Well get off your lazy ass, get your download on, and get started:
Good God damn, I loves me some MIT. Just when I was beginning to think that they could never possibly out-awesome their Hip Hop course, they go and offer How to Stage a Revolution. I’m downloading it tonight and starting my uprising first thing tomorrow. Start kissing my ass now if you want to avoid the mines.
1 | Aaron
Where this gets scary is when it’s taken into consideration with the fact that you’re now part of the “bicycle” “community”.
2 | Jacob
So how exactly does this work? Are the classes free? This one sounds incredibly interesting but I’m already taking a couple of masters courses this Fall.
3 | Justin
Essentially, MIT makes all the course material available online at no cost. Sometimes, that might just be syllabi, some PDFs of lectures, etc., while other classes post videos of the lectures. They’ll also give you the list of the reading assignments people taking that class would have completed, etc., but you’d have to purchase any texts like you would normally.
And, of course, there’s no credit or, I believe, instructor feedback.
Might be nerdy fun, though, to get a group of people interested in the same class together online to go through it and share our experiences. We could use the free MIT materials as a guide and create some sort of “class club”… Maybe set up our own web presence with a discussion area and assigned dates.
Of course, I’m also a big fucking nerd, so maybe I’d be the only person who thinks this sounds “fun.”
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