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Exactly as is says on the tin, might be of interest to some here, giving it a go myself.

Taught by Anant Agarwal, with Gerald Sussman and Piotr Mitros, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) is an on-line adaption of 6.002, MIT’s first undergraduate analog design course. This prototype course will run, free of charge, for students worldwide from March 5, 2012 through June 8, 2012. Students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the material and earn a certificate from MITx.
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http://mitx.mit.edu/
 
Oh wow, it's quite cool that they're actually giving out certificates now.

I must say, as a current student, the stuff that MIT put up on their website is incredible. A good few of my essays have referenced various slides from MITs courses.

kd
 
their chemistry department has the entire solid-state chemistry 101 course up on you tube something like 40 + 1 hour long lectures.

some quite good stuff, shame there's no link for the handouts :(
 
I once sat through an online recorded MIT lecture on introductory Thermodynamics, introducing temperature, energy, exergy, entropy and enthalpy. It was a fantastic lecture.
 
http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning#p/c/E621E25B3BF8B9D1
Data structures & algorithms / Higher computing with Richard Buckland.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL84A56BC7F4A1F852&feature=plcp
Programming Methodology - Stanford

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE6E58F856038C69&feature=plcp
Programming Abstractions - Stanford

Always tend to throw these out when we have one of these threads, im sure someone will mention khanacademy also, we do have some fantastic resources available.

Edit - sometimes I just listen to the top link when I'm browsing etc, so easy to listen to a passionate lecturer.
 
And harvard have their cooking science videos up for free, which is awesome.


satchef1 said:
Found this series of lectures by Harvard University on iTunes. Fantastic stuff!

http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/science-and-cooking/id399227991

Currently watching Joan Roca explain Sous-Vide and other techniques used in El Celler de Can Roca. Finding it really fascinating.

Truth be told, I'd love to be on a course like this one, but there's no such thing in the UK. There's 'Food Science' (essentially nutrition, health and food safety), 'Food Technology' (how to mass produce food) and Culinary Arts (how to run a restaurant/catering operation). I can't find a single course anywhere in the country that links science with actual cooking, it's either/or.
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Will be checking the electronic one out, but probably over my head.
 
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Why don't all UK universities do this? It would be a quick way of increasing enrolment numbers and weeding out people who have never done a subject.
Some courses could have mandatory online courses for a few months before they start, would be quite a good idea as they could go straight in with some background knowledge.
 
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RomanNose said:
Why don't all UK universities do this? It would be a quick way of increasing enrolment numbers and weeding out people who have never done a subject.
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how would it weed people out?:confused:



American ones do it because they cost like $100k + a year and want to demonstrate their worth it.

Also i think they just like teaching people.
 
Tefal said:
how would it weed people out?:confused:



American ones do it because they cost like $100k + a year and want to demonstrate their worth it.

Also i think they just like teaching people.
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Some people go and study a subject without ever studying it before. If they had videos or an online course then people would actually know what daily life for the next 4 years is going to be like. I think this would reduce the number of people who drop out in the first year.
 
RomanNose said:
Why don't all UK universities do this?
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The OU does actually - check out opencourseware. I believe the course texts from OU courses are available in certain libraries too.

Re the OP - MIT has been publishing courses for a while now - tis nice that you can get some sort of certificate to show you've studied something with this one.

Also worth checking out are Stanford's Engineering Everywhere courses.

If you're not fussed about getting the credits/degree then there is a lot of free stuff out there.
 
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