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Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities

#31
too many ads on this page, and the links go to more pages with ads and mostly to a website that only has "samples" of the courses for free

a repository of free online courses would be great, but despite the good intentions, this site is not it

Unfortunately, the promise of free online university courses is a thing of a the past. EDX and Coursera got bought out and are now money-making online ed sites.

Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same in India, this is the first time I am seeing this on Internet Archive

Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities

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post #4

There 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.

This is just an excuse for not learning and getting it done. You do have a way to upload to your brain, it is just a slow bandwidth connection that takes time. If you don't have time you have to make time by not reading the news, not reading social media, not watching stupid videos.

Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities

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post #6

The 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.

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Re: 1,700 free online courses from top universities

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post #5

https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category

When you say they didn't work, what does that mean? Opened 10-20 and they all opened as a PDF or a webpage(albeit some don't have HTTPS certificates).

I got 404s on some, and then one I recall was a 1-page PDF that had links to buy off amazon >_<
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