Statement from Prof. Cam Harvey, Duke University:
I am doing a live webcast of my MBA elective, “Global Asset Allocation and Stock Selection.” To my knowledge, this is the first time an MBA course has been live webcast. Duke is allowing non-Duke students (virtually) into the classroom for this highly specialized elective course. If you know anyone who might be interested in this course, please point them to
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Teaching/BA453_2001/webcast_moreinfo. htm
Digital Island (who is one of the world leaders in professional webcasting) will broadcast the course. [This is especially important in Europe and Asia because they have direct feeds to important international rims, i.e. bypassing the Internet. This provides for excellent video delivery all over the world.]
The event has created considerable interest in the media, for example,
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jan2001/bs2001013_730.htm
Dean LeBaron comment: The live, open MBA is especially interesting. Pricing is a little stiff. I would have tried coming up from the other end, say $100 for audits and $1000 for credit (with tutorial, papers and test) to see what the global market would be. And line up some students at FAME in Switzerland, Russia, China, India and so forth.
And the next iteration could do games/simulations rather than just lectures (lectures are the equivalent of early web moves to copy brochure pages rather than be interactive and personal).