and the idea of this,

这样做的目的是让
is to make educational materials available beyond the walls of Yale.

耶鲁外的人也能享受到这些教学资源
In fact, on the web, internationally,

课程将被发布到网络上
so people in places, maybe places in the U.S.

全球各地的人都能看到比如美国人
or places miles away, maybe in Timbuktu or whatever,

或者更遥远的国度像廷巴克图
who find it difficult to get educational materials

他们可能在当地大学
from the local university or whatever,

不容易得到这样的教育资源
can watch certain lectures from Yale on the web.

他们就可以到耶鲁网站观看这些视频
Some of you would have been in classes that do that before.

有些同学可能之前参加过这种课程
What's going to different about this class is that

这门课的不同之处在于
you're going to be participating in it.

大家都要参与到课程中来
The way we teach this class is we're going to play games,

课堂上我们通过做游戏来博弈