Educating yourself has never been easier

I think this is a rather interesting move on the part of major universities. I wonder if they are using it as a marketing strategy in a way: Here, we will offer you X materials for free, as a way of perhaps interesting you in pursuing a degree with us later down the road.

It seems like this might be a good way for some who can't necessarily afford another degree program to pick up some knowledge and perhaps some skills that could be useful in their careers.

I don't think, however, that this will replace the seeking of a degree or the need for a degree as a qualification for many jobs.

Also, since these materials are from well established accredited universities, then the materials have been "vetted" so to speak, unlike those course materials available through solely online universities without accreditation.

I've heard of this. If it's taken just to brush up job skills it's great.

Interesting....thanks for sharing.

yeah, these are not only "vetted", 3 of the ones I linked are the cream of the crop in their respective fields.

yeah I discovered this awhile back......I was watching one of the MIT vids.....a "beginners" class for I.T. or something like that......waaaaaaayyyy over my head!

Hehe, it was probably a comp sic class. That stuff isn't hard, you just have to be familiar with the vocabulary they are using. If you have time check out this one and let me know what you think, it's the first lecture of the intro to comp sic at MIT

uh....wrong link?

sorry, here it is.