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MIT have most of their courses freely available online :-

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm

 

Well the courses materials are free, but they do not qualify you for a qualification or mean you are an enrolled student. I imagine getting admitted to MIT is no easy feat, and the costs must be pretty high too.

You can however at least learn the stuff even if you will not have it on paper, which seems a great benefit to all the people worldwide that would never get the chance of an MIT style education otherwise.

My Australian visa is still pending, I'm also looking at a fulltime Masters course at a University in Illinois but I'm not sure if a year out is a good idea or not.

My current contract ends this week and I've applied for a few positions abroad and will have to wait and see what happens.

Otherwise it's feet up and summer off !

 

Thanks for this. I have just heard about this from a book I was reading.

Another site that I have been looking at is this: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in./

Although it's from India they do all the video tutorials in English. Not sure if it is up to the same level as the MIT stuff but I have found it very useful for AI lectures.

Thanks,
Dom

 

If I am not mistaken I watched alot of the indian stuff on youtube for revision for my final year. The guy snorts his flem every 10 seconds, its pretty rank.

 

haha I haven't seen that one but will be sure to avoid!!!

 

I've actually been in a resturant with my g/f in a country that shall remain nameless when a guy shamelessly hocked his flem onto the floor between our tables...

 

Heres another link, this time for Stanford :-

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

Apparently they have a great video lecture series on C++ amougst other things...

 

Yes ken, there is a lot of 'free course materials', however a lot of them are quite dull and dry and consist of small snippets of text on web pages.

What I think is good about the above offerings is they are proported to have lively webcasts / learning videos.

There is similar good stuff on YouTube and Google Videos also.

I'm not sure the OpenLearn stuff includes the videos ?

I must say I've been enjoying the James May stuff on TV recently, his stuff on 'Robots', 'Blast Off', 'On The Moon' and 'The Edge of Space' was really good and 'The Story of Maths' by Marcus DuSautoy was an excellent recent OU TV series.

iPlayer - Edge of Space

 

I spent 2 years trying to learn guitar, not played for ages now, still wondering whether to give it another go. Trouble is IT is such a tough master !

 

Maybe save time and learn Spanish Guitar ?

The are a few musicians around on the forums, not seen em for a while though...

 

It looks like one years tuition at MIT costs $80k+, thats me out then !

 

Yeah but $80k buys a lot of spanish guitar lessons on the beach...

 

Plenty of nice links. I have seen the Indian videos before. Not bad.
All this is great and for free. And that what internet is for now. Wherever you are you can study ( if you have got net access).