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Music - http://oyc.yale.edu/music/listening-to-music
MUSI 112 - Listening to Music, Fall 2008 - Professor Craig Wright

About the Course
This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music. The musical novice is introduced to the ways in which music is put together and is taught how to listen to a wide variety of musical styles, from Bach and Mozart, to Gregorian chant, to the blues.

1. Does the course appear to be carefully pre-planned and designed for a distance learning environment? How so?
Answer: Yes. The course is dived into 23 sessions, from the introduction to the review of musical style. The components used in the course are; the syllabus, course calendar announcements, assignment instructions, learning objectives, student roster, etc. The content presentation ranges from media to pdf files for download. Another essential layout of the course is the student assessments (course evaluation tools). The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high school and college students. The integrated, highly flexible web interface allows users, in effect, to audit Yale undergraduate courses if they wish to. It also gives the user a wide variety of other options for structuring the learning process, for example downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.

2. Does the course follow the recommendations for online instruction as listed in your course textbook?
Answer: No. The course is not a course earned towards a degree; therefore, the course presents an opportunity for other learners to have an idea of the layout of an online classroom may function. In fact, Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

3. Did the course designer implement course activities that maximize active learning for the students?
Answer: Twenty three sessions are included, within each session includes a class lecture (Transcripts, Audio and Video). Each session has a description of the course’s overview, informing each student of the purpose for scheduling the courses. Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as download-able videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, search-able transcripts of each lecture are provided.

This page lists frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the goals, scope, and production of Open Yale Courses.

Reference:
1. Yale University 2010. http://oyc.yale.edu/about#q1