The Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures in Accounting, beginning 1973-74 in the Newman Library Digital Collections are a service of Baruch College. Baruch is a major center of thought and teaching in business fields of finance, accounting, and other topics where understanding is urgent today.
These lectures are a pioneering example of open educational resources (OER).
This week Jimmy Atkinson of The .Edu Toolbox sent me their new list of just compiled a list of our favorite open courseware directories, search engines, and Web tools. These listings demonstrate the bountiful OER available now for learning and teaching.The Saxe Lectures are proof of the durability of small OER nodes. A full ten years ago, in 1999, I reviewed this early OER offering in the Top 8 newsletter I wrote for HomeworkCentral.com. What I wrote then included this about Saxe’s devotion to teaching, which endures in digits today: “We learn in these pages about Emanuel Saxe’s long and distinguished career as a teacher and Dean of Baruch’s School of Business in Manhattan. His sincere concern for his students and the college led to the School of Business being referred to informally as “Saxe’s 23rd Street”. Now the scholarship he inspired travels the information highway.”
