-poetry course has been offered free online, Langdon Hammer, a professor of English at Yale University, has gotten a kick out of the e- mails he has received from students around the world. “Every week or so I get a message from someone some-
where who’s listening to the lectures and wants to get in touch,”
Mr. Hammer says. There was the man who downloaded his
lectures onto a DVD so his father could listen while he jogged
on the treadmill, the poet in Iran who said the lectures inspired
her own teaching, and the friends who thanked him for making
their morning commutes a little less stressful.

COURTESY OF GAGO
Skal Bzang Tse Brtan (Gago) grew up herding yaks in Tibet. He now leads education projects
in his home region and studies H TML and modern poetry online through Yale U.’s open classes.

B4 THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION • THE DIGITAL CAMPUS
MAY 4, 2012

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