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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
≡ Category: MIT, Online Courses, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, the launch of Stanford Engineering Everywhere, featuring 10 free computer science and engineering courses, got no shortage of buzz on the net. This led me to think, why not highlight other major collections of free university courses/resources. As you’ll see, each collection offers countless hours of free, high quality content. Download the audio [...]
≡ Category: Literature, MIT, Media | ≅ 2 Comments
For a graduate student in an English Ph.D. program, one of the big milestones on the road to the dissertation is the Oral Exam. In my case this involves five professors, a list of 60-80 books, and two hours in a (rhetorically) smoke-filled room. Since I’m working on contemporary literature and new media, one of [...]
≡ Category: Business, MIT, Technology, Web/Tech | ≅ 5 Comments
The New York Times ran a fascinating article today about the feud between Intel and the One Latop Per Child program run by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. If you haven’t heard about it, the initiative is intended to develop a reasonably priced ($200) laptop for primary school children in the third world. The model they’re selling [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
During a week when university podcasts received widespread attention (thanks to a very popular article in the NY Times), we’ve kept a close eye on the high-ranking podcasts on iTunesU. Quite consistently, one podcast — How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? — has ranked at the top. It currently sits in the #2 position, [...]
≡ Category: Google, MIT, Math | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick fyi on two initiatives announced for high school students this past week:
For six years, MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative has done a great job bringing free educational materials to adult learners worldwide. (More on the initiative here.) Now, it has launched a section of its website devoted to high school students and teachers. Here, [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
MIT has released a new search engine that draws on speech recognition technology and lets users search MIT audio & video lectures by keyword. For example, if you type “NASA” into the search box, the search results will include all of the instances where a speaker utters the word NASA in a recorded lecture. (You [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, MIT | ≅ 2 Comments
When universities first started developing their podcast collections, a good number took their audio archives — the many lectures and talks they had recorded over the years — and uploaded them onto iTunes. Now, months later, some institutions are turning to their video archives. Most notably, MIT has given users access to video podcasts taken [...]
≡ Category: MIT | ≅ Leave a Comment
Just a very quick fyi: Open Culture got a nice little mention in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor. It’s within the context of a very good article about MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, which is definitely worth knowing about.
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≡ Category: MIT | ≅ 3 Comments
Five years ago, MIT launched an ambitious initiative with its OpenCourseWare project. The concept was fairly simple. It involved putting online the materials from MIT courses — the syllabi, reading lists, course notes, assignments, etc. — and making them available online to the world at large. Benefiting from this initiative were students and faculty across [...]
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