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Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus

Posted by timothy on from the back-to-school-special dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Professors at the Ohio State University are embracing MOOCs, with a Massive Open Online Calculus Course — it is completely open source; everything is on github. There is are free videos, free online assessment system, and a free textbook!"

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  1. Sadly, calculus is not all that useful... by gweihir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I enjoyed the proof techniques and the clean structure of the theory, I have had almost zero use for it in 20 years of IT research and consulting. Modern algebra or set theory would have been far more useful, but I had to each that to myself...

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