BUt that’s why I protest. Subtitles and transcripts help if I didn’t hear the lecture. I would say that a bigger argument could be made over copyright or that they shouldn’t be free. If anything, the MIT ones are the most basic courses. They aren’t enough to cover all the classes for a degree, pretty much just the 100s and maybe some 200s.
One of the freshman students at UC-Irvine, whom I advise, doesn’t understand his Linear Alegbra prof, so he has been listening to the Linear Algebra courses at MIT and says that they are much better. These classes are the MOOCs that have been so popular. They are a GREAT use of the internet. If you checked closely, you would see that Not all of them are just basic courses.