Open Courseware is awesome. I've been downloading various courses for the last half a year or so. I definitely approve.

/tn.

Why are all these courses out of date?
Are they still good???

I could use some schooling for work.

I'm not sure how to get the audio courses too work...any help would be appreciated.

Yale has a similar program. They even stick webcams in for the lectures.

The catch is you can spend all of your time attending the lectures, reading the material and doing the coursework but you can't get credit.
It's great for the pompous underachiever to make him feel superior to his friends and family.

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Yale has a similar program. They even stick webcams in for the lectures.

The catch is you can spend all of your time attending the lectures, reading the material and doing the coursework but you can't get credit.
It's great for the pompous underachiever to make him feel superior to his friends and family.

Do you happen to have some links handy? I'll look on yale.edu and see what I find, but it sounds interesting

I went to Berkeley, which is not as good as MIT, but a pretty good school nevertheless. While many of my professors at Berkeley were among the best researchers in their field, they were often lousy teachers. This is not to say that there were no good lecturers, but rather one would be shocked at how many bad teacherss you would find at a supposedly good school. Many professors had a disdain for teaching undergraduates because they felt it distracted them from their research and consultancies.

I would imagine MIT would be similar to Berkeley. Both schools' faculties consist of the top researchers in their field. Both schools' faculties focus on reasearch and consultancies and view undergraduate education as an afterthought. That being said, if you want to watch a real good college lecture, I would not expect to find it at MIT. I might loook towards a school whose faculty puts more focus on undergraduate education.

mmm, pretty interesting, i'm looking into the learning japanese one right now.
and theres a lot of engineering ones but its pretty outdated
so that doesnt really help me much