Hebrew University goes global – thanks to accredited online courses with eTeacher

Courses in Biblical Hebrew attract students from Lebanon

Jerusalem, August 12, 2010

For the first time, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will award academic credits to students who study its courses via the Internet – enabling students from any country in the world to study a Hebrew University program.

The first session of students to recently complete an online Hebrew University course in Biblical Hebrew includes thirty students from Lebanon, Singapore, Peru, Argentina, Holland, Ireland, Denmark, France and Italy.

The lessons are conducted in small groups via the online study site of the Company, eTeacher, which recently signed an agreement of cooperation with Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University. The courses have the same academic requirements as regular courses within the university, which include attendance requirements, submitting exercises and oral exams conducted via video.

The unique online course was the initiative of the dean of the faculty of humanities, Prof. Israel Bartal, who understands that there is a demand for Hebrew University's cultural assets. "Through the Internet, the university is opening its gates to teaching courses in the humanities which are a unique resource of knowledge throughout the world. The first pilot program is in Biblical and Modern Hebrew. These are fields of study in which the Hebrew University is certainly the best in the world and so it is possible to offer these courses to students in the global marketplace."

Vice President and Director General of the Hebrew University, Billy Shapira, adds, "The potential of the Hebrew University to spread the knowledge of its best researchers has great implications and ranks the university in the global arena in the field of teaching."

Cooperation between the Hebrew University and eTeacher will enable the university to add additional courses to the virtual system and to advance online teaching. According to the director of eTeacher in Israel, Yariv Ben-Nun, "We are happy and proud to provide our unique knowledge and experience to Hebrew University. I believe we will be able to do big things together."

Yissum Representative in charge of CS & IT technologies - Tamir Huberman VP Business Development & IT Director of Yissum (Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University)

For details of Biblical Hebrew studies on eTeacher:
http://www.eteacherbiblical.com/default.asp

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem Ltd. was founded in 1964 to protect and commercialize the Hebrew
University’s intellectual property. Products based on Hebrew University
technologies that have been commercialized by Yissum currently generate $2
Billion in annual sales. Ranked among the top technology transfer companies
in the world, Yissum has registered over 8,500 patents covering 2,400 inventions; has licensed out 750 technologies and has spun out 90 companies. Yissum’s business partners span the globe and include companies such as Syngenta, Monsanto, Roche, Novartis, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Intel, Teva and many more. For further information please visit www.yissum.co.il.

Tamir Huberman
Hi-Tech Park, Givat Ram, PO BOX 39135
Jerusalem, Israel
91390

This release was published on openPR.