The Teaching Company

The Teaching Company

__NOTOC__The Teaching Company is a Chantilly, Virginia company that produces recordings of lectures by nationally top-ranked university professors. The professors create courses for the company in a special studio located outside of Washington DC; they are then offered for sale in audiotape, CD, DVD, MPEG-4, and MP3 formats.

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. He initially tried to create a government program to produce tapes for the public, but due to Constitutional constraints was not able to. After leaving office the idea stayed with him and he started seeking out top professors to create courses for sale to the public.

As of 2007 the company offers more than 260 courses, which span more than 3,000 hours of content across nine subject categories: Business and Economics, Fine Arts and Music, Ancient and Medieval History, Modern History, Literature and English Language, Philosophy and Intellectual History, Religion, Science and Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

Course offerings are targeted to adult education and life-learners, typical of what would be seen in a University or College undergraduate program for non-majors; there is also a series for high school students. Courses include supplemental booklets with outlines of the individual lectures, recommended reading lists, general bibliographies, and questions to consider. Full printed transcripts are also available.

Courses are available in many formats. Originally, you could get any course in audio cassette or VHS tape. CD and DVD versions followed soon thereafter, and today there are MP3 downloads of the courses.

On October 2, 2006, the company was acquired by Brentwood Associates, a private equity investment firm. [ [http://www.berkerynoyes.com/TransactionDetails.aspx?DealId=233&PageId=14 "Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents The Teaching Company in its sale to Brentwood Associates"] , October 3, 2006.]


=Partial list of instructors=Col-begin
* Arthur T. Benjamin
* Bob Brier
* Sean M. Carroll
* Philip Daileader
* Dennis Dalton
* Malcolm David Eckel
* Bart D. Ehrman
* John Esposito
* Brian M. Fagan
* J. Rufus Fears
* Alexei Filippenko
* Sylvester James Gates
* Steven L. Goldman
* Anthony A. Goodman
* Robert Greenberg
* Allen C. Guelzo
* James Hall (philosopher)
* Ken Hammond
* Kenneth W. Harl
* Peter H. Irons
* Luke Timothy Johnson
* Douglas Kellner
* Alan Charles Kors
* Edward Larson
* Amy-Jill Levine
* Allan Lichtman
* John McWhorter
* Sherwin B. Nuland
* Joseph Nye
* Robert A. Oden
* Daniel N. Robinson
* Rick Roderick
* Robert Sapolsky
* John Searle
* Jeremy Shearmur
* Seth Shostak
* Robert C. Solomon
* Michael Starbird
* Jonathan Steinberg
* Timothy Taylor (economist)
* Neil deGrasse Tyson
* Arnold Weinstein
* Richard Wolfson (physicist)
* Elizabeth Vandiver

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External links

* [http://www.teach12.com The Teaching Company]


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