New York Times To Offer Online Accredited Courses

NEW YORK -- The New York Times Knowledge Network and New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University are teaming up to offer online courses in subjects ranging from homeland security studies to global health care.

The courses will be open to all students and they may be taken individually or used toward an academic certificate.

The Times started The New York Times Knowledge Network in 2007. Course offerings have included "Elder Care: Navigating the Maze" and "California Wines: Napa Cabernet."

Fairleigh Dickinson has two main campuses in New Jersey and two international campuses, one in Vancouver, B.C., and one in Wroxton, England.

The courses they are offering jointly will be taught by Fairleigh Dickinson faculty and will feature content from the Times' digital content repository.

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Comments

[berryessence]

06:30 PM on 05/11/2011

A newspaper giving online courses....

isn't that an oxymoron

[altohone]

12:09 AM on 05/11/2011

They teach how to print lies as fact but may withhold grades until after elections.

[didyouseethat]

05:57 PM on 05/10/2011

As long as it isn't in journalism, I'm ok with it.

[gman87]

04:02 PM on 05/10/2011

For extra credit, a student a taking the "Global Healthcare" class who becomes seriously ill can wait 2 months to get a CT scan or 4 months to get an MRI.

[TrucosR4Ninos]

04:42 PM on 05/10/2011

or maybe they can work two jobs, sell their house just to get the MRI.

[Roger Williams]

03:59 PM on 05/10/2011

how about: "how to not see a radical paradigm shift that was completely in your face and get run over by it, or how the NYT failed to understand the internet until it was too late."

[Ben Wiles]

03:49 PM on 05/10/2011

How about Civics courses?

[ravenshroud]

06:45 PM on 05/10/2011

It won't matter. No one is going to stop this collapsing country, I am hoping to save long enough to get out before the end.

[Ben Wiles]

09:20 AM on 05/11/2011

I guess you haven't traveled abroad very much. For all it's flaws I'm always relieved to come back home to the US.

[yomam]

02:47 PM on 05/10/2011

how many of their reporters got caught making up chit? maybe that will be the course, how to lie for years, but get away with it.

[billyboil]

02:36 PM on 05/10/2011

"homeland security studies ".????
brought to you by Dick, Colon & Bush?????????

[ssrelso]

02:09 PM on 05/10/2011

So, The Grey Lady is hoping to recreate the Washington Post business plan - own a very profitable for-profit "educational" enterprise (they own Kaplan) and use the profits to subsidize the losses at the newspaper. Bonus points: have the editorial board regularly write screeds extolling the virtues of for-profit online education.

[Joshua Chou]

01:52 PM on 05/10/2011

Id consider taking one if the class was under $390 a semester..

[HHHarry]

01:43 PM on 05/10/2011

I wonder if they offer a course on how to be relevant in the digital world.
The old gray lady, she ain't what she used to be.