[lbo-talk] Free online courses

123hop at comcast.net 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Feb 27 19:15:52 PST 2012


For me in particular it's great cause I can knit while listening.

I spend my whole day reading, so it's good to have a break from that.

Also I want to learn Russian & I've been looking for a good class.

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- 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:


> 400 free courses
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> http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
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> Joanna
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