Many academics make lecture notes available for free all around the world. Some students write up notes and post them also. In all you already have a huge volume of lecture notes by eminent academics on all sorts of subjects. Seven courses put up by Yale university is hardly a significant event.
What is new though is video material. This will be a great help to aspiring students who are not able to read.
Videos of lectures, course materials, interactive helps, textbooks, journals -- all should be available online by now, fully tested and creditworthy. I'm happy somebody thought this was a good idea, I'm only sorry it is so limited. The funds being used for this seems too high a price for 7 courses, but we shall see. Hopefully the production values will be encouraging to professors, and also hopefully this small start will blossum. Earning multiple Ph.D.'s should be the norm, and it will be some day. Sooner rather than later, I hope.
Yours in service,
"Good Will Hunting" aka Bubba Nicholson Tampa, FL 33629
We already have enough courses that don't offer credit
What we really need are quality online courses that offer legitimate credits for our time and participation. I suppose it might have some small value to do a comparitive study of a Yale course and one I was taking from my home college, but it would be far more useful to have courses that offer at least professional development credits for our state education agencies. By the way, if you are going to tell us about something like this, the least you could do is offer a link to the site!
I welcome this initiative at Yale and other universities. For those who want to learn something not for the sake of degree but personal curiousity, free online instructional materials are certainly a huge plus.
Berkeley is another school whose videos I use all the time: <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/" target="_newWindow">http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/</a>
MIT has quite a few classes online as well, unfortunately not much in terms of videos: <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html" target="_newWindow">http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html</a>
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What is new though is video material. This will be a great help to aspiring students who are not able to read.
textbooks, journals -- all should be available online by now,
fully tested and creditworthy. I'm happy somebody thought this
was a good idea, I'm only sorry it is so limited. The funds being
used for this seems too high a price for 7 courses, but we shall
see. Hopefully the production values will be encouraging to
professors, and also hopefully this small start will blossum.
Earning multiple Ph.D.'s should be the norm, and it will be some
day. Sooner rather than later, I hope.
Yours in service,
"Good Will Hunting" aka Bubba Nicholson
Tampa, FL 33629
Berkeley is another school whose videos I use all the time: <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/" target="_newWindow">http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/</a>
MIT has quite a few classes online as well, unfortunately not much in terms of videos: <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html" target="_newWindow">http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html</a>