MIT Courses for FREE

[homeboy]

I used Steve's search engine to find if anyone posted about this and I was SHOCKED... completely shocked that nobody posted about this or that Steve's search engine sucked so bad considering his background in computers! I kid I kid, I know the search engine comes already packaged with the forum and that you(Steve) didn't write everything from scratch. But this is still surprising non-the-less! They announced it back during the summer that they were launching it, but I guess the buzz died out and nobody jumped on the bandwagon since they were just starting to upload their courses.

This means YOU can go to college (minus the physical social interactions) too!! You can learn all types of things online for FREE, absolutely FREE(besides maybe purchasing the textbook)! This is a great chance to see what kinds of topics are offered in college and also get the feeling of how overwhelming it is trying to choose a course. I placed this in Character and Contribution because this will definitely help build yourself and your mind, but feel free to link it in the other thread topics as well. Hit the link and start learning already.

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

[ixmatus]

It doesn't really surprise me all that much...

Plus, their courses aren't free, the recorded lectures of those courses are free.

[m18pak]

The University of Berkeley does the same thing with their classes.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[webwhiting]

Hello,

Thanks for the information. I already started downloading a course and plan to download more. The courses I noticed are from previous semesters and they do ask for a donation.

Infodocktor

[webwhiting]

Hello,

I wanted to know if anyone knew of any organizations that donate to non-profit organizations just starting out?

Infodocktor

[gita]

I had known about MIT OpenCourseWare for more than 3 years now. And I always go there to find out about the area that I am researching/learning about to see what the world's premier institution is teaching in that area. I also find the reading list quite interesting as it takes me to good books in a given area. For instance I have been reading this book called "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, which I later found was a recommended text book in one of the management courses in the Sloan school of management. The reading list for that course took me to more interesting books in that area. And now I am actually following the "Supply Chain Management" course by reading the books that are recommended in the reading list there. Of course, its not the real Sloan experience, but atleast it gives a good idea and some direction on what kind of stuff is actually covered there!

Thanks for bringing it up!

regards,
gita