Posted on 05/21/2008 5:11:50 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Hey! Let’s all go to MIT!
I should have gone to MIT. OK, I shouldn’t have done the pub crawl the night before the SAT’s…and I might have focused on my grades a little more. But never mind that. Our time has come.
MIT is now free and many of its lectures are on the internet.
Well, sort of.
Check out this link to OpenCourseWare.com. I listened to two physics lectures last week (video lectures) by Professor Walter Lewin. Here’s the link to Prof Lewin’s first lecture (LINK HERE)…I even understood what he was saying.
Friends of mine will remember when I argued that MIT (and other top schools) professors were really not better than those at Jackson Hole Community College and Ski School. Well, I was wrong. You’ll understand what I mean when you listen to and watch Professor Lewin’s lectures. Yes, professors can be geniuses at merely communicating…and Prof Lewin is a genius!
This is a hot new movement.
No, you can’t get a degree…yet. But you can’t listen to lectures and read lecture notes for TOP SCHOOL’s around the world.
Check it out.
BTW, my cats are going to attend the Harvard School of Felinity. (Hey, if Michelle Obama got a degree at Princeton in “Ethnic” Studies, how can Harvard deny my cats their dreams?
iTunes has had this for about a year as well.
That’s what I have heard!
One can only imagine where this might fit into “home schooling.”
I wish I were a six year old!
SirKit plans to download a Physics course for our son to do. They talk together about Physics ALL the time, so I’m sure it will be a great course for our son.
It is pretty amazing stuff. Best of luck to you and your son!
It will be great for homeschoolers! It could be considered a ‘self-designed’ course for schools like North Atlantic Regional School which allow families to make up their own courses for high school. As long as you can provide ‘proof’ that the student has spent the requisite amount of time, in the form of a log of time spent on the course, and there is some physical evidence of the coursework, high school credit will be given for it.
bfl
If you have iTunes on your computer, look up “iTunes U” in the iTunes store and have a ball.
Harvard’s Extension School also posts material on iTunes:
http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/
And on their website:
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2007-08/courses/syllabi/spring.jsp
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2007-08/courses/syllabi/fall.jsp
Some of the course links just go to an outline. Others go to a website with handouts and readings.
My cats and I thank you!!!
See you on the quad! ;-)
Dang! What could cut into my Freeping more than a course in physics from MIT?
‘scuze me, but I gotta go “caption” a couple more Hilary threads.
A year ago, I watched intro biology lectures from MIT on streaming video. Taught by world-famous biologists. It was completely amazing—totally lucid and fascinating.
Obama says “change” but he is so far behind the times.
Change is coming...but it is the Truth (not Alinsky Marxism) Obama is one day late and one dollar short!
Buh! Bye! Barry!
Hey, this is cool! Thanks for posting! Now I have something to do when I’m not chasing a two year old or feeding a baby...
I wish I can study in MIT, but my gre and tofel...they’re not good enough, what a shame
Reminder bump! ;-)
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