MIT's OpenCourseWare

[elemenohpee]

for any of you interested in learning on your own, MIT offers almost half of their courses online free of charge. You can get lecture notes, assignments. you don;t have access to the faculty and you dont get credit or anything, but its a good source of information

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

 

[dm3]

big up

 

[sexyanon2]

=] thanks. i forgot about these.

 

[futura]

Holy shit, this is great!

 

[PGTips]

Some of the maths lectures have videos of the lectures! Obviously maths lectures are never exciting at the best of times, but still very impressive, particularly given their free availability!

 

[fizzygirl]

This is so awesome!

 

[Pct]

good stuff

 

[elemenohpee]

bump

 

[deeph]

wow good find mate, thanks

 

[DG]

yea they advertise that locally. i have never taken advantage of it, i really should

 

[elemenohpee]

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[TheLoveBandit]

One...last...bump

 

[RedLeader]

I actually had a course in undergrad that blatently borrowed from one of MIT's courses via this. I mean, we were to listen to a set of lectures, read the lecture notes, our homework problems were their interactive drills, etc. It was presented very well and I highly suggest these for self-study, even if they are a bit on the hard side. The computer science ones are particularly good.

However, I felt kind of weird in my situation since I was being made to do MIT-level work at a non-MIT school

 

[helium-4]

awesome!!! I've been meaning to get a head start on organic chem, and this will be extremely helpful!!!

 

[Schwein]

What's also cool is finding the course reading materials for cheap on all the used online book stores. That with lecture notes makes this very handy indeed.

 

[Mariposa]

This is too awesome! I'm not as yet able to afford to go back to school even with the government's help, so I think this summer I may "take" some courses through here.

Some that look particularly good to me:

Drugs, Politics & Culture

Competitive Decision-Making & Negotiation

Psycholinguistics

Entrepreneurial Marketing

If others would like to "take" any of these as well, it'd be fun to start a study group!

 

[RedLeader]

^ I like the idea (psycholinguistics sounds particularly interesting). I fear I wouldn't have the time right now to dedicate to such an effort, though, despite it sounding fun.

If you throw such an idea around BL, though, I bet you could find enough people to build a study group for one of those couses.

I'll give you one guess as to which one that would be

 

[skoat]

I totally have the free time for this. I wonder how difficult it is to teach myself organic chemistry. I should probably just start with chemistry first.

This is going to take a while...:D