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In the past, I have written about Yale’s best-of-breed Open Course initiative, which makes available 15 free courses. They’re all recorded in high quality video and can be downloaded in multiple formats. You can access the full list here. Somewhere along the line (I’m not sure exactly when), Yale made these courses available on a [...]
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I wanted to give everyone a heads up that Yale has just released its second round of “open courses.” And I have to say that the lineup looks great. Let me quickly list them for you:
The American Novel Since 1945 (Amy Hungerford)
Introduction to Greek History (Donald Kagan)
Game Theory (Ben Polak)
Financial Markets (Robert Shiller)
Milton (John Rogers)
France [...]
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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 [...]
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Yesterday, Yale announced that it is providing “free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.” I’ve listed the course lineup below, with links to each course. You can access the homepage for the project here.
With this launch, [...]
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As part of its 300th anniversary celebration, Yale University gathered together some of its foremost faculty and offered an extended series of lectures on the state of American democracy. Collectively entitled "Democratic Vistas," this wide-ranging series explores American democracy in historical and contemporary terms and looks at how it meshes with other fixtures of our [...]
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Yale announced yesterday that it’s joining the podcast revolution, and they’re doing it with a little bit of ooomph. (If you have iTunes, click here to enter Yale’s collection. If you don’t, you can download it here from Apple for free.) What you’ll find on Yale iTunes are free lectures by Yale’s big hitters. You’ll [...]