MIT Education for Free...
Posted on: May 9, 2007 - 4:29pm
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MIT Education for Free...
Well, sorta. I invite anyone to take a look at MIT's OCW, OpenCourseWare, where they have course notes, syllabi, assignments and exams, for almost every single class they offer.
The real beauty, however, is in the courses that have video lectures. Ever want to learn about mechanics, electromagnetism, solid state chemistry, differential equations, computer systems engineering, etc. from an MIT professor? This is your chance. 
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Explaining the universe by invoking god is like solving an equation by multiplying both sides with infinity. It gives you a trivial solution and wipes away any real information about the original problem.
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I have been visiting that site for over a year reading and learning. Great post.
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Berkeley lecture series: Psych 119 - Drugs and Behavior:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978365
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wow! Thank you so much for posting this gnophilist
wow, amazing information here, i will def. get as much as i can out of this thanks for the post!
This is awesome. All education should be available for free like this.
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I couldn't agree more. It would lead to improvement of eduation as well... more users of the material make for more feedback.
Those who know the good, do the good. - Socrates
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Holy fuck, I can't believe how much is here on this site. Is anyone here going to try and go through a course? Maybe a few of us might go through the same one, and compare notes?
Those who know the good, do the good. - Socrates
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I would but I'm a junior EE taking 16credit hours next semester.
Two classes have labs :S.
I'm really interested in some of their philosophy classes, though.
They might inspire me to dig up some reading I have negleted.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell.
I sit through this at university, do you think I want to do it in my spare time? Grant MIT is better than the one I go to. >_>
You're not thinking, you're merely being logical -Neils Bohr to Einstein
I have used MIT OCW as a guide to set up independent study classes. I was able to get credit but I had to pay the fees at my university.
Other students I know have even used the video lectures in their curriculum proposals to the school to get credit.
Atheist, Skeptic, Microbiologist
I'm attending a university in Germany right now and the MIT courses have been very helpful from time to time. Its surprising, for me at least, how clearly the professors bring their classes across. When I think of MIT, I imagine hours after a class trying to make sense of it all; but that isn't the case.
I would also recommend the UC Berkeley webcast courses. There seem to be many more webcasts there as by the MIT site.
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