While it will not get you a degree or even course-credit, some of you that just enjoy reading and learning about a random thing here or there - and maybe wish to take a different avenue than simply crawling Wikipedia - should find MIT’s OpenCourseWare a very useful resource.
Certainly this is not news for many, but I’ve forgotten all about said great site. It offers lectures, slides and videos up for grabs, and there are a variety of courses in many disciplines made available1. I believe having some direction in terms of what to study is nice, and the added freedom of at-your-leisure perusal should make this an enjoyable experience for many.
Michael Geist also wonders why academic institutions in Canada do not take part in OCW to a larger extent.
- Not only MIT material, as the list of contributors is ever-expanding [↩]
