This is pretty cool:
MIT to put its entire curriculum online free of charge:
On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the university’s entire 1,800-course curriculum by year’s end. Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums available online to date.
I was actually accepted to MIT but chose to go to UCLA instead – better weather, closer to home. So now I can find out what I was missing…
I take it this doesn’t mean you can actually obtain a degree by just reading the courseware, though!
Okay, that’s incredible. Is the degree as important as the knowledge? I have a PhD, but so do several hundred thousand other Americans. I’ll definitely download it. Something to read when I’m in a nursing home hooked to a cyborg nurse someday.
OFF TOPIC:
U(you) C(see) Lotsa Asians there, too, but my worst two memories of UCLA was when Troy Aikman strode onto the Cotton Bowl field in 1989? and whipped Arkansas all day. And the second was the ’95 NCAA final? when UCLA also whomped the Razorbacks. Ah well, at least it wasn’t USC, and the Bruins have great school colors.
some of the courses have great material posted. some have handwritten class notes from a student — great notes, for sure, but just notes. and some are incomplete — for instance http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-462JSpring-2006/LectureNotes/index.htm has just half the lectures. this is a great great resource but it is still pretty spotty.