My New Year Resolution

I read about Walter Lewin on Blogrunner. He is a Physic Professor at MIT who has become a great hit on the Internet. You can sign up for his classical physic class by clicking here. You can sign up for his class on Electricity and Magnetism by clicking here. Make sure to look at his videos.
I have been joking around about teaching in the Wray theater but now I am serious! I need to come up with interesting scripts for Economics to be taught in the Wray theater. I need to find one of those striking writers to help me with the script.

Using Open Courseware as a Yardstick

Reading the orange county Register, I saw an article discussing the high cost of textbooks. They provided links to the Open Courseware Consortium . I followed the link and found various Universities offer their courses to the world wide web for free. Universities participating in the United States include M.I.T , Utah State University , and U.C. Irvine. However, there are other schools around the globe which participate in this program. The best (using the relevance of their offerings compared to our offerings at Rio as a criteria) overseas programs were provided in Vietnam by the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program.
I started thinking to myself "this is a good place to find a comparable course and compare our own courses."
We could ask ourselves the following questions:

1. Are our courses as easy or as difficult as these courses?
2. Are our course material up to par with these schools?
   

A Viral Video by an Anthropologist

This video went viral. It was created by an Anthropologist. I read about it at Inside Higher Ed. You can read the article by clicking on the title of this post.

Compare Your Class To MIT (Click Here)

This is the link to the MIT Open Courseware site. There is also the Open Courseware Consortium . I have not had time to look through the consortium website, but maybe my officemate can look through it and post back.