Free Online Video Education from Top Universities

pkrumins writes "Over the past few years, some of the world's top universities have started offering free video recordings of their lectures. Being a student, I have enjoyed them and collected them in my bookmarks — until recently I talked to few people, and they did not know about it! So I decided to create a blog about free video education online. I am mostly focusing on physics, mathematics and computer science video lectures."

Comments

Missing In-Class Learning

[neonprimetime]

At the Big 10 University I went to ... we had online videos of the classes available ... but they were mainly designed for off-campus students (not on-campus students). Yet, I noticed in the classes that did have the online videos ... that the in-class attendance was much lower ... and students were missing out on the in-class interaction cause they chose to skip and just watch the vids. I for one, tried those online vids, and didn't like them. I get much more out of the class when I can interact and stop to interrupt the prof if I have a question.

Re:Missing In-Class Learning

[AuMatar]

AMusingly enough, the interrupt the prof part is why I hated lectures- due to questions they always crawled at the speed of the slowest learner. If you were smarter than average (and even in college I was) so much of the time was taken up explaning the same point I got 5 minutes ago that I wanted to smash something. Especially in low level courses where the people who didn't belong in the program weren't weeded out yet. Questions should be for forums/usenet/office hours after class, not during lecture.