MIT Open Courseware - Free Lectures

by macco on 12/27/2009, 12:25 PM with 18 comments
  • by bgurupra on 12/27/2009, 2:17 PM

    Actually MIT's OCW is pretty popular and many people know about it, but I am sure there are other sites as well which have quality tech education type material, some of the links I use below, What other links do HNers have?Please pass along here and everybody could gain from that

    1) MIT -> http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

    2) National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning ->http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd

    3) Google Tech Talks -> http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks

  • by jasonlbaptiste on 12/27/2009, 4:25 PM

    I've thought about aggregating all online conference talks, keynotes, workshop,etc videos into one site. Would this be useful to everyone here?

  • by stse on 12/27/2009, 11:39 PM

    I like this trend, but I have some reservations about the usefulness of the material. It's not generally suited for self studies, as it's made for a full time student and while the lectures and notes are open, the course ware isn't. As far as I know there's no easy way to take an exam or get a grade. It also seems hard for other teachers to use, as it doesn't contain any instructions from that perspective.

    So while I like the initiative, I currently can't see any widespread usage for it and think it needs to evolve to become "truly" open.