This is one of those courses that slowly grows on you. This is not only a window into astronomy, but a first hand look into the mind of an astronomer. Stick with Charles Bailyn for a few lectures...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2014/02/yale-astro-160-frontiers-and.html
It’s all about attention span. That’s the only way I can explain MOOCs, a new version of the correspondence course. There are three main platforms in the U.S., all developing courses through...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2014/01/moocs-massive-open-online-courses.html
Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are now a part of the world we live in. Sheldon Cooper in the CBS comedy “The Big Bang Theory” is in our living rooms three nights a week. Temple ...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2013/12/yale-university-autism-and-related.html
The key to this blog has been lost and its future is uncertain. I have retired from driving a big truck around the U.S. Gone are those endless hours of driving and listening to university course...
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Gandhi The most important lesson I�...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/09/ucla-history-175c-topics-in.html
Nearly fifteen years ago I was watching an interview of an Italian writer who said "I am Italian but I am also European." Surprised, I realized something was afoot in Europe, but I had little un...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/07/latrobe-university-european-union.html
What is the big attraction in all these “law” courses? Here’s my best answer. At the top is political philosophy, “we the people”, “freedom of speech”, “due process of law,” or ...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/05/uc-berkeley-media-studies-104-free.html
Michael Parrish keeps getting better and here he is in top form. This is actually the second of two courses on the subject, but the first one HIUS 155A is unavailable online. However, this course...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/05/uc-san-diego-hius-155b-religion-and-law.html
The Look In the late sixties at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, all male biology students looked just like Robert Sapolsky. Liberal arts majors tried hard to replicate the look, but it was ...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/04/stanford-university-human-behavior.html
Continuing my immersion in legal studies, I’ve found some remarkable individual lectures from Yale Law School. Go to Yale’s iTunesU site and click on “Yale Law School” on the right side ...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/03/yale-law-school-guest-lectures.html
Some time ago I described “the pinball effect” in learning. That is when new information starts bouncing off existing information causing flashing lights and bells of new insights. I thought...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2012/03/ucsd-huis-150-american-legal-history-to.html
If this sounds interesting download it now and listen later, as it will likely disappear in the coming weeks. Glenn Smith is a professor at the California Western School of Law, San Diego, and is...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/11/ucsd-p-sc104a-supreme-court-and.html
Sometimes you just can’t stay positive. This course has given me fits. I listened to it some time ago and could not figure out what to say about it. Usually when I don’t like a course I simpl...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/11/yale-university-environmental-politics.html
“Fish are always the last to see the water.” That’s how Professor Brown describes the difficulty in grasping the nature of this course. We live in a sea of property but never think of prope...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/11/uc-berkeley-legal-studies-140-property.html
The facts are clear, and historians agree, that the Red Army deserves most of the credit for defeating Hitler. However, it's not what historians say, but rather how much time they give a subject...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/10/writer-at-war-soviet-journalist-with.html
Professor Bulliet has returned to complete this two semester course on world history. (See my Jan. 4th review of the first semester.) As one of the authors of the world history textbook,"The Eart...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/10/columbia-university-w3903-history-of_20.html
This is one of the ten new courses offered by Yale and it's outstanding! (Just search "open yale courses.")There are twenty-five fifty-minute lectures, each one carefully prepared and beautifull...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/07/yale-university-hist-116-american.html
AND A BOOK BY CAROLINE ELKINS "IMPERIAL RECKONING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S GULAG IN KENYA" I like everything about this course. Professor Wrightson has been researching, writing and teachi...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/06/yale-university-early-modern-england.html
These are both excellent courses. They cover the same content; both professors are experienced teachers as well as working photographers. I listened to Arnold's course first, took notes, and loo...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/06/two-courses-on-history-of-photography.html
At minute 38 in the first lecture, light bulbs went off in my head and before the end of the lecture I had decided on a plan. Dan Armendariz strongly and repeatedly advised his students not to b...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/04/harvard-universitys-extension-school.html
How did our ancestors first acquire language, and when did it happen? The short answer is nobody knows. Much of the speculation says something happened about 60 to 100 thousand years ago to prime...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/03/terrence-w-deacon-and-curious-case-of.html
Harvard was left standing on the dock when Berkeley, and many other universities began putting a lot of really good courses online. Harvard still doesn't get it. They act like podcasts are a hol...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/02/harvard-university-extension-school.html
This course comes with my highest recommendation. The content is unique and in depth. Professor Smith is a calm, kindly teacher, and both a candid and a precise lecturer. This is not an easy cou...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/01/berkeley-intellectual-history-of-united.html
History, according to professor Bulliet, does not revolve around people. But we have all been fed a history dominated by pharaohs, caesars, emperors, kings and queens, generals and presidents. M...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2011/01/columbia-university-w3902-history-of.html
This is a remarkable course delivered over two semesters in 1985. It is 54 lectures, each 45 minutes long. Listed below are the titles of each lecture which will probably be more useful than my c...
http://baxterwood.blogspot.com/2010/11/university-of-wisconsin-madison-western.html