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...producing content for global consumption can be hugely expensive. MIT, an open-courseware pioneer that since 2002 has published text materials such as lecture notes and syllabi for about 85% of its curriculum, spends more than $10,000 per course to compile, publish and license text materials; classes with videos cost twice as much...
...program’s many proponents offered a variety of reasons, both practical and intellectual, for why a great books curriculum would at least be useful on an optional basis...
...Others said that they felt that what Armitage called “a radical move for students to deploy their intellectual armory” might in fact be a very sensible move to complement the College’s soon-to-be-launched Gen Ed curriculum...
...English professor Louis Menand—one of the architects of the Gen Ed program—said that he would love to see great books courses being taught in the new curriculum since they “would look new” amidst a Gen Ed slate heavily populated with curricular holdovers...
...committee rejected the course because they did not believe it belonged in the new curriculum, according to Philosophy professor Edward J. Hall, who serves on both the Gen Ed committee and the subcommittee that reviews course proposals in the humanities...