{"id":1461,"date":"2011-12-07T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:37:44","slug":"the-teaching-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/12\/07\/the-teaching-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teaching Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am thinking of the benefits of technology for education, I cannot skip mentioning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/tgc\/special\/worlds-greatest-structures.aspx?ai=63127&amp;cm_mmc=email-_-EMAIL20111201AFL_63127-_-na-_-na\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Courses <\/a>company, also known as The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Teaching_Company\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Company<\/a>. This company videotapes the very best lectures and distributes them as DVDs or audio files. The first time I encountered them was listening to the lectures on the History of the English Language by Prof. Seth Lerer. I fell in love with these lectures. When people like them lecture, you realize how engaging their &#8220;teacher-centered&#8221; classrooms can be. Now, I was invited by a colleague to listen to a free lecture about the World&#8217;s greatest structures. I invite you to explore this company and the lectures. It is a real eye opening experience.<\/p>\n<p>Just for your information, listen to an interview with one of the profs you will find in The Teaching Company &#8211; a Standford Professor, Seth Lerer. You will love listening to his lectures &#8211; it is a real jewel.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VM21gNeWVeQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am thinking of the benefits of technology for education, I cannot skip mentioning The Great Courses company, also known as The Teaching Company. This company videotapes the very best lectures and distributes them as DVDs or audio files&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/12\/07\/the-teaching-company\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Teaching Company<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,6989,4899,236253,2708,6912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-outreach","category-science-in-everyday-life","category-teacher-education","category-technology-and-learning","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}