MIT offering courses online for free

[project dragon]

MIT OCW's goals are to:

-Provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
-Extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept.

So apparently courses at MIT are now being offered online for free. All the courses don't appear to be for current year studies (some off them are course material from 2002, but some are rather current), and you don't get any credit/degree from the school. You also don't get any help from the faculty, so I suppose this is just for your own personal benifit. I haven't tried any of the courses, but if someone has free time on their hands and wants to give it a look-through, tell me how it goes!

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

[Pandagirl!]

That's pretty cool, I'm tempted to actually try it

[404 Not Found]

I think Harvard was doing that too. I saw it on TV sometime in the past year. I think it was on Jimmy Kimmel? Their courses had been set up as a pay as you go, but not college equiv. degree....just a certificate of some sorts.

[Arikel]

Neat!
I guess that's one step forward to help education reach every1, a small one but a step anyway, with each passing day descrimination is more and more based on education and academic degree!

[DoTheFandango]

Here, take this .pdf, decipher what the teacher means, and understand a difficult mathematical concept by re-reading it twenty thousand times.

[Pummel]

Peasants.