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MIT - Access All* Course Material for Free
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dynamike on 12/04/2014 - 11:49 ocw.mit.edu (9083 clicks)
Last edited 16/04/2014 - 18:28

Access all MIT course material for free. The only thing you're not getting is a degree at the end. If you want to get smart but don't need a degree to think you are, this is an invaluable resource to have.

Take any course you want 101 to expert, it's all there.
Want to become a rocket scientist but don't have the $500k to get into MIT, don't worry. You can at least gain the knowledge of a rocket scientist. Whether that will get you to the moon is really up to you I guess.

*please see this comment for more details https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/140218#comment-1935276

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  • pointblank on 12/04/2014 - 11:53
    +8

    Hi dynamike - the MIT courses are really good. I had a quick look at a few myself.
    Another user started a wikipage a while ago on all the institutions that add free courses online.
    Feel free to add to it if you like:
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/wiki/free_online_courses

  • patoruzu on 12/04/2014 - 11:59
    +7

    Great. But this is not a deal, it should go to forums, as it is not something that is only available for a limited time.
    Otherwise someone soon is going to post the deal: "Google.com, search for free websites in the internet" or the like.

  • kronicmacstigator on 12/04/2014 - 14:49

    Well, I eat my words. I might take a browse, don't really need it though.

  • Fobsessive on 12/04/2014 - 15:34

    MOOC's

  • shaybisc on 12/04/2014 - 15:47
    +1

    MIT courses have a reputation for being very difficult- academic rigour and all that. Let us know if it's deserved after you finish one.

    • bargainerftw on 12/04/2014 - 17:12
      +3

      Reading the Syllabus of Japanese I right now because that's what I'm going to study:
      * Three lowest daily scores will be dropped during the term.
      ** One lowest LQ score will be dropped at the end of the term.
      *** Two lowest scores will be dropped at the end of the term.

      Seems like the usual grade inflation coming out of Top American Universities so that all their students graduate with higher GPA's than students from average Universities. You can search many articles on this…Harvard inflates the most.

  • Pacify on 12/04/2014 - 16:02
    +1

    personally, while MIT open course ware mite be the most advanced, I think coursera and edx and the like do it much better, much easier to use, more engaging and very similar to being in an actual real uni unit

  • bargainerftw on 12/04/2014 - 16:14

    Yes!!! MIT Japanese Studies uses the same popular textbook Genki that pretty much most Aussie Uni's like UniMelb/UniAdel etc. use…I already have this textbook and currently studying Japanese already, this free course will help a lot! thanks :)

  • sandsay on 12/04/2014 - 17:14

    MIT is a million better than Melb Uni for sure

  • ahly92 on 12/04/2014 - 17:52
    +5

    physics 8.01 Walter Lewin…He is the BEST lecturer to have lived.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zc9Nuoe2Ow

    • grababargain on 12/04/2014 - 18:25
      +2

      Imo, best Physics Nobel prize lecturer ever - Richard Feynman.
      Will never forget his live simple experiment at the Presidential Rogers Commission for the Challenger disaster.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCLgRyKvfp0

      • syousef on 10/12/2014 - 15:47

        Both these guys rock and they're not the only good lecturers.

        How about Brian Greene of "The Elegant Universe" fame? You can learn Relativity from him at beginner, intermediate or uni course level.

        http://www.worldscienceu.com

        He's also got guest lecturers onboard - courses that will take you only a few hours to complete from Alan Guth (father of inflation cosmology) and Max Tegmark (expert in data analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background)

  • Sage on 12/04/2014 - 19:55

    can you pay for a separate test to get a certificate?

  • JepunK on 13/04/2014 - 00:42

    Thanks Op!…

  • nicksinternet on 13/04/2014 - 07:56
    +1

    MIT quality…… clicked on the MP4 under week 2 of this Scuba course. Fail.

    http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/athletics-physical-education-and-…

  • twocsies on 13/04/2014 - 15:33
    +5

    By the way, it is not all MIT course material. For random example (first I found), 6.857 Computer and Network Security is currently running http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2014/ but is not available on MIT OpenCourseWare. Furthermore, most of the material from computer science courses is around ten years old (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput…). For intro courses, maybe relevant, for SCUBA, maybe relevant, but for graduate CS courses, simply outdated.

    • Abaddon on 14/04/2014 - 10:00

      Aren't most graduate CS courses 10 years behind (industry that is)?

    • tomwood on 14/04/2014 - 20:32

      needs to be added to title and description!

  • sachz on 29/04/2014 - 13:40

    are they still teaming PDP11 at Sydney University engineering labs!?

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