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MIT Open Courseware - Free Lectures

39 points by macco 17y ago

bgurupra 17y ago
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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm 2) National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning ->http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd 3) Google Tech Talks -> http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks
- andr 17y ago
  http://AcademicEarth.com http://AcademicEarth.com is also great
  - ray_wang 17y ago
    I really love their entrepreneurship talks but they are way too short. I wish someone would upload an entire entrepreneurship class.
  - artagnon 17y ago
    I like the lectures on philosophy. Most of the computer science talks are too basic.
- macco 17y ago
  Yeah your right, I did wonder that it was not mentioned before. Cool to read about other ways of learning. Thanks for sharing
- dylanz 17y ago
  http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.khanacademy.org/
- samdk 17y ago
  Stanford has some engineering/comp sci courses available here: http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx Berkeley has a lot of lectures available online here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php There's also a lot available in Apple's iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/ http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/), although it will require iTunes to be installed to access.
- eas 17y ago
  http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
I've thought about aggregating all online conference talks, keynotes, workshop,etc videos into one site. Would this be useful to everyone here?
- weaksauce 17y ago
  Yes. I would want a site that is better than a basic categorized list. You can have some kind of filtering and recommendation system for content that is interesting to you based on the tagging information and tracking of other people that have similar interests(think netflix). Ideally you should be able to create some kind of playlist of things that you would like to see and add it to that. The site should also track progress. Good luck though, I think it would be a welcome addition to the web.
  - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
    I'd probably start really simple at first with just organizing the content, which is a big step all by itself. The point would be to get something out that's useful to people. I'd certainly add playlists, favorites, etc. soon thereafter though.
    - santry 17y ago
      I started down a similar path about 4 years ago with some partners and we created e3f, "education for everyone, everywhere — for free" (http://e3f.com http://e3f.com). We were doing it as a side project, and each of us ended up going in a different direction and the project languished. Would love to talk ideas for starting it up again.
      - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
        this is really interesting. my hypothesis is this: the resources to learn anything you want, literally anything, exist online. in some cases too many resources exist ie- learn php or rails. Someone needs to organize those sources and the best ones. I was thinking maybe you organize topics into "virtual syllabuses". So say you wanted to learn web dev, you would go to this link for intro to everything, these set of links for RoR stuff, these set of links for mysql, etc. Also keep a list of blogs to continually read to stay up to date. saw youre a bc alum. what year? drop me an email, would love to talk more: j@jasonlbaptiste.com
stse 17y ago
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.

39 points by macco 17y ago

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 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm 2) National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning ->http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd 3) Google Tech Talks -> http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks

andr 17y ago
http://AcademicEarth.com http://AcademicEarth.com is also great
- ray_wang 17y ago
  I really love their entrepreneurship talks but they are way too short. I wish someone would upload an entire entrepreneurship class.
- artagnon 17y ago
  I like the lectures on philosophy. Most of the computer science talks are too basic.
macco 17y ago
Yeah your right, I did wonder that it was not mentioned before. Cool to read about other ways of learning. Thanks for sharing
dylanz 17y ago
http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.khanacademy.org/
samdk 17y ago
Stanford has some engineering/comp sci courses available here: http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx Berkeley has a lot of lectures available online here: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php There's also a lot available in Apple's iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/ http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/), although it will require iTunes to be installed to access.
eas 17y ago
http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html http://www.openculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

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

weaksauce 17y ago
Yes. I would want a site that is better than a basic categorized list. You can have some kind of filtering and recommendation system for content that is interesting to you based on the tagging information and tracking of other people that have similar interests(think netflix). Ideally you should be able to create some kind of playlist of things that you would like to see and add it to that. The site should also track progress. Good luck though, I think it would be a welcome addition to the web.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  I'd probably start really simple at first with just organizing the content, which is a big step all by itself. The point would be to get something out that's useful to people. I'd certainly add playlists, favorites, etc. soon thereafter though.
  - santry 17y ago
    I started down a similar path about 4 years ago with some partners and we created e3f, "education for everyone, everywhere — for free" (http://e3f.com http://e3f.com). We were doing it as a side project, and each of us ended up going in a different direction and the project languished. Would love to talk ideas for starting it up again.
    - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
      this is really interesting. my hypothesis is this: the resources to learn anything you want, literally anything, exist online. in some cases too many resources exist ie- learn php or rails. Someone needs to organize those sources and the best ones. I was thinking maybe you organize topics into "virtual syllabuses". So say you wanted to learn web dev, you would go to this link for intro to everything, these set of links for RoR stuff, these set of links for mysql, etc. Also keep a list of blogs to continually read to stay up to date. saw youre a bc alum. what year? drop me an email, would love to talk more: j@jasonlbaptiste.com

stse 17y ago

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.