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Ask HN: What is your online university curriculum?
Universities are offering many fascinating lectures to the public - some with lecture notes and literature curriculum, some merely video. I'm sure we all remember how hard just finding and bookmarking all these resources was - and perhaps still is.
When sites like Academic Earth began to collate the lectures, things got much easier. Now, the predicament seems to be that of resource overflow; we now need a filter to sift the hour-long lecture series to benefit from them. We are in a position where the same topics are covered by different lecturers at different universities with different curricula. As someone who's never set a foot in the US and an intermediate knowledge of my subject of college education, I don't know who's hot and who's not, but, being enrolled at a very meagre university with not improvement in sight, I'm interested in taking a digital tour of academia on the other side of the Atlantic.
Therefore, I'd love to elicit some hacker help to assemble something resembling of a curriculum. If I were to lock myself in my flat for weeks to study a subject, what would the curriculum be? I know many lectures can also be regarded as the flavour of the day: shared e-mail links, reddits, StumbleUpon links, and so forth. I, on the other hand, and from what I've surmised from frequenting HN, is that the future of online education looks more and more attractive, as Khan Academy gains recognition, and the inflationary college price keeps soaring.
I don't want to restrict the recommendations to CS, Engineering, and Maths; feel free to construct a curriculum however you want, as your experience and knowledge allows you to, as long as you can vouch for it as a serious curriculum. You could also create a broader, Brownian curriculum that includes all kinds of subjects in order to create a wholesome body of knowledge.
I don't know what the best way to structure the curriculum is, but one way would be your usual Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced; another would be Undergrad and Grad.
I hope we can avoid a big discussion about the validity of a Business education vis-à-vis a foray into the start-up world.
I'm not looking at locking myself in and getting an online education, so this isn't as much of a request as an enthused challenge to see what we are capable of with what is currently available. The potential has me very excited.