Free College Courses

fizzeksman

23rd December 2007 - 06:52 AM

Some of you may be interested to know that many courses offered at MIT are available for free online. The courses come with course material, lecture videos, diagrams, and references. No credit is offered for the courses, and no access to the faculty is provided... still.. quite a lot for FREE! This is a really great opportunity for anyone interested in furthering their education!

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone!

Jack

BigDumbWeirdo

23rd December 2007 - 03:56 PM

Damn fine link, there. Probably the best link I've seen provided on this site.

paul h

23rd December 2007 - 06:45 PM

A great step for self education. Who cares if they don't give a degree.
(that would be nice but)

fizzeksman

2nd January 2008 - 05:24 AM

The opencourseware program, first initiated by MIT in 2001, now numbers around two thousand college courses, available free, to anyone with internet access. This fantastic idea for making education from a prestigious educational institution free to anyone wishing to learn is rapidly spreading around the world.

Over a hundred universities and technical schools now offer similar opencourseware programs. "iTunes U" hosts material from twenty eight colleges. UC Berkley is making courses available on "YouTube".

Among the many schools offering online access to free college courses are:

MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Notre Dame
UC Berkley
UC Irvine
Utah State
Johns Hopkins
Tufts Univ.
Waseda Univ.
Osaka Univ.
Tokyo Inst. of Technology
TU Delft
University of Southern Queensland
International Institute of Management

Never before in the history of mankind has such quality education, been available to so many people, for so little. MIT is to be commended for leading the way with this wonderful program!

Jack

inQZtive

12th January 2008 - 09:27 PM

fizzeksman,

I totally agree. I have been using the MIT video lectures and course work for about a year. It´s great.

Cecil P Abstract

16th January 2008 - 08:01 PM

QUOTE (inQZtive+Jan 12 2008, 09:27 PM)

fizzeksman,

I totally agree. I have been using the MIT video lectures and course work for about a year. It´s great.

MIT? ..... From the ultra-vacuous diseased material you define as personal posts, the acronym "MIT" most certainly equates to: Moronic Inane Tripe.

Idiot!

Gehn

16th January 2008 - 08:26 PM

QUOTE (inQZtive+Jan 12 2008, 09:27 PM)

fizzeksman,

I totally agree. I have been using the MIT video lectures and course work for about a year. It´s great.

That's not a good sign

Thanks for the great link, fizzeksman!

- Gehn

tikay

17th January 2008 - 08:57 PM

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=095393D5B42B2266

Thanks for the berkeley youtube referance as well....I am a very visual person and I think this is more up my alley....than some of the MIT stuff.

I liked that too though!

your a great help!

El_Machinae

18th January 2008 - 05:38 PM

I have personally made use of:
UC Berkeley podcasts
UC Berkeley video courses
Virginia Tech podcasts
Much MIT
UCSD video presentations

They have really helped out my ongoing education.

yor_on

7th April 2008 - 09:09 PM

This is a cool link Jack.
And good for all interested in physics.

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