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I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
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Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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…
I semi-agree. I have been an autodidact all of my life, and poor (and occasionally homeless) most of my adult life. I'm still young. I've been learning partially via online video lectures (specifically MIT's OCW) and course materials since they first started popping up a few years ago, and I've learned a great deal - however, I feel that I would have learned much more if I was in a situation where I was always very c…
Doubtless.
Colleges can be very useful. Access to lectures is only one of the ways they do what they do. That particular aspect, well you can do that without them.
I'm not saying this replaces colleges. Just saying that this also helps people become educated.
Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Just nitpicking over the definition of education as gaining knowledge and skills, thus uni not conferring any benefit.
If we're going to be nitpicky isn't 'learning to learn' a skill? :)
Yes, but it requires other people in the case I outline.
Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
#44Academicearth is a non-profit startup?
from MIT opencourseware FAQ: # Commercialization is prohibited. Users may not directly sell or profit from OCW materials or from works derived from OCW materials.
I saw that too, but they could make it some kind of integrative portal.
If their goal is simply to stay as they are, just with more content, that is, quite literally, incredible. If I'm wrong though, hats off a million times to them.
Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
#45Link to Open Yale:
http://oyc.yale.edu/
I've "sat" halfway through their Econ 159 - Game Theory and Econ 252 - Financial Markets. They seem interesting enough to be completed. Open Yale has best UI but their course plate is limited in numbers and to introduction courses.
Re: I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Omnisio-style comments overlayed on the video itself would be a start, especially if you could control whose comments were displayed.
Only if you could filter them somehow. Most omnisio comments weren't serious. Half of the lecture comments would be idiots making fun of the instructors hair.
OCW + Omnisio-layer + comments provided by the HN community = success