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Re:MIT Free Courses by Tycho on Monday June 07, 2010 @07:52PM (#1412481)
Incredible. I think I'll start with this one http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... The notes were typed up by students of the class, as part of some obligation/requirement, apparently. Not sure if that applies to the other courses. So much stuff on there to learn, it'd make you weep.
Re:MIT Free Courses by iworkforthem on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @01:21PM (#1414562)
Love the MIT free courses, really learnt a lot from all these materials. I know for sure, I could never get admitted to MIT CS program. Now I just hope all the rest of the top 10 uni does the same too.. Education should be FREE for everyone.
Re:MIT Free Courses by JoshCole on Monday June 07, 2010 @10:06PM (#1412759)
Are there any sites to let people collaborate while working through these courses?
Re:MIT Free Courses by riffer on Monday June 07, 2010 @11:05PM (#1412854)
I don't think there are sites that do this currently, but the idea is definitely in the air, so there are probably guys working on it. For example, it seemed something like 3 of the 5 guys from the Google IO VC panel from late last week talked about wanting to fund collaborative educational startups.

EDIT: This is the panel I was talking about ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405320

Re:MIT Free Courses by ericwu01 on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @03:11AM (#1413258)
Unclasses.com allows people passionate about learning to connect. Not sure if anyone has started an MIT thread, but that might be a community of learners that would be interested in collaborating together.
Re:MIT Free Courses by theboos on Monday June 07, 2010 @02:16PM (#1411266)
I really enjoyed the EECS courses available there.