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| '''The Teaching Company''' makes [[college]]-level courses from prominent [[professor|professors]] and [[scholarship|scholars]] available in recorded formats by top-ranked teachers. The courses cover a variety of disciplines. The company is based in Chantilly, [[Virginia]] and is headed by Thomas M. Rollins. Courses are available in different formats including [[audiotape]], [[CD-audio]], [[DVD]], and [[MP3]] formats. Content is pitched towards continuing [[education]], particularly for [[adult|adults]], and are often available at [[public library|public libraries]]. | | '''The Teaching Company''' is a publisher offering, under the brand name ''The Great Courses'', video and audio recordings of college-level lectures. |
| | | The company was founded in 1990 by Thomas M. Rollins, a former government employee, and is based in Chantilly, [[Virginia]]. |
| The company was founded in 1990 by [[Thomas M. Rollins]], former Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and a graduate of [[Harvard Law School]], who noticed the effectiveness of videotapes in learning during his study.<ref name="katebales"> | |
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| | title=Ivy League Courses for Price of a Video
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| | date=February 16, 1994
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| | url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/news/16iht-videduc.html
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| | work=The New York Times
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| | accessdate=2009-06-21
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| }}</ref> He initially tried to create a government program to produce tapes for the public, but was unable to do so because of legal restrictions.<ref name="katebales"/> After leaving office the idea stayed with him and he started seeking out top professors to create courses for sale to the public, according to the Teaching Company website.<ref>Teaching Company website - ''Our history''</ref>
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| Rollins persevered. He selects professors personally in many instances, and gets feedback from customers as well as members of the academic community. The ideal teacher is a recognized [[expert]] and established [[scholarship|scholar]] in a given subject area who has excellent [[teaching]] and [[communication]] skills. For example, [[Classics|classics]] expert [[Elizabeth Vandiver]] and former [[library|librarian]] is a widely-respected authority on subjects such as [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]] as well as [[epic]] [[poetry|poems]] such as the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', and the ''[[Aeneid]]''. The Teaching Company offers several courses by Dr. Vandiver. By 2009, there were more than 300 courses with 3,000 hours of content in the following subject categories:
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| * [[Business]]
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| * [[Economics]]
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| * [[Fine Arts]]
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| * [[Music]]
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| * [[Ancient History]]
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| * [[Medieval History]]
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| * [[Modern History]]
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| * [[Literature]]
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| * [[English Language]]
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| * [[Philosophy]]
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| * [[Intellectual History]]
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| * [[Religion]]
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| * [[Science]]
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| * [[Mathematics]]
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| * [[Social Sciences]].
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| [[Image:Alexei Filippenko.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Picture of a man smiling.|[[Astronomy|Astronomer]] [[Alexei Filippenko]] teaches courses for the Teaching Company, some of which are on [[DVD]].]]
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| ==Professors and scholars featured in ''The Teaching Company'' courses==
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| * [[Kenneth R. Bartlett]]
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| * [[Arthur T. Benjamin]]
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| * [[Bob Brier]]
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| * [[Sean M. Carroll]]
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| * [[Phillip Cary]]
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| * [[Philip Daileader]]
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| * [[Dennis Dalton]]
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| * [[Malcolm David Eckel]]
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| * [[Bart D. Ehrman]]
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| * [[John Esposito]]
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| * [[Brian M. Fagan]]
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| * [[J. Rufus Fears]]
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| * [[Alexei Filippenko]]
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| * [[Sylvester James Gates]]
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| * [[Steven L. Goldman]]
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| * [[Anthony A. Goodman]]
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| * [[Robert Greenberg]]
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| * [[Allen C. Guelzo]]
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| * [[James Hall (philosopher)|James Hall]]
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| * [[Ken Hammond]]
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| * [[Kenneth W. Harl]]
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| * [[Peter H. Irons]]
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| * [[Luke Timothy Johnson]]
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| * [[Douglas Kellner]]
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| * [[Alan Charles Kors]]
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| * [[Edward Larson]]
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| * [[Seth Lerer]]
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| * [[Amy-Jill Levine]]
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| * [[Allan Lichtman]]
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| * [[John McWhorter]]
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| * [[Sherwin B. Nuland]]
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| * [[Joseph Nye]]
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| * [[Robert A. Oden]]
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| * [[Daniel N. Robinson]]
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| * [[Rick Roderick]]
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| * [[Robert Sapolsky]]
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| * [[Benjamin Schumacher]]
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| * [[John Searle]]
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| * [[Jeremy Shearmur]]
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| * [[Seth Shostak]]
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| * [[Robert C. Solomon]]
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| * [[Michael Starbird]]
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| * [[Edward B. Burger]]
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| * [[Jonathan Steinberg]]
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| * [[Steven Strogatz]]
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| * [[Timothy Taylor (economist)|Timothy Taylor]]
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| * [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]
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| * [[Elizabeth Vandiver]]
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| * [[Irwin Weil]]
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| * [[Arnold Weinstein]]
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| * [[Richard Wolfson (physicist)|Richard Wolfson]]
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| * [[David Zarefsky]]
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| (others)
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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