Word: syllabus
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...pupils returned to class. Some students needed surrogate parents, others just answers to the very questions vexing their teachers. Consequently, schools that in recent years have banished emotions and hugs as they have Bibles spent whole periods probing feelings. This swiftly became American history week, no matter what the syllabus said...
...program will be those outside of Cambridge. By using OpenCourseWare, teachers can benefit from the expertise that has gone into crafting the MIT curriculum; education researchers can debate what topics should be included in standard courses; high-schoolers without access to quality instruction can download a syllabus and check out a textbook from a public library. Universities frequently spend millions in public-relations gestures to demonstrate the benefits they offer to the outside world; OpenCourseWare could be far more effective in promoting learning at far less cost...
Furthermore, if this material is to be on the Web for students, it should be made accessible to all Internet users. Digital information exchange changes the old equation of the exclusive university. Reading a syllabus is not like checking out a book from Widener Library—students would not be inhibited in their use of Harvard’s resources should others be allowed to benefit as well. If the marginal cost of transmitting these resources to others approaches zero, Harvard should not impose an artificial scarcity. As a global institution of higher education, Harvard has a responsibility...
...each unit for which you pass one test, your grade will be raised by 1 point on the 100-point scale that section leaders use to determine letter grades," the course's syllabus says...
...syllabus states, "unit tests act like an insurance policy. They certainly don't guarantee that your letter grade will be higher, but if your pre-unit test scores put you very close to the cut-off between two letter grades, passing all of the unit tests will insure that you get the higher grade...