MIT: Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free.

Blue_Chill

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:18 PM
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MIT: Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free.

<snip>When MIT announced to the world in April 2001 that it would be posting the content of some 2,000 classes on the Web, it hoped the program - dubbed OpenCourseWare - would spur a worldwide movement among educators to share knowledge and improve teaching methods. No institution of higher learning had ever proposed anything as revolutionary, or as daunting. MIT would make everything, from video lectures and class notes to tests and course outlines, available to any joker with a browser. The academic world was shocked by MIT's audacity - and skeptical of the experiment. At a time when most enterprises were racing to profit from the Internet and universities were peddling every conceivable variant of distance learning, here was the pinnacle of technology and science education ready to give it away. Not the degrees, which now cost about $41,000 a year, but the content. No registration required.<snip>
source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html

No degree but if you're interested in improving a tech skill or learn something new this could help.

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:20 PM
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1. Isn't this great?

Everyone can get an MIT education for free!

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thom1102

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:20 PM
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2. COOL!!!!

I am in school for a BSED in Physics. I bet this would help! Thanks!!

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CarlBallard

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:20 PM
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3. Wow (n/t)

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ProudGerman

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:22 PM
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4. MIT rocks!!!!

One day, I'll be able to say I'm taking courses at MIT.

I'm gonna have to get a second hard drive to put all the stuff I'm gonna save from MIT.

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Jack The Tab

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:26 PM
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5. Jeebus Keerist - it's about time I read something uplifting...

This is really, really cool and means that our nation hasn't sank so far into the depths...

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Kolesar

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Tue Aug-26-03 03:37 PM
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6. It's about as impersonal as my college education

Where the engineering profs retreated to research facilities miles off campus, and the nervous and inexperienced teaching assistants did all the work.

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liberalpress

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Tue Aug-26-03 04:02 PM
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7. Maybe...

..those who've taken similar courses could volunteer to "grade" quizzes. I mean the best part of learning something is the realization that you've properly understood it. We can never be really sure unless someone takes the time to validate or berate.

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Blue_Chill

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Tue Aug-26-03 05:48 PM
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8. kick

for the late crew

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Bossy Monkey

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Tue Aug-26-03 06:19 PM
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9. "I downloaded MIT on KaZaA!"

Ok, not really. Pretty cool idea.

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