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MIT puts all courses online, free of charge
Just saw this today.
Quote:MIT to put its entire curriculum online free of charge
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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.
Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that 17% were educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were self learners.
Source: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showA...=198000598
All you can learn, for free. Just download the courses. Such a deal!
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I got nothin'.
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That's kickass 
/goes to find the psychology section, only to discover it's all in mp3 format and is going to be a bitch to download over GPRS. 
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^^Oh you poor thing. Time to move into the city.
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You obviously need to go to the spelling/grammar section.
And the use too big a vocabulary for the titles. Where the fuck is art? Art art, not theatre art or music.
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uughuuguhgugh... knowledge... *drools*
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Yay! Learn me!
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omg yous is alls a buhnch off reaturdses 
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nooo! ur teh retardasaurus!
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SoulRiser Wrote:omg yous is alls a buhnch off reaturdses
noo, ur teh reeeitrdeeedssss!
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duy duy DUUUUUHH!
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Re: MIT puts all courses online, free of charge
Doc Johnson Wrote:Just saw this today.
Quote:MIT to put its entire curriculum online free of charge
W. David Gardner
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.
Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that 17% were educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were self learners.
Source: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showA...=198000598
All you can learn, for free. Just download the courses. Such a deal!
Go here to view the courses:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
That's all fine and dandy, but natural learning/unschooling is the best thing that happened since sliced bread   !
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Shinzo Wrote:That's all fine and dandy, but natural learning/unschooling is the best thing that happened since sliced bread !
I kinda think that existed before sliced bread, but anyway.... 
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Shinzo Wrote:That's all fine and dandy, but natural learning/unschooling is the best thing that happened since sliced bread !
... do you know what unschooling is? It isn't a method it's a philosophy. You can unschool by going to university. You can unschool by going to a public school. Unschooling is just self directed learning. Basically a person learns based on what they want to learn and how they want to learn. I understand universities and public schools are undemocratic right now but in principle you can unschool there.
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Lots of thing existed before sliced bread. e.g unsliced bread. But whoever it was that decided to get that knife and slice off that slice ... pure genius. I bet they didnt learn that in no evil school.
but seriously these online courses are they like the full course, or are they like a watered down version? and i went to that mit one, the downloads are full huge. What is like video or something?
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The contents varies, likely dependent on the laziness factor of the professor. Some courses have a book list, questions, and a notes. Others have audio and video recordings of lectures.
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do you reckon you could teach yourself how to do brain surgery?
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no! i was just wondering about all this talk of home schooling and self learning ... how far do you think you could take it? Whats the extreme you could go to as far as teaching yourself how to do shit.
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I wouldn't claim that everything can be learned by oneself. Like I said in a previous post, "unschooling is just self directed learning." If you want to be a brain surgeon then you use that self direction to learn what you need to. It is extremely likely that you will go to medical school.
The limit to what can be self learned is dependent on how much you can practice practical skills. I can become a mathematician by reading books and practicing because all I need is a bunch of paper, a pencil, and a shitload of questions to do. I can't become a carpenter at home because I don't have a proper space to do carpentry. If I had a garage I could become handy with woodworking.
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the open course stuff is awesome, it's a shame that no one will employ you or recognize your skills until you spend $40k + in university to get some piece of paper.
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STOP BUMPING
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You have to remember that you are not getting the entire course for free. Books can be gotten for free or very cheaply but there still is the lack of a teacher. Teachers are very important in certain disciplines, as long as the person teaching you is good at it. For example, my social sciences teacher last year was completely useless. She didn't teach me anything beyond what I could have learnt by just reading through a textbook. She also kept on repeating completely false urban rumours such as the stretched "necks" of the Padaung.
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Say that when your average post is more intelligent than the post you just replied to.
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i think that if you want somebody to talk with about a subject you should just do that, get a discussion group going. that is if you don't want a teacher.
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