Pretty fcking cool. Free courses online from top universities (21)
Pretty fcking cool. Free courses online from top universities
Brush up on your computer science, web design, or business skills with some free online classes from the likes of UPenn, Stanford, Princeton. Thought this was worth a share.
https://www.coursera.org/
And Harvard/MIT are coming out with one that will be up and running this summer
http://www.edxonline.org/
Great tips. Thanks
I use iTunes U a lot on my ipad. There are some great courses on there as well.
Itunes U I didn't know that existed! Thats rad!
Yeah if you have an ipad make sure you download the "iTunes U" app from apple. You can get at the content in iTunes on Windows/Mac but the ipad experience is excellent.
And i think its gonna change education.... Just look at the following from the Apple "Education" event
man this is amazing, I always have to be learning something haha my academic side comes out often! so good man thanks heaps
Apple really is a motherfkn star of a company lol
MIT here: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Pretty cool
Ya Coursera.org is sweet! I took the Computer Science 101 course, didn't finish it unfortunately. Gonna retake it the next time they have it.
Another awesome site that offers FREE education is Udacity.com...They have some open classes. It's freakin awesome.
I took the Class: CS101: Building a Search Engine
And currently taking:
CS212: Design of Computer Programs
CS262: Programming Languages
CS253: Web Application Engineering
Have a lot of catching up to do lol!
this is awesome, just signed up for a couple of courses. Damn I love technology!
Awesome share, thanks!
Who needs a Google Reader with this much knowledge out there?
great topic! I have actually talked about this with my good buddy not a long ago. He is currently doing some course on http://www.udacity.com/ <<---------- free online education courses from a stanford professor, a bit advanced stuff for me but looks really interesting.
anyway when we talked about that there was a conclusion that online education (very often FREE) that is organized and presented in the right way will change whole education system soon(for better!)
awesome! especially for newbie like me
I totally agree with mdmfx(Siema)!
I always believed that the Traditional Educational system would collapse eventually.
Loans are being easily distributed to students who are promised they will have a job waiting for them once they finish their degree, yet it costs an Arm and a Leg to finish one.
Mark Cuban made an excellent post in his blog and here's a little bit of what he talks about:
Love it!
You're pretty naive if you think a degree guarantees you a job, though things to get spun this way by many places/course providers. I don't think universities are going to lose any amount of worth with an advent of open, free courses available to anyone. People can learn a lot for free, and this is fantastic since knowledge is an amazing and powerful thing. However, university issued degrees will always hold more weight in the eyes of an employer, and it will be a long time before free courses, especially those available online, will have significant value in that respect. There are some things which are better suited for this online approach, e.g. programming languages, but not everything can be self-learned easily. A university is an institution of research anyway, teaching/degrees are only one half of it. And unfortunately such research is unlikely to ever be free or able to be performed at home... or online.
I have done a lot of recruiting in the past for the business I was running, and I agree that a "university degree" was a mandatory requirement,
But...
Only to get through the first filter.
After that we never really looked back at someone's education and focussed 120% on their experience and achievements.
The degree was kinda a filter for some basic level qualification. Thats all.
So...
What does this mean for future of universities and learning?
Yes they do a lot of research. But as an institution to develop the required skill set to be successful in your chosen profession?
Im not so sure.
Looking back at myself - I did 2 degrees because when i did the first one i wasnt really sure of what I wanted to do. I also wasted the 1st 3 years of it away because I spent more time drinking and partying then studying.
And of course those are important skills 
But do we need uni to teach them to us?
100% of the things I use today are self taught.
I suppose the actual profession presides over this argument... An internet marketer, graphic designer or chef may use knowledge that is heavily experience driven and benefits less from a degree, compared to say a geologist, attorney or dentist. Some things are more able to be self-taught and you could excel at them through your own prowess, but I wouldn't want to go to a dentist who hasn't been forced through six years of guided study and work placement with qualified professionals.
very valid point!
I've always questioned the logic of the majority of my friends for choosing to go through traditional University on non-specialist courses.
While it's true that some professions require a proper degree and the traditional background, I think many students take on a class that...
a) They're not entirely sure they want to be pursuing for the rest of their life. (In which case, why not take a course later in life when it makes sense?)
b) Probably doesn't need a degree.
Yeah, if you want to become a dentist or a doctor, you can't learn that on a rusty laptop in your basement. But most students I know opt for general hodgepodge degrees... like psychology or business studies. One of my cousins even went to Uni for a make-up and artistry degree. I don't get that at all.
As Tijn said, for most people in most professions, the degree is only relevant as a paper qualification to get you on the ladder. The real challenge begins when you exit the comfort of an education institution and start applying whatever knowledge you have in the real world.
It's the people who recognise that education and self-teaching continues through their entire working lives that end up making the best of their careers. Learning is a lifetime dedication. That's why I love course opportunities like these. They might not count for much on a piece of paper, and they might not attract the pickiest employers (or any at all), but they are great opportunities for self-growth.
^ exactly my thoughts. I would say that 80% of my friends that went to Uni for "non-specialist" courses ended up working in totally different areas (including me!).
It's a more complex problem though and it really depends on the country you are living in/the education structure&quality/the economy situation/unemployment rate/etc. etc.
Yeah a large chunk of people just go because they don't really know what to do and would rather spend a few years partying as students and then get a piece of paper and a loan at the end. Actually I despise all the retards around who make our student body look retarded (e.g. Castle St riots) and our town filthy.
One of the large problems in NZ at the moment is how difficult it can be to find decent jobs in the country that use your qualifications, there was a news piece on it recently. One guy had a double degree in computer science and something, and a girl had a degree in human psychology and one in dietetics (which is a 6 year programme) and neither could find professional work as it was always a need-experience-to-get-job, need-job-to-get-experience catch 22.
Apple is just an Apple 
They know what business is and what people search for.
thanks for sharing dude. But i am tired of these free courses. most of them are nothing but junk 
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