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Free courses on all sorts. I'm definitely doing some of these:

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This place offers free courses, where you watch lecture videos, then complete quizzes. I'm a bit late for the Drugs and the brain course: https://www.coursera.org/course/drugsandbrain I will, however, be doing several of the other courses - like the ADHD one, and some of the neuroscience ones. Well impressed with it all.
 
Interesting! Psychopharmacology is a field I'm greatly interested in and it's good to see the whole "free course" movement extending outside of technology & engineering. I've already signed up for Medical Neuroscience,

I see a whole new generation of ADDers on the horizon. :D
 
CourseRA is excellent, I've done that Fundamentals of Pharmacology course with them, and a couple of others. You really do learn a lot, and the courses are run by some big names in their field.
 
Just go to the MIT website, they became one of the first Uni's to make a lot of their courses open to all online.
1800 courses :)

You dont get the flashy certificate at the end of the courses, BUT you do get to save the $42 Grand a year on tuition :)
Plus its fuckin MIT so you know their professors know their shit , its not like your local 28 year old guy from some glorified polytechnic who is teaching you, these are world renowned teachers

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
 
Speaking of great lectures
Fora.tv just posted a great Oliver Sacks lecture on Hallucinogens :)



Summary
In the first installment of the World Science Festival's new series, Science & Story, famed neurologist Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry to discuss Sacks' latest book, which explores the surreal world of hallucinations.



http://fora.tv/2012/11/09/Hallucinations_with_Oliver_Sacks
 
i am taking this course as well! except i feel like i'm in over head but it's such an amazing resource. i thought it's free so i have nothing to lose.
 
Treacle said:
This place offers free courses, where you watch lecture videos, then complete quizzes. I'm a bit late for the Drugs and the brain course: https://www.coursera.org/course/drugsandbrain I will, however, be doing several of the other courses - like the ADHD one, and some of the neuroscience ones. Well impressed with it all.
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Those pics were from Decmber 2012. Why publicise it now that its all over.
 
Fantastic, cheers. Just signed up for the Philosophy, Astrobiology and Organic chemistry courses starting on the 28th Jan. The only problem I can see is that I'm on the dole and looking for work at the moment, this is gonna make me even less motivated to find a job. Oh well..8)
 
Awesome site, thanks so much for posting.

You don't appear to get a recognised qualification for completing the course, which is a bit of a bummer, but it will still assist in any study/career development.
 
Nice find, Treac :)

Have gotten quite into watching lectures on PooToob and the like of late (as TLM mentions there are some properly impressive-sounding ones available from Harvard and so on posted in full and for nowt). Couldn't give a toss about getting a piece of paper at the end of it. Qualifications mean fuck all - is the actual knowledge that's the important bit. Perhaps not entirely true if you're wanting to be a doctor or lawyer or summat as they tend to be sticklers for bits of paper but for those that enjoy learning stuff for the sake of learning stuff the intranetz really can come into its own. I just wish I had the dedication to be a bit more focussed rather than flitting about a bit but rarely sticking to an entire series of lectures from beginning to end. Is all out there for the taking now though so maybe when I grow up a bit 8)

In related news, an EADDer said he's gonna send me the textbooks he got from doing an OU course last year and the login details so I can follow along with the extra online resources. Again no bit of paper at the end of it but that's hardly the point. Suspect it would do me the world of good to get back into educamacating meself in more structured form again so should be fun. Will try to check out that site cos it sounds great... but as it involves signing up to follow along at a specified time it may not quite work for me yet. Am working up to that form and structure stuff ;)

One of the aforementioned courses from a "proper" university (Yale) that I've had me eye on for a while now: Frontiers - Controversies in Astrophysics. Great value for money - full 24 lectures for the price of the internetz you're already using. Is aimed at folk who don't have any particular science background but have an interest apparently (ie no indecipherable equations or long division or owt ;)). Sounds right up my alley and will get around to it eventually.

And if that topic doesn't do it for ya then the site it's taken from is well worth a lil looksee anyway. Has fuckloads of lectures and talks on a whole range of topics - mostly just one-off hour-long jobbies but a few series of uni lectures too. A few that'll be somewhat impenetrable for the non-specialist (try as I might I struggle with some of Roger Penrose's stuff (try this one to see what I mean :D) but he's such a lovely auld fella to listen to and his oldskool hand-drawn transparencies are far more artistic than any of that PowerPoint shite so will struggle on and maybe get there in the end. There's loads of more immediately and obviously entertaining stuff on there to suit all tastes though.

Knowledge is power and all that so go learn summat you didn't know yesterday :)
 
It can go on your CV, which is one excellent point of this. I'm more bothered about actually learning the stuff, however.
 
I recently found out you can put any old shite on your CV. As proven by the fact I now have a CV (written by an employment support agency) with no apparent gaps despite last working in the early-mid 90s and most of my life being one big morass of addiction, homelessness and general mess. Fuck knows how folk get away with it. But if this is what a CV is then what the fuck is the point of 'em? They're clearly utter bullshit from beginning to end. I'd not trust anybody who employed me off the back of a CV now I've seen what they actually are :\
 
Shambles said:
I recently found out you can put any old shite on your CV. As proven by the fact I now have a CV (written by an employment support agency) with no apparent gaps despite last working in the early-mid 90s and most of my life being one big morass of addiction, homelessness and general mess. Fuck knows how folk get away with it. But if this is what a CV is then what the fuck is the point of 'em? They're clearly utter bullshit from beginning to end. I'd not trust anybody who employed me off the back of a CV now I've seen what they actually are :\
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Didn't you realise that 'Curriculum Vitae' is Latin for 'Bag o' shite?' ;)
 
Experience is worth more than a CV. By fucking miles. Doesn't matter if you have a degree in being the most talented person, ever. If you've done a few years of 'practical', you're worth more. Sorry, I mean, keep going to school/college/uni, kids!
 
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