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MIT Open Courseware with 500 Courses
Comp Bio Guy writes "As promised, MIT has finally released 500 courses worth of lecture notes, syllabi, and exams to provide a 'free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.' Take a look (and maybe a test or two) at MIT's OCW site."
Let's hope that OCW doesn't end up in the list of banned sites for one of the CIPA mandated web filtering applications. Of course, we'd never know, since most of the companies don't publish the site or keyword lists that they block.
Complexity is Easy. Simplicity is Hard.
sorry for seeming cynical, but it matters less than it seems. I think in the real world if you care about education then what matters is the certification, a piece of paper that you can show to others, that's why many seem willing to pay hundreds or thousands for one or few days of courses about things they already know about or they could figure out by just reading a book, just so that they can add a certificate to their resume. Otherwise, if you're not the kind of person who relies on certificates, then school education might be superfluous and of little use, Bill Gates and Ellison are just examples, and many others will tell you school education is for drones.