Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Study for Free

From wiki
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from MIT's undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, free and openly available to anyone, anywhere, by the year 2007. MIT OpenCourseWare can be considered a large-scale, web-based publication of MIT course materials. The project was announced in 2001. As of August 2005, 1435 courses are available online. While a few of these are limited to chronological reading lists and discussion topics, a majority provide homework problems and exams (often with solutions) and lecture notes. Some courses also include interactive web demonstrations in Java or Matlab, complete textbooks written by MIT professors, and even streaming video lectures.
What a great initiative. Definitely something to check out, although at this moment my own studies take up more than enough of my time. Their Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences section looks pretty good though.

6 comments:

annom said...

Definitely a great initiative. The problem is that you still need all the books. It's the same as our Blackboard, but open for everyone.

annom said...

I just checked the Dynamics and Aerodynamics exams from the Aeronautics and Astronautics bachelor. I always thought MIT was uber 1337, but I can(NOT easily) make those exams with my Delft knowledge.

It probably is hard to get in, but the courses aren't as difficult as I thought they would be.

Kamiel said...

yeah MIT nice for some sunday coarses but thats it.

annom said...

lol

cybrbeast said...

They do have some courses that don't require books. Courses with only lectures, or courses where the prof. has written the textbook.

annom said...

kewl!