[lbo-talk] Free online courses

[Jeffrey Fisher]

This kind of thing is great, I think, and iTunes is chock full of great
stuff. MIT also has the opencourseware thing, which is less exciting than
it sounds, but still informative.

That being said,

(1) I'm thinking of "taking a course" as different from "listening to a set
of lectures." That actually (to go back to my apparent conflict with shag)
scales. If it's just about lectures or reading, sure, shit-tons of scale.
But giving people lectures or reading seems to be different from teaching.
Otherwise, we could essentially broadcast it. And that doesn't make it
useless. At all. It's good, and I've taken advantage of such things, and
even incorporated bits into my own courses. But still. Not what I want to
do, and not what I thought we were talking about.

(2) skip anything offered by Donald Kagan. Just do.

(3) love the ad from University of Phoenix at the top there. :)

j

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:31 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


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