Open Education's Wide World of Possibilities

Courtesy of Gago

Skal Bzang Tse Brtan (Gago) grew up herding yaks in Tibet. He now leads education projects in his home region and studies HTML and modern poetry online through Yale U.'s open classes.

By Katherine Mangan

In the four years that his modern-poetry course has been offered free online, Langdon Hammer, a professor of English at Yale University, has gotten a kick out of the e-mails he has received from students around the world.

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