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I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by ktharavaad »

To get the most out of these lectures, you really have to do all the problem sets and carefully read all the notes and material. Simply just watching the lectures is not enough unless you just want a very rough overview of the topic.

It will be really great if someone made a forum/website where people could interact with each other about a particular course and ask questions and have discussions regarding certain topics.

Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by dreish »

kaiser wrote: post #3

Although it is great to have lectures, slides etc. online (check also the Open Course Ware initiative from MIT), it is still a difference if you are just listening to the lectures or if you can really interact with the people attending. Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures. Still great complimentary resources ... (also for lecturers).

If only there were some way for people around the world to communicate with each other as they watched these lectures ...

Not trying to be snarky. I just wonder whether there's an opportunity there.

Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by netcan »

kaiser wrote: post #3

Although it is great to have lectures, slides etc. online (check also the Open Course Ware initiative from MIT), it is still a difference if you are just listening to the lectures or if you can really interact with the people attending. Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures. Still great complimentary resources ... (also for lecturers).

>Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures.

I disagree. Education is about acquiring skills & knowledge. Lectures, interactions, books, tutors, classmates.. these are the way education is delivered. Maybe university experience is "more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures," but saying that about education as a whole sounds a lot like saying news is about printing.

Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by azharcs »

This is one of the best thing that happened to me this year. Also it would be great if these videos were also available through torrents. Lots of people can't streamline videos due to slow internet connection and constant disconnections and these videos are pretty huge(It is taking me 4 hours to download a single 400MB video) But again just a thought, Thanks Academic Earth for such a wonderful website.

Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by aneesh »

dreish wrote: post #13
kaiser wrote: post #3

Although it is great to have lectures, slides etc. online (check also the Open Course Ware initiative from MIT), it is still a difference if you are just listening to the lectures or if you can really interact with the people attending. Education is more about interaction and struggling for ideas than it is about listening to lectures. Still great complimentary resources ... (also for lecturers).

If only there were some way for people around the world to communicate with each other as they watched these lectures ... Not trying to be snarky. I just wonder whether there's an opportunity there.

Omnisio-style comments overlayed on the video itself would be a start, especially if you could control whose comments were displayed.

Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard

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Post by kleevr »

azharcs wrote: post #15

This is one of the best thing that happened to me this year. Also it would be great if these videos were also available through torrents. Lots of people can't streamline videos due to slow internet connection and constant disconnections and these videos are pretty huge(It is taking me 4 hours to download a single 400MB video) But again just a thought, Thanks Academic Earth for such a wonderful website.

If they started to support torrents, they could slap an RSS feed on it and you could pull them into Miro.
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