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I don't understand what's so interesting about MIT's linear algebra course... It seems pretty standard. Penn State and Pitt's cover the exact same course materi

• catzaa 17y ago
  > I don't understand what's so interesting about MIT's linear algebra course The lectures are free to download (which is awesome to 3rd world folks like me :) )
• davidblair 17y ago
  What I find awesome is people taking otherwise abandoned knowledge and breathing life into it again. It doesn't matters whether it is CMU, MIT, or De Anza College. The sharing of experience and thought is something we need more of. I guess I would call it organic learning communities. And as momentum grows, these learning communities will change the way we think about education. For me, it's an amazing opportunity to have a structure course presented after completing university. As an undergraduate, I never got the mathematics education that I now want. When I watch one of these courses I actually download the syllabus and go through a class as if I were a student. I find that doing this really helps me get through the materials and complete the course. The thing I like about MIT OpenCourseWear (OCW) is how complete the courses are. You can generally find all the related materials on the OCW website. A number of schools (Berkeley, UCLA) will post videos but fail to include documents that were passed out in class. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing everyone pickup a handout but not being able to get your hands on it.