rainheart

I personally believe this thread right here should be made sticky.

For the information of all knowledge enthusiasts and alike, MIT is offering open course ware, which is basically a project they've undertaken that gives free access to a large portion of their course materials.

And here it is.

maddemon802

I Can't believe no one has responded to this! thanks so much for sharing that link. I'm sure it is going to prove a great resource.
maddemon
ps...second the move to sticky this!

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kickaaaaaaaaass

sticky sticky.

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inkriminator

This is an amazing resource in certain areas. This is a brilliant idea, and I hope more universities decide to do something like this.

SiN

Excellent stickyThread

i've known about this site for almost since its very beginning...
...and recently, i've always been meaning to post it here, but kept forgetting. glad to see it here finally.

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CSflim

Looks pretty damn cool! Going to get a lot of use out of this I imagine!
Cheers rainheart.

p.s. the reason people mightn't be clicking this thread is the title. I didn't have a clue what "MIT OpenCourseWare" was, so I didn't think the thread would be of interest to me)

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orphen

nice. i gotta check it out

Force 10

Wow, interesting concept. I like it. Thanks tons for the post!

KellyC

real nice. don't have time for it tho.

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onionmon

I like this site! There is also something like this at Berkeley, webcasts of some of the courses ranging from 2001. Very knowledgeable if u have the time.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/schedule.html

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onionmon

Sry for new message, but whats sticky?

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tecoyah

Was wondering if Halx and tfp would be willing to allow a few course discussions to take place on this forum, as the MIT courseware would be wonderful in a group environment. This could eventually consume quite a bit of resourses though....so I figured I would ask first.

Anyone interested?or should we run a poll?

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hiredgun

tecoyah, i would definitely be up for it.

tecoyah

What courses are you into, and where do we go from here?

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goateebird

Man, this is going to be absolutely indespensible for my next paper, whatever that may be. Thanks for posting this!

stoned_river

why the fuck isnt this more widely known. Oh yeah, my college is lame.

gibingus

this is supremely cool. it would rival sliced bread, however, if there was some kind of audio or video streaming of lecutres.

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losthellhound

Thank you very much. Ive always thought this would be an amazing idea for a University or College

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1337haxor

WOW!
I am a freshman right now and this may prove very useful for everything! Especially next year when I start my hardcore science courses.

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charlesesl

I read about this on WIRED. And man, did it save my Linear Algerbra.

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iccky

I would definitly be interested. i always wanted to look into an econ class (though I realize that might not be the most popular ), bu i'm open to suggestions. I don't think it would really eat up that many resources, just a bit a spirited discussion between a few people, not much more then usually goes on here. .

Seer666

Wow, those are some GREAT links. I am going ot have to share them with some friends out here. Thanks much.

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Rodney

It seems to be up to the individual professors. I found one course in which about a third of lectures were available on audio, and others where there wasn't much more available than the syllabus, study questions, reading lists, and some lists of key concepts.

DE7

i know a lot of the material is up to individual professors; however, some of the progress in posting things online is hampered by the need to have the correct copyright acknowledgments on everything, etc. only a few lectures are actually recorded on video, and for most of those i think you need MIT web certificates. there's still a lot of good stuff that doesn't require certificates on many of the class websites, however.

another good resource is http://mitworld.mit.edu/
basically a compilation of video lectures that have been given here, either on special occasions or the weekly colloquia, some good stuff there

Requium

This is great.

This is like instead of going to college teach yourself !
The ADHD way!

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twotimesadingo

Holy shit, this is amazing. Most of the courses I myself am interested in seem to have little material, but when I eventually psych myself up for some physics and coourses outside my discipline, this will come in more than handy. Thanks a bunch!

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darwiniggy

It's amazing that MIT is offering so much knowledge for free! I'm definitely going to be checking out this resource over the next few months. Thanks, rainheart!

Helpher811

Great! No if only I could find these textbooks scanned in.... maybe kazaa...

maybe not...

Thanks for the post.

fuqnbastard

for those who speak german, the multimedia server of the university of Tübingen: http://timms.uni-tuebingen.de/

medical stuff: http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp
I start to love those guys, heard they also were involved in leading scientists pleading for openly accessable scientific literature

special events at princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/special/
lectures at princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/

ethics: http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/

Delirious

This makes me wish I had 48 hours in a day.

moonchild

Thax a lot rainheart ... it is really an amazing post ...

tarvuz

I like the potential. I do hope they see the response as motivation to increase materials available.

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chromanin

Fantastic initiative.

clarksditch

late reply, but damn... endless possibilities. GREAT FIND!

xepherys

This should help in my pre-back-to-college prep. Astrophysics is not for the weak of heart... I need to polish up my math skills hard core!

dontmisspel

good thread very informative, knew about the opencourseware but didn't know about online lectures

Dilbert1234567

great find, thanks for sharing

now i to can be an expert in plasma transport theory!

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mcchots

Thanks for the link.
Maybe I might learn something now

eyeronic

That is excellent. The literature section was sort of useless, but the list of Spanish language resources was fantastic. Thanks a million.

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roderickpsu

One reason it wouldn't be useful for TOO MANY universities to do this is so that the caliber of the resources are kept as high as possible...i.e., MIT.