{"id":456,"date":"2011-01-10T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/open-access-teaching-of-modern-and-ancient-languages\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T09:23:00","slug":"open-access-teaching-of-modern-and-ancient-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/open-access-teaching-of-modern-and-ancient-languages.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Teaching of Modern and Ancient Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/focus\/technology\/recent\/mla_embraces_digital_humanities_and_blogging\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">articles in <em>Inside Higher Education<\/em><\/a> \u2013\u00a0focused on the field of\u00a0modern languages \u2013 discuss the subject of open access scholarly publication and open access teaching.<\/p>\n<p>I have been wondering whether it would be possible for us to offer languages like Greek and Hebrew at Butler University even when we cannot persuade the administration that it is economically feasible to hire an adjunct to teach a class for the number of students we\u2019d have enrolled, by using lecture materials and other learning aids (e.g. on iTunesU) and simply having a Butler professor meet with them regularly to administer quizzes and exams.<\/p>\n<p>I can see how, what might seem like an advantage to smaller schools and programs, could also seem like a threat to others, where the availability of such materials might seem to threaten existing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>What is your perception of how the increasing availability of online teaching materials and publications is changing the educational world?<\/p>\n<p>On a related topic, <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com\/ancient_hebrew_poetry\/2011\/01\/modern-medieval-hebrew-poetry.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancienthebrewpoetry+%28Ancient+Hebrew+Poetry%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Hobbins linked<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medievalhebrewpoetry.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a blog focused on composition in Hebrew as a means to language acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3374175684904794852?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent articles in Inside Higher Education \u2013\u00a0focused on the field of\u00a0modern languages \u2013 discuss the subject of open access scholarly publication and open access teaching. 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