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1,700 free online courses from top universities
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Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#12How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.
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#13There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.
The book Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is helpful. tl;dr of it is: - lots of low-stakes quizzing and practice - spaced repetition - reflect on what you've learned and what you could do better next time, and apply these lessons in different contexts - interleave practice of different but related topics - try to solve a problem before being taught the solution - distill the underlying principles to diff…
All these things presume actual interest and savviness about the topic present in the student beforehand, which is precisely what most students that struggle with studies lack.
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#14The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#15There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.
Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment
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#16I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#17The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
They are available on archive.org - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ITunes_U
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
They are available on archive.org - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ITunes_U
Thanks. Stanford's archive seems to be one big 296.2G blob. But it's there at least.
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#19I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
Search for "computer science". I found several CS50...
Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are available on archive.org - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ITunes_U
Thanks. Stanford's archive seems to be one big 296.2G blob. But it's there at least. https://archive.org/details/stanford_itunesu/
Maybe it's because I'm in the US, but all of those files have been blacklisted for download.