Interactive education
Penn's College of Liberal and Professional Studies is utilizing the power of social networking to create an interactive online learning platform, called Open Learning Commons, that offers courses to a worldwide audience. Anyone can participate in the free program, regardless of enrollment status, education or location.
The course includes three levels: a private area where students and faculty from participating universities can meet and discuss; a membership level in which members can view video content and participate in blogs and discussion forums; and an open level in which any site visitor can view course lectures, blogs and forums, in read-only format.
Marni Baker Stein, LPS's director of program development says, "We just think that this is a great way for us to take our content and sort of break open the ways of the classroom so that these wider audiences can have a voice and take part."
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