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MIT OpenCourseWare

242 points by gjvc 5y ago

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hardwaresofton 5y ago
The original SICP course is up on OCW, watched it years ago and it was a treat: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... The link says 2005 but don't worry, it is 100% not from 2005, as the video production, hair styles, and general demeanor of people in the video will attest. > These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television. These videos are also available here under a Creative Commons license compatible with commercial use.
- arvindamirtaa 5y ago
  OCW tends to everything about the course, except the video lectures. I've seen so many courses with newer course-dates but the lectures alone are from older editions of the same course.
  - swiley 5y ago
    They really don't need to re-do the lectures every year, you only need them once. What's kind of sad are the upper level/graduate courses with no lectures, or the ones that have lectures cut out for IP reasons.
    - bluGill 5y ago
      Why are they redoing the rest of the course then? If the only change is the date then things are fine. However research does move on, if they need to redo the course materials for any reason that needs to include the lectures.
      - PennRobotics 5y ago
        It still takes time and money to record videos or collect assignments and ensure legal compliance, privacy, accessibility, etc. which often utilizes student labor, where there's an opportunity cost. That is, students, professors, and everyone in-between could be frying bigger fish. If a course is teaching computer architecture and switches from a hypothetical instruction set to RISC-V, the core of the instruction hasn't changed---memory layout, instruction ordering, digital system concepts. (The nice thing, Silvina Hanono Wachman uploads a privately recorded version of each semester of the computer architecture class, so we get the classic Chris Terman instruction as well as the modern variant.) With that in mind, some classes will have a higher relevance churn rate than others and should be updated more often. Other classes might have historically had an amazing instructor and no major development and thus need a really compelling reason to be replaced. (MIT's Introductory Physics comes to mind.)
        owl57 5y ago
        > Other classes might have historically had an amazing instructor and no major development and thus need a really compelling reason to be replaced. SICP occupies an interesting place in this space: computer programs definitely had quite a bit of development, but Abelson and Sussman are amazing and their perspective remains valuable. Haven't seen that computer architecture course, you seem to suggest it may be another of this kind?
        PennRobotics 5y ago
        There is a newer SICP (2004) at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BcsI5ueSNFPCEisbaoQ0kXIDX9rR5FF https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BcsI5ueSNFPCEisbaoQ... The architecture course is 6.004, although it is a bit different than Abelson/Sussman. Abelson focuses heavily on software concepts while 6.004 has a strong hardware bent.
- gjvc 5y ago
  Hal Abelson was also one of the leaders of the MIT OCW initiative. (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k8o7zkA1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k8o7zkA1o)
gjvc 5y ago
Such an amazing resource.
Sr_developer 5y ago
This is still by far the best resource of what has sadly become a money-grabbing fad. PDFs of the full lectures, labs,quizzes, also videos. The same material the kids at MIT take. No bullshit,no signing up needed, no irrelevant 'degrees' (Mini-nano-pico specialization) for 2000 USD, no worthless certificates, no cumbersome "learning systems" splitting a 45 min lecture in 30 micro-videos with inane and obtrusive questions in the middle. Since it is so useful and it doesnt make anybody rich, naturally it needs to die.
lenkite 5y ago
The material at https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/ https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/ appears a bit more up2date.
- PennRobotics 5y ago
  True, but incomplete. Filtering just EE/CS, there are 30 or 35 courses with full video lectures on ocw.mit.edu (which are all hosted on Youtube AFAIK). OLL seems to have four. Sometimes lectures are linked on a class website e.g. the modern Underactuated Robotics lectures: https://underactuated.mit.edu/ https://underactuated.mit.edu/ If you're going down the rabbit hole, search "site:https://video.odl.mit.edu/collections/ https://video.odl.mit.edu/collections/" or videolectures.net or archive.org, or you can search MIT's student pages for class assignments. Honestly, this is the only way to find substantial info on some entire fields e.g. Thermal-Fluids Engineering (2.005 and 2.006) ... or Course 2, in general. It helps to learn a specific school's curriculum (Stanford and Berkeley also have great resources) and target specific courses. You won't find lectures such as MIT's Inference course by looking on Youtube and OCW alone. [Not just replying to parent comment] If you plan to teach, sample some lectures by Patrick Winston, Anant Agarwal, Donald Sadoway, robert ghrist, and/or David Malan. The modern approach to engineering instruction seems to be 5 to 15 minute snippets posted online, but these five are among my favorite when it comes to full lectures.
  - bordercases 5y ago
    Nice touch keeping Ghrist's name, lowercase.
bnajdecki 5y ago
Now, I know what I'll be doing during summer :D
kumarvvr 5y ago
I fondly remember learning about OCW for the first time, about 10ish years ago. As a fresh engineer in India, on the cusp of just moving to cheap broadband, at blazing speeds of 5 mbps, I was giddy with excitement of learning from the same lectures an MIT student gets to learn. While I did not learn much, in terms of actual syllabus, I did get exposed to a refreshing teaching style of exploratory learning. It helped me learn how to learn, how to approach a subject or problem, how to be confident as a learner. I have never looked back. Today, I am confident that I can learn any subject, with the right books and practice. That confidence helped me grow as an engineer in my job. Even today, I view these courses and new ones all the time. An added side effect was the opening up of learning resources from Stanford, Yale, etc.
- brainless 5y ago
  I can totally relate to this and remember the first OCW. Also from India, I always feel that the web of that era pushed a lot with regards to making an open, knowledge sharing platform. I remember walking into random rooms on Freenode from MIT (I think) and seeing well known people/professors in there. It was such an inspiration to keep learning.
- linux_devil 5y ago
  Agree and I would like to echo you. I feel I owe so much to OCW , fundamentals and concepts helped me through early career here in India.
- _e 5y ago
  Coursera's Learning to Learn class by Barbara Oakley and her book "Mind for Numbers" [0] really changed my life. Can you point to specific courses and or books, from MIT's OpenCourseWare, that helped you become a confident learner? [0] https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/ https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/
  - kumarvvr 5y ago
    I saw a lot of Physics lectures from Walter Lewin. A lot of computer science lectures in the CS & EE category. Don't remember the names of lecturers, but almost all of the lectures have a very good flow.
zant 5y ago
In my personal experience, I find extremely difficult to stick with the courses that are mostly video based. Not just from OCW but Coursera, edX, etc. But what I found is that, for me, a really good way to start learning a new subject is studying from Lecture Notes. These are generally less dense and more tractable than a whole textbook, and at the same time, you get the written form which I find a bit easier to follow than multiple hours of video. Of course you miss the depth in some cases, but as introductory content I find them really to the point and easing the learning curve.
- UnpossibleJim 5y ago
  I've found that if there's a project at the end (like in Free Code Camp (I think one or all of those may be a single word), I tend to do much better. Not only does it help me cement things into my brain, but it motivates me to keep going. Not to mention, the learning I get from the videos is OK, but the real learning comes from what I look up to solve the practical.
- xmprt 5y ago
  My issue with lecture notes has been that I always read through them too quickly to grasp the material. On the other hand, videos seem perfectly paced for me or I can change the speed and rewatch things that don't make sense. There's an aspect of change over time that you get which isn't that easy to show on paper. It helps me better relate one concept to the next.
orzig 5y ago
Reminds me of the education blogger who did the whole MIT CS curriculum in 12 months: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/ https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
- midwestemo 5y ago
  He has a whole video series detailing each week on YouTube https://youtu.be/vmM75fYviLY https://youtu.be/vmM75fYviLY
TobySKT 5y ago
Learn how to build a telemedicine app by looking at the market, development process, examples, challenges, and costs https://steelkiwi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-doctor-on-demand-app/ https://steelkiwi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-doctor-on-demand-a...
forinti 5y ago
It is just a fantastic opportunity to watch Prof. Gilbert Strang's lectures. I just wish I had had access to this when I was in college.
- andrewlgood 5y ago
  Let me start by saying I love OCW. It allows a connection to MIT far beyond simply donating money each year. As an alum of MIT, I find it interesting that the OCW video lectures are generally much better than what I recall the actual classes to be. I am not sure if this is because some classes had multiple instructors and only the best are presented on OCW and/or the Professors and students are especially good for OCW because they know they are being recorded.
gumby 5y ago
About a decade ago I needed to know thermo ... a subject I had really disliked as an undergraduate. So I went to OCW and read what seemed to be the same course I’d taken when I was in school. I skipped the lectures, but the course materials were vastly superior to what we’d had. Really glad mit does this.
wirthjason 5y ago
All of these materials are great but they are no substitute for in-person instruction and feedback (I don’t mean sitting in a lecture hall watching a professor scribble on the blackboard for an hour). The real value of a professor is that because they know the material they can see the gap in your knowledge, where you’re making the mistake, and quickly get you over the hurdle. This is hard to do when learning by yourself because if you had the knowledge you wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the first place. I wish there were better communities around learning. Discussion bards, forums, etc. have been terrible substitutes in my opinion for in-person learning. Often a big part of my learning comes from helping and discussing the problems with classmates. I’ve learned as much from my peers as I have from professors.
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- crispyambulance 5y ago
  There's relatively new instructional strategy called the "inverted classroom" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom). It's where students read texts and watch online lectures by master instructors, but then go to in-person classrooms to work on problems and get tutoring with individual attention, and the opportunity to interact with other students. The advantage is that students get really comprehensive exposure to the material. First from a formal lecture and then from in-classroom attention with questions and practice. It's sort of like standard college lectures and recitations with TA's except there's more emphasis on the recitations and the lectures are from really excellent instructors.
  - sidr 5y ago
    This is just a rebranding/reinvention of the tutorial system at Oxbridge, so not really that new.
    - wirthjason 5y ago
      I’m not familiar with it. Do you have more details on how the system works? Was it happening pre-YouTube-ization of education?
wly_cdgr 5y ago
A flawed but wonderful resource. Reminds me of the early days of film, before directors understood that film was its own thing with its own affordances, not recorded theater Still great, though. The format may be ill-fitted to the medium, but any content from people of Strang's human caliber is a rare treat
- ghaff 5y ago
  OCW is really a mix of different things. It was originally pitched as bundles of resources that teachers could use to assemble courses based on an MIT curriculum. Pre-MOOC (and pre-ubiquitous video), it was not really intended to be packaged courses for a student to use directly. There were doubtless some political reasons for the original positioning, but in any case it means OCW courses are a bit of a mixed bag depending upon what someone is looking for.
akshaykumar90 5y ago
I want to call out the Introduction to Algorithms [0] course which was the gateway drug into the online courses for me back in ~2009. I learnt CS from this and other open courses from MIT and Berkeley and would forever be grateful for these resources. [0]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/index.htm https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
pdevr 5y ago
What's the best non-monetary way to give back to the MIT OCW program?
- andrewlgood 5y ago
  They actually have a page on the site for this - https://ocw.mit.edu/give/other-ways-to-contribute/ https://ocw.mit.edu/give/other-ways-to-contribute/ Nothing exciting. Send them feedback on how OCW made a difference in your life and spread the word.
gjvc 5y ago
"Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required." In this day and age, when some sites want you to register for the most inconsequential of services / downloads, this really is a breath of fresh air.
Hadriel 5y ago
How has this evolved over the years?
- ghaff 5y ago
  The main thing is that, in many cases, it's evolved from mostly being whatever raw materials (syllabus, lecture notes, pointers to resources like textbooks) could be pulled together to often being closer to a course in a box more akin to a MOOC. As I mentioned in another comment it was originally pitched as a resource for would be teachers rather than for students directly.
WalterBright 5y ago
Many, many times I wished someone had had the foresight to record (only audio was practical at the time) the lectures I had in college.
ChrisArchitect 5y ago
something from this site gets posted almost every single month on here, anything new from this share?
machinehermiter 5y ago
My fav is anything with Seth Lloyd. He is straight out of central casting for a MIT professor. So great, so nerdy, so interesting.
templarchamp 5y ago
OCW - deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for democratizing education planet scale.

242 points by gjvc 5y ago

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The original SICP course is up on OCW, watched it years ago and it was a treat: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... The link says 2005 but don't worry, it is 100% not from 2005, as the video production, hair styles, and general demeanor of people in the video will attest. > These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television. These videos are also available here under a Creative Commons license compatible with commercial use.

arvindamirtaa 5y ago
OCW tends to everything about the course, except the video lectures. I've seen so many courses with newer course-dates but the lectures alone are from older editions of the same course.
- swiley 5y ago
  They really don't need to re-do the lectures every year, you only need them once. What's kind of sad are the upper level/graduate courses with no lectures, or the ones that have lectures cut out for IP reasons.
  - bluGill 5y ago
    Why are they redoing the rest of the course then? If the only change is the date then things are fine. However research does move on, if they need to redo the course materials for any reason that needs to include the lectures.
    - PennRobotics 5y ago
      It still takes time and money to record videos or collect assignments and ensure legal compliance, privacy, accessibility, etc. which often utilizes student labor, where there's an opportunity cost. That is, students, professors, and everyone in-between could be frying bigger fish. If a course is teaching computer architecture and switches from a hypothetical instruction set to RISC-V, the core of the instruction hasn't changed---memory layout, instruction ordering, digital system concepts. (The nice thing, Silvina Hanono Wachman uploads a privately recorded version of each semester of the computer architecture class, so we get the classic Chris Terman instruction as well as the modern variant.) With that in mind, some classes will have a higher relevance churn rate than others and should be updated more often. Other classes might have historically had an amazing instructor and no major development and thus need a really compelling reason to be replaced. (MIT's Introductory Physics comes to mind.)
      - owl57 5y ago
        > Other classes might have historically had an amazing instructor and no major development and thus need a really compelling reason to be replaced. SICP occupies an interesting place in this space: computer programs definitely had quite a bit of development, but Abelson and Sussman are amazing and their perspective remains valuable. Haven't seen that computer architecture course, you seem to suggest it may be another of this kind?
        PennRobotics 5y ago
        There is a newer SICP (2004) at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BcsI5ueSNFPCEisbaoQ0kXIDX9rR5FF https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BcsI5ueSNFPCEisbaoQ... The architecture course is 6.004, although it is a bit different than Abelson/Sussman. Abelson focuses heavily on software concepts while 6.004 has a strong hardware bent.
gjvc 5y ago
Hal Abelson was also one of the leaders of the MIT OCW initiative. (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k8o7zkA1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k8o7zkA1o)

gjvc 5y ago

Such an amazing resource.

Sr_developer 5y ago

This is still by far the best resource of what has sadly become a money-grabbing fad. PDFs of the full lectures, labs,quizzes, also videos. The same material the kids at MIT take. No bullshit,no signing up needed, no irrelevant 'degrees' (Mini-nano-pico specialization) for 2000 USD, no worthless certificates, no cumbersome "learning systems" splitting a 45 min lecture in 30 micro-videos with inane and obtrusive questions in the middle. Since it is so useful and it doesnt make anybody rich, naturally it needs to die.

lenkite 5y ago

The material at https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/ https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/ appears a bit more up2date.

PennRobotics 5y ago
True, but incomplete. Filtering just EE/CS, there are 30 or 35 courses with full video lectures on ocw.mit.edu (which are all hosted on Youtube AFAIK). OLL seems to have four. Sometimes lectures are linked on a class website e.g. the modern Underactuated Robotics lectures: https://underactuated.mit.edu/ https://underactuated.mit.edu/ If you're going down the rabbit hole, search "site:https://video.odl.mit.edu/collections/ https://video.odl.mit.edu/collections/" or videolectures.net or archive.org, or you can search MIT's student pages for class assignments. Honestly, this is the only way to find substantial info on some entire fields e.g. Thermal-Fluids Engineering (2.005 and 2.006) ... or Course 2, in general. It helps to learn a specific school's curriculum (Stanford and Berkeley also have great resources) and target specific courses. You won't find lectures such as MIT's Inference course by looking on Youtube and OCW alone. [Not just replying to parent comment] If you plan to teach, sample some lectures by Patrick Winston, Anant Agarwal, Donald Sadoway, robert ghrist, and/or David Malan. The modern approach to engineering instruction seems to be 5 to 15 minute snippets posted online, but these five are among my favorite when it comes to full lectures.
- bordercases 5y ago
  Nice touch keeping Ghrist's name, lowercase.

bnajdecki 5y ago

Now, I know what I'll be doing during summer :D

kumarvvr 5y ago

I fondly remember learning about OCW for the first time, about 10ish years ago. As a fresh engineer in India, on the cusp of just moving to cheap broadband, at blazing speeds of 5 mbps, I was giddy with excitement of learning from the same lectures an MIT student gets to learn. While I did not learn much, in terms of actual syllabus, I did get exposed to a refreshing teaching style of exploratory learning. It helped me learn how to learn, how to approach a subject or problem, how to be confident as a learner. I have never looked back. Today, I am confident that I can learn any subject, with the right books and practice. That confidence helped me grow as an engineer in my job. Even today, I view these courses and new ones all the time. An added side effect was the opening up of learning resources from Stanford, Yale, etc.

brainless 5y ago
I can totally relate to this and remember the first OCW. Also from India, I always feel that the web of that era pushed a lot with regards to making an open, knowledge sharing platform. I remember walking into random rooms on Freenode from MIT (I think) and seeing well known people/professors in there. It was such an inspiration to keep learning.
linux_devil 5y ago
Agree and I would like to echo you. I feel I owe so much to OCW , fundamentals and concepts helped me through early career here in India.
_e 5y ago
Coursera's Learning to Learn class by Barbara Oakley and her book "Mind for Numbers" [0] really changed my life. Can you point to specific courses and or books, from MIT's OpenCourseWare, that helped you become a confident learner? [0] https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/ https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/
- kumarvvr 5y ago
  I saw a lot of Physics lectures from Walter Lewin. A lot of computer science lectures in the CS & EE category. Don't remember the names of lecturers, but almost all of the lectures have a very good flow.

zant 5y ago

In my personal experience, I find extremely difficult to stick with the courses that are mostly video based. Not just from OCW but Coursera, edX, etc. But what I found is that, for me, a really good way to start learning a new subject is studying from Lecture Notes. These are generally less dense and more tractable than a whole textbook, and at the same time, you get the written form which I find a bit easier to follow than multiple hours of video. Of course you miss the depth in some cases, but as introductory content I find them really to the point and easing the learning curve.

UnpossibleJim 5y ago
I've found that if there's a project at the end (like in Free Code Camp (I think one or all of those may be a single word), I tend to do much better. Not only does it help me cement things into my brain, but it motivates me to keep going. Not to mention, the learning I get from the videos is OK, but the real learning comes from what I look up to solve the practical.
xmprt 5y ago
My issue with lecture notes has been that I always read through them too quickly to grasp the material. On the other hand, videos seem perfectly paced for me or I can change the speed and rewatch things that don't make sense. There's an aspect of change over time that you get which isn't that easy to show on paper. It helps me better relate one concept to the next.

orzig 5y ago

Reminds me of the education blogger who did the whole MIT CS curriculum in 12 months: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/ https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

midwestemo 5y ago
He has a whole video series detailing each week on YouTube https://youtu.be/vmM75fYviLY https://youtu.be/vmM75fYviLY

TobySKT 5y ago

Learn how to build a telemedicine app by looking at the market, development process, examples, challenges, and costs https://steelkiwi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-doctor-on-demand-app/ https://steelkiwi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-doctor-on-demand-a...

forinti 5y ago

It is just a fantastic opportunity to watch Prof. Gilbert Strang's lectures. I just wish I had had access to this when I was in college.

andrewlgood 5y ago
Let me start by saying I love OCW. It allows a connection to MIT far beyond simply donating money each year. As an alum of MIT, I find it interesting that the OCW video lectures are generally much better than what I recall the actual classes to be. I am not sure if this is because some classes had multiple instructors and only the best are presented on OCW and/or the Professors and students are especially good for OCW because they know they are being recorded.

gumby 5y ago

About a decade ago I needed to know thermo ... a subject I had really disliked as an undergraduate. So I went to OCW and read what seemed to be the same course I’d taken when I was in school. I skipped the lectures, but the course materials were vastly superior to what we’d had. Really glad mit does this.

wirthjason 5y ago

All of these materials are great but they are no substitute for in-person instruction and feedback (I don’t mean sitting in a lecture hall watching a professor scribble on the blackboard for an hour). The real value of a professor is that because they know the material they can see the gap in your knowledge, where you’re making the mistake, and quickly get you over the hurdle. This is hard to do when learning by yourself because if you had the knowledge you wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the first place. I wish there were better communities around learning. Discussion bards, forums, etc. have been terrible substitutes in my opinion for in-person learning. Often a big part of my learning comes from helping and discussing the problems with classmates. I’ve learned as much from my peers as I have from professors.

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crispyambulance 5y ago
There's relatively new instructional strategy called the "inverted classroom" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom). It's where students read texts and watch online lectures by master instructors, but then go to in-person classrooms to work on problems and get tutoring with individual attention, and the opportunity to interact with other students. The advantage is that students get really comprehensive exposure to the material. First from a formal lecture and then from in-classroom attention with questions and practice. It's sort of like standard college lectures and recitations with TA's except there's more emphasis on the recitations and the lectures are from really excellent instructors.
- sidr 5y ago
  This is just a rebranding/reinvention of the tutorial system at Oxbridge, so not really that new.
  - wirthjason 5y ago
    I’m not familiar with it. Do you have more details on how the system works? Was it happening pre-YouTube-ization of education?

wly_cdgr 5y ago

A flawed but wonderful resource. Reminds me of the early days of film, before directors understood that film was its own thing with its own affordances, not recorded theater Still great, though. The format may be ill-fitted to the medium, but any content from people of Strang's human caliber is a rare treat

ghaff 5y ago
OCW is really a mix of different things. It was originally pitched as bundles of resources that teachers could use to assemble courses based on an MIT curriculum. Pre-MOOC (and pre-ubiquitous video), it was not really intended to be packaged courses for a student to use directly. There were doubtless some political reasons for the original positioning, but in any case it means OCW courses are a bit of a mixed bag depending upon what someone is looking for.

akshaykumar90 5y ago

I want to call out the Introduction to Algorithms [0] course which was the gateway drug into the online courses for me back in ~2009. I learnt CS from this and other open courses from MIT and Berkeley and would forever be grateful for these resources. [0]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/index.htm https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

pdevr 5y ago

What's the best non-monetary way to give back to the MIT OCW program?

andrewlgood 5y ago
They actually have a page on the site for this - https://ocw.mit.edu/give/other-ways-to-contribute/ https://ocw.mit.edu/give/other-ways-to-contribute/ Nothing exciting. Send them feedback on how OCW made a difference in your life and spread the word.

gjvc 5y ago

"Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required." In this day and age, when some sites want you to register for the most inconsequential of services / downloads, this really is a breath of fresh air.

Hadriel 5y ago

How has this evolved over the years?

ghaff 5y ago
The main thing is that, in many cases, it's evolved from mostly being whatever raw materials (syllabus, lecture notes, pointers to resources like textbooks) could be pulled together to often being closer to a course in a box more akin to a MOOC. As I mentioned in another comment it was originally pitched as a resource for would be teachers rather than for students directly.

WalterBright 5y ago

Many, many times I wished someone had had the foresight to record (only audio was practical at the time) the lectures I had in college.

ChrisArchitect 5y ago

something from this site gets posted almost every single month on here, anything new from this share?

machinehermiter 5y ago

My fav is anything with Seth Lloyd. He is straight out of central casting for a MIT professor. So great, so nerdy, so interesting.

templarchamp 5y ago

OCW - deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for democratizing education planet scale.