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...YouTube going high-brow? The answer involves revenue (the Edu hub has room for one or two ads on its home page), social relevance and perhaps a bit of rivalry. More than 170 schools offer content free to the public on Apple's iTunes U, which originated in 2004 as a way for colleges to distribute content privately to their own students. The partnership has been a win-win: universities get a cost-cutting distribution tool, and Apple's products become must-haves on campus...
...serves as president of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, says it's worth the expense, since the online content attracts prospective students, keeps alumni connected and encourages innovation. Schools have decided that these benefits outweigh the concerns about cost, intellectual property and devaluation of élite degrees. After all, the free material does not add up to a diploma, and viewers can't interact with the faculty. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
USAGE: "A surgical bankruptcy that makes the domestic auto industry stronger is something that may not be desirable, but inevitable, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said in Detroit." --Detroit Free Press, April...
Everyone but Efron, that is. By now he's restless with being the pinup boy on Brownies' bedroom walls. He's turned down a remake of Footloose, the '80s high school musical, to free up time for more mature films. "I'm ready for new challenges," Efron told Cindy Pearlman of the Chicago Sun-Times. "I want to act and do serious roles." (He's already made an indie film, Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, in which he plays a struggling actor who's ... 17.) But how to make the transition? Does he carry the tweens into their...
...does a great job,” he added. To top it off, Gillepsie does it all with a massive beard. “I think it makes him look like a 40-year-old man,” Saretsky said. “He is certainly a free spirit. It’s his thing and I’m all about the individual.”“I haven’t performed any sort of experiment, but I guess I could shave half of my face and go half as much faster...