Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is one of the top academic institutions in the world. How about learning what MIT students are learning but for free?
MIT’s open source project called OpenCourseWare was setup to provide MIT’s lectures for free. Currently there are about 1,900 courses available on the portal. Lectures contain all the necessary files and some of the lectures include audio and video content. It will be like distance learning, you just sit at home and watch the lectures of MIT on your PC. If you are a good self-learner, you can benefit a lot from this portal.
I am particularly interested in the Sloan School of Managment section which covers topics like Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy etc.
There are many other universities that have similar programs like MIT’s OCW; Yale, Berkeley, Tufts, Stanford etc. But I see that MIT has the most complete archive of their lectures online.
So, enjoy the free education!
Website: http://ocw.mit.edu
What a brilliant resource. My friend is at MIT – now I can get an idea of what he’s learning there! I guess you can learn lots of things without ACTUALLY going to a learning institution – the wonders of the internet
Distant education is a great idea
This is a great resource. I also noticed in iTunes that there are a number of other top colleges that have made their lectures available for free download.
Here are some more free academic podcasts: http://www.productivity501.com/free-academic-podcasts/78/
as long as it free, nothing wrong if we give a try. hoho!
Its very useful who are working and can’t complete their studies regularly.
Finaly! Took them long enough. You’d expect an university like that to be more up to date on this stuff – open source can be as efficient as any commercial application without costing a penny.
I also noticed in iTunes that there are a number of other top colleges that have made their lectures available for free download.
Wow this is damn cool.. I can be a MIT student too?
This is a great idea, but don’t think you can get all the knowledge you would if you were a student of MIT, there is a lot to be said for how the lectures are given too.
All i gotta say is this is great news around the web MIT is the best ever!
This definitely is a great resource for students, and I can see some real value here for myself too. It is a pity that one still has to pay to write the exams though!
Now I have more sources for the analysis, MIT is one of the best source now it is free that make me very happy.
Wow, this is a great news. I guess well have to expect more inventions from regular people after this MIT open source opening.
Good news, now you can listen to lectures without leaving home. That’s just fine.
The lectures is just super, everyone will find something for yourself..
Great spot, will definitely look into this resource, tahnks for sharing it.