Open Courseware Link Salad

[neadods]

According to my tags, I last posted on this two years ago, so time to update:

Open Courseware is when a college puts its lecture materials online for anyone to download. The links below go to articles, main college links for MIT, Harvard, and Yale, and to whatever Shakespeare classes I could find in a quick search.

iTunes University has more classes, but it's worth noting that you don't need an iPod or iTunes to access most of this material.



http://www.wisebread.com/download-a-yale-lecture-more-universities-offer-courses-to-the-public

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html

http://lecturefox.com/

http://educhoices.org/articles/Shakespeare_OpenCourseWare_MITs_Free_Bachelor_Level_Class_on_Shakespeare.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

http://oyc.yale.edu/

https://open.umich.edu/education

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/1_Top_10_Universities_With_Free_Courses_Online.php

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-435Shakespeare--Film-and-MediaFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-703Fall2003/CourseHome/

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-009Spring2004/CourseHome/

Comments

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! I'll have some fun trawling through those.

Speaking of Shakespeare, are you familiar with Playing Shakespeare? It was an educational TV series made back in 1984 with John Barton of the RSC directing a bunch of well-known British actors, including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, and apparently Judi Dench, although I haven't gotten to the episode she features in. The show was released on DVD about 6 months back; I just got the first disc from Netflix, and I am enchanted. There's an article about the show with some clips here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105518406

[neadods.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not! *runs to Netflix*

[raqs.livejournal.com]

Wow, what motivated this?

I think Yale's open courseware lectures are some of the worst I've ever seen, by the way.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

what motivated this?

iTunes' iUniversity email with some interesting-looking courses in my inbox, the thought "I bet I can download most of this direct," and about 10 minutes to kill with Google. Then I wanted to keep the links all in one place where I could find 'em again because one of this year's "little" resolutions is to listen to a class during every morning commute and there's only so much Teaching Company stuff I have access to.

I think Yale's open courseware lectures are some of the worst I've ever seen, by the way.

Somehow not surprised: you get what you pay for when stuff is free. Although there's some Open Classroom, if I'm recalling the name right, that should have been titled "someone with a degree puts a gloss on old prejudices." I saw it once in Barnes and Noble but don't remember all the details because I recoiled once I hit topics like gender differences and the problems with evolution.

[raqs.livejournal.com]

"you get what you pay for when stuff is free"

Not so. Some of MIT's and Stanford's stuff is FANTASTIC. I am very bitter about Yale's stuff - they got an external grant to make that crap, and God knows they don't need the money.

An awful lot of very good stuff is available only through iTunes because faculty on their own can publish stuff that way, without their institution having an opencourseware web presence.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

An awful lot of very good stuff is available only through iTunes

I didn't know that. I'll be downloading gobs and gobs anyway. Bummer to hear about Yale, but MIT has some juicy-looking Shakespeare stuff.

[raqs.livejournal.com]

Actually I'll look at some of the Yale ones from other fields (though I am not hopeful). The ones in English sucked.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you made this post; I'd never even heard of open courseware, but I downloaded some chemistry and physics lectures from MIT and they're amazing (the chemistry especially is an absolute godsend to someone like me who's doing a PhD with chemistry content but doesn't have a degree in the subject).

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I've heard of it now and then, but I've never pursued it before. Then iTunes got me all curious.

Glad it's useful stuff for you!