College classes free, for anyone
If you’d like to attend college classes over the Internet at a wide variety of prestigious colleges, consider visiting Academic Earth. According to the about page,
We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
The participating universities include Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, and Yale. I just finished watching an informative lecture on “The Origins of the Financial Mess.” I’m wondering what I’m going to view next. Maybe I’ll watch some more of Shelly Kagan’s 26-part series on the topic of “Death.”
Money magazine has a short piece on this in its latest edition.
Is this legit? Right now I’m working hard to go back to an actual college later in 2010, so a good re-primer would be excellent.
Mobius: You can “attend” real classes at this site (they are videotaped, not live), but you won’t receive credit. It would be as if you were auditing the classes. Good luck with the re-primer.
Thought so. Thanks Erich, great find.
Another website where you can get a free top-rate education in many subjects: http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/04/would-you-like-to-go-to-a-good-college-for-free/