MIT's OpenCourseWare

[xenu]

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

stumbled across this a few days ago, and decided to share. basically, anything MIT does you can download the course material here and learn to your heart's content. anything from aeronautics to writing.

been flipping through their programming courses, brilliant stuff.

 

[MrIndigo]

It's not as good as you might think initially - there's generally little in the way of actual teaching, and more "Here are the notes, bye."

 

[scizayox]

Way cool, Xenu. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Eraddd]

It's not as good as you might think initially - there's generally little in the way of actual teaching, and more "Here are the notes, bye."

For courses that have online videos of lectures, they're pretty useful. One particular professor whom I liked was Walter Lewin. Those videos were useful for me especially when I had absolute plugs for professors.

The assignments are also good supplementary assignments for practice for midterms, as most of the questions will either be harder, or on par with the questions most do in today's curriculum, especially some of the stuff I've seen in the Physics and Organic Chemistry section.

I wouldn't recommend trying to learn the course by yourself by using this. I would rather use this as an alternate resource, an enhancement of sorts, for courses you're taking currently.

 

[monkfish]

might take a look at the programming stuff, been missing my academic education since i left uni last year

 

[Ulquiorra]

I would definitely agree with Eraddd. MIT's OCW is really helpful in reviewing material. But it should not be used to teach you the material. It is helpful to learn it in lecture, review it in recitation, and if you're still lost, you can always turn to OCW. But OCW is only for a few classes and not all classes offered at MIT. =/

 

[capefeather]

You also can't exactly go to these profs' office hours. I gather it's good for a quick "second reading" of material, though, like others have said.