MIT OpenCourseWare
A few days ago I found out about MIT OpenCourseWare, wich is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make all the materials from its undergraduate and graduate level courses online, available to anyone using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license. The material includes, among other things, audio, video and lecture notes from the courses. You can access to all the available courses or just the most visited ones.
The MIT is not the only institution with an initiative like this, many others around the world are doing the same or at least something similar. And also there is the OpenCourseWare Consortium wich groups a large number of Institutes and Organizations with OCW activities.
OCW are nothing new but I didn’t knew about them and maybe there are others didn’t knew either. They are a great way to have access to education, although you don’t receive any certification at the end.
Right now I’m checking MIT’s 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming as taught in Fall 2008, sure I’ll learn lots of new things.
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