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The Teaching Company, doing business as "The Great Courses," formerly Wondrium, is a media production company that produces educational, video, and audio content in the form of courses, documentaries, and series under two content brands: The Great Courses Plus and The Great Courses. [1] The company distributes their content globally through a ...
Roderick was born in Abilene, Texas, on June 16, 1949, son of (by his own description [1]) a "con-man" and a "beautician". He was a teacher of philosophy at several universities, where he was much revered by many students for a Socratic style of teaching combined with a brash and often humorous approach. His breakthrough into wider circles came ...
J. Rufus Fears. Jesse Rufus Fears (March 7, 1945 – October 6, 2012 [1]) was an American historian, scholar, educator, and author writing on the subjects of Ancient history, The History of Liberty, and classical studies. He is best known for his many lectures for the Teaching Company.
Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap (ISBN 0470432861) is a book by Steven Farr, Chief Knowledge Office at Teach For America, published by Jossey Bass in 2010. The book outlines six principles that Farr believes will help teachers become leaders within the classroom, in particular ...
Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014 by Cindy Mi, the VIPKid platform connects paying students with teachers in the United States and Canada. [1][2] Its online-classroom portal enables students to receive 25-minute English language lessons from fluent English-speaking teachers. [3][4] Students and teachers communicate via its global ...
Phillip Cary. Phillip S. Cary (born 1958) is an American philosopher who serves as a professor at Eastern University with a concentration on Augustine of Hippo and the history of the reception of Augustine's thought. Born on June 10, 1958, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University under Nicholas Wolterstorff.
KTP was launched in 2003, replacing the Teaching Company Scheme (TCS), which had been formed in 1975. The programme is funded by some 17 public sector organisations, and led by Innovate UK , an executive non-departmental public body reporting to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy .
Robert Allen Oden Jr. (/ oʊˈdiːn /; born September 11, 1946) [1] was the president of Kenyon College from 1995 to 2002, [2] and president of Carleton College from 2002 to 2010. [3] He was also a significant professor in the early years of The Teaching Company, contributing several courses— God and Mankind: Comparative Religions, The ...