MIT open courseware - very cool
Yesterday I was browsing MIT's open courseware pages:
http://ocw.mit.edu/
The program offers a variety of very high-quality online course materials for undergraduate- and graduate-level classes. In many cases, they also have videos hosted on youtube.
I watched one class on practically solving large sparse linear equations with an introduction to partial differential equations, taught by Gilbert Strang - it was extremely well-taught! If you want to check out Prof Strang's Linear Algebra courses, search for "18.06" on youtube. Here's the first lecture in that series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVMRuLH6FdQ
This stuff strongly suggests that online learning can very well work for more advanced materials. Personally, I'm guessing that a bottleneck for online learning (besides internet access of course) is the maturity of the students, so that online education resources actually become more effective as the intended audience gets older.
http://ocw.mit.edu/
The program offers a variety of very high-quality online course materials for undergraduate- and graduate-level classes. In many cases, they also have videos hosted on youtube.
I watched one class on practically solving large sparse linear equations with an introduction to partial differential equations, taught by Gilbert Strang - it was extremely well-taught! If you want to check out Prof Strang's Linear Algebra courses, search for "18.06" on youtube. Here's the first lecture in that series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVMRuLH6FdQ
This stuff strongly suggests that online learning can very well work for more advanced materials. Personally, I'm guessing that a bottleneck for online learning (besides internet access of course) is the maturity of the students, so that online education resources actually become more effective as the intended audience gets older.
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