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| Thu Jan 4
| Gregory M. Lamb
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:52:44 AM PST by bad company
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The actual MIT link is here;
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
To: bad company
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01/15/2007 3:55:02 AM PST
by
bkepley
To: bad company
A neat idea, but what can I get from MIT courses that I can't get at the local library?
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01/15/2007 3:58:13 AM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
To: bad company
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01/15/2007 4:00:30 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: Lunatic Fringe
A neat idea, but what can I get from MIT courses that I can't get at the local library? You can do this sitting in your jammies....... oops sorry. Forgot who I was talking to. ;-)
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01/15/2007 4:01:49 AM PST
by
bad company
([link:www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml | The Path to 9/11])
To: Lunatic Fringe
what can I get from MIT courses that I can't get at the local library? You can play on the MIT Online Basketball Team. ;->
Seriously, this is a boon to homeschoolers. You don't have to search for the stuff elevant to your subject.
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01/15/2007 4:04:53 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: bad company
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posted on
01/15/2007 4:05:07 AM PST
by
bad company
([link:www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml | The Path to 9/11])
To: Lunatic Fringe
Local libraries have scant technical resources.
Actually, I've perused some of their courseware. Basically, it's just lecture notes, no big thing. You have to buy the text book with your own dough. Some of the lecture notes are mostly just hand drawn vugraphs. You do get problem sets, some solutions.
You cannot contact the faculty; you don't get a beaver ring, or a grade or a transcript.
I have found some excellent courseware on the Web, MIT's didn't really impress me.
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01/15/2007 4:10:24 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Peace will come when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate Israel)
To: bad company
Hey, thanks for the link.
Looks like this could be a cool site.
To: Izzy Dunne
Seriously, this is a boon to homeschoolers. You don't have to search for the stuff elevant to your subject. I imagine this will be a tremendous benefit to progress, but a huge blow to modern leftism.
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01/15/2007 4:15:48 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: bad company
Thanks for that link. I've been looking for something like that, Now I have it bookmarked.
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01/15/2007 5:01:27 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Thanks for the link, bookmarked.
To: Nailbiter
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Basically, it's just lecture notes, no big thing. It's been years since I saw "The Paper Chase", but IIRC, the students at Harvard break into the library and steal the class notes (from long ago) of the great Professor Kingsfield. Having these notes, they are sure, will reveal to them the deep secrets of Contract Law.
Of course, when they look at them, they learn that his notes are a lot like anybody's notes. The secret to the knowledge isn't in the notes -- it's in the minds of the people who think deeply on the subject.
That being said, I think MIT is doing a good thing here. It's not the Holy Grail, but it still has value.
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posted on
01/15/2007 5:13:58 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: 21stCenturion
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01/15/2007 5:17:55 AM PST
by
21stCenturion
("It's the Judges, Stupid !")
To: ClearCase_guy
Exactly. Lecture notes don't tell the whole story. That's what the professor is supposed to do--fill in the information between the lines.
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01/15/2007 5:21:30 AM PST
by
rbg81
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To: bad company
Great. So now I can cut classes remotely...
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posted on
01/15/2007 5:24:09 AM PST
by
gridlock
(Time to dump the Rebound Guys (McCain & Rudy), and start looking for Mr. Right (Wing).)
To: bad company
The old saying applies: You get what you pay for!
To: AntiKev
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posted on
01/15/2007 5:29:12 AM PST
by
Former Proud Canadian
(How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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