Would you like to get smart cheaply? You can now “attend: selected courses at prestigious college courses for free, while sitting at your computer. The participating universities include MIT, Yale, McGill and UC-Berkeley. This is a great opportunity if you’d like to get serious about the topics of the selected courses. The participating colleges videotaped some of their courses and made them available to the general public by posting them online.
I checked out five of these videos. I found that the audio and video are quite good and the teachers really know their stuff.
MIT is a leading sponsor of open courseware, and puts handouts for 1800 of its courses online for free, in addition to the video lectures. See http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm….
The main goal of the program is to help educators in developing countries gain access to educational materials they would otherwise not have, but helping to educate motivated individuals in developed countries is a useful secondary benefit.
Grumpy: If you want only the audio and video courses at MIT, you can go here: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.ht….
For the full listing at MIT, you can go here: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/ind…
Free courses at MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/index.htm