Digitization | ‘Open Yale’ sparks global interest
About a month after his “Fundamentals of Physics” course was posted on the Open Yale Courses Web site in December 2007, physics professor Ramamurti Shankar received an e-mail from a high school teacher at Victoria Bilingual Christian Academy in Quito, Ecuador.
“This has been a blessing to me,” the teacher, Raul Morillo, wrote in the e-mail. “I am trying to take advantage of it as long as I can.”
The school is a poor one, Morillo told the News in a phone interview last Thursday. They watched the lectures on one of five computers in the entire school.
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Any philanthropically inclined people out there should consider trying to track down the address of Victoria Bilingual Christian Academy, and maybe send them a donation of money or computer equipment.
Jon K. '78 (BK)