Free Online Video Education from Top Universities 43
pkrumins writes "Over the past few years, some of the world's top universities have started offering free video recordings of their lectures.
Being a student, I have enjoyed them and collected them in my bookmarks — until recently I talked to few people, and they did not know about it! So I decided to create a blog about free video education online. I am mostly focusing on physics, mathematics and computer science video lectures."
Good news kinda (Score:1)
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Re:Good news kinda (Score:3, Insightful)
Human Physiology? (Score:2)
Re:Human Physiology? (Score:5, Funny)
I can give you links to some very comprehensive Human Anatomy demonstrations...
They're not exactly in a laboratory environment, though.
Re:Human Physiology? (Score:1)
Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology [teach12.com]
I've listened to lectures from the teaching company. They're very good. The only question I'd have is at what level are these lectures being presented. Usually, these courses are introductory or of a survey nature at best.
Also, these courses are free as well:
an introductory anatomy class from Berkeley [berkeley.edu]
video lectures from "The neuronal basis of conciousness" course at Caltech [caltech.edu]
I know this may
Re:Only applies to those who care. (Score:2)
Re:Only applies to those who care. (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree with you the time to soak up knowledge from books was also very
Re:Only applies to those who care. (Score:2)
I'm not syaing lectures are useless- I'm saying video lectures only help a subset of learners. I'd rather have an onli
Re:Only applies to those who care. (Score:1)
Algebra (Score:1)
Re:Algebra (Score:2)
Re:Algebra (Score:1)
Missing In-Class Learning (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Missing In Class-Our special time. (Score:2)
There remains a problem- the vast majority of lecture time was wasted because of 1 person who was slower on the uptake than the majority of the class. A "no questions" policy is overkill, but by and large any question that takes over 30 seconds to answer and/or has already been
Re:Missing In-Class Learning (Score:2)
On the flip side, I've seen teachers/professors completely skip over things inadvertantly, and it's to the detriment of the class if nobody speaks up. Also some professors just do a terrible job of explaining things.
All things considered, I think encouraging questions is probably the lesser of two evils, and the curricula of most classes factors in some amount of time for
Lecturers Aren't Perfect (Score:2)
Assuming a perfect lecturer.
I've had plenty of profs skip important points they 'just knew', forget lines from their notes, and even be completely wrong. It's useful for the class to respectfully engage in these cases.
I understand about the student who completely missed the last 5 minutes for whatever reason, and a good lecturer will know to when to defer that until later. He'll also adapt the lecture based on the questions
Why a blog? (Score:5, Insightful)
The Berkeley CS61 lectures are available as free podcasts on iTMS, by the way.
Re:Why a blog? (Score:2)
Re:Why a blog? (Score:1)
Re:Why a blog? (Score:2)
Though it sucks when search engines don't index and list them with regular sites.
Interesting concept (Score:2)
Re:Interesting concept (Score:3, Informative)
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When I visited wikibooks for the first and last time, I was completely turned off by the absolutely laughable and bizarre topics of the books (and the fact that most of them seemed to have been started as wishe
Online Bookmarking vs. Single Blog (Score:1)
Not the full experience.. (Score:3, Funny)
Neuroscience/Consciousness lectures (Score:5, Insightful)
awesome (Score:5, Interesting)
I expect that the mass, nearly-free communication from the Internet will significantly shift our assumptions about education and the ages at which people get different levels of training.
Right now, people are kept out of the professional workplace as long as possible and it has been increasing over time (subtle pressures to reduce competition from young people mostly drives this). more degrees, etc mean you are 22-25 ish before you are treated as "acceptible" in the professional workplace. This is completely ABSURD biologically, where one can compete as an adult (strictly biologically) at about age 16-18. Most primiltive humans had "adluthood" rituals even younger.
With widely available content, advanced degrees will mean less - I mean if you can walk into an engineering firm at age 17 and have taken and understood all the MIT classes on structural engineering - OF COURSE they will hire you in a second. They would pay you less maybe than a EE major, but who cares, the 17 yo will do it in a second. This is mirrored in current higher education and funding too. Most professors are more multidisciplinary (belonging to mutliple depts.) and funding is becoming more collaborative (like the NIH roadmap). THe result is lower importance on specific disciplines.
For my own kids, the world will change so much by the time they will be ready for college, I'm not really thinking the same rules will apply to them when they get to be 17 or 18.
We'll see....
Re:awesome (Score:1)
Do you have? (Score:1)
More math videos (Score:1)
Good resource (Score:2)
Content (Score:1)