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...make crawfish étouffée from an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America or study blues guitar with a professor at Berklee College of Music, you can do it all in front of your computer, courtesy of other people's money. In March, YouTube launched an education hub called YouTube Edu, dedicated exclusively to videos from the more than 100 schools--ranging from Grand Rapids Community College to Harvard Business School--that have set up official channels on the site. Liberated from the viral stew of pop-culture vlogs and silly cat videos, the collection highlights how much free...
...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...
...Established as a response to Dubai’s call for improved health care infrastructure, HMSDC has served as both an educational institution and a hub for research on health problems endemic to the area, as well as health care strategies that could be applied worldwide. And even in the face of the global economic recession, it is still going strong...
...April 15 and ended in June 1989, activists here are already busy holding discussion panels and meetings across the city. Hong Kong, with its unique political and legal traditions, is the only city under China's rule that permits activities observing the 1989 democracy movement, and has become a hub for activists and dissidents to foster and maintain an active Chinese political scene...
...front mansions lined the avenue, Sullivan said. But the area began to become more commercial in the early 1900s as the city’s population grew. According to Sullivan, there were no apartments or stores on Massachusetts Avenue until 1914, posing a stark contrast to the shop-lined hub that tourists see today. “It was very important to preserve this history,†said Sullivan of the street’s residential character. 1637 Massachusetts Avenue is the largest of the restored wood-front buildings, and once housed a Ukrainian research institute before Harvard acquired...