From Colgate University:
Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at Colgate, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at no charge through Udemy’s Faculty Project.
“I went into this believing it’s a public service and would advance anyone who is interested in Greek religion,” Garland said. “And as a humanist, I feel that I should do this in defense of the humanities.”
Garland has experience offering online course content. A couple of years ago, he recorded an 18-hour course, Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean, for The Teaching Company. That program, he said, is aimed at professionals and life-long learners who can afford to buy it.
His program for Udemy is much more casual. In the past week, Garland posted 18 monologues, each one 15-20 minutes long. He recorded them in his home office using an external microphone and his computer’s built-in camera.
“I basically just talked about a subject that interests me, and that I haven’t taught at Colgate, or anywhere else, in at least a decade.”
Garland’s academic specialties include Greek religion, urban development, and society and social values. He is the author of several books including Religion and the Greeks (Duckworth Publishers, 2001).
- via: Teaching (and preaching) the humanities online (Colgate University)
The Colgate piece also has a link to the ‘sign up’ page for Garland’s course, but there are more (and it’s somewhat difficult to find things of interest to us, so here’s what I managed to find) … I think all of these are free (perhaps just the first lecture?), although there are some ‘payfer’ courses on the site too; some might mirror things on iTunes:
- Ancient Greek Religion Learning How to Worship the Greek Gods (Robert Garland)
- Latin 101 (Brian Craig … only one lecture there)
- History of Art 252: Roman Architecture(Diana Kleiner)
