How Do You Use Open Courses?

I lis­ten to lec­tures while walk­ing to work, rid­ing the bus, or some­times while at work.

I tend towards lec­tures on eco­nom­ics, psy­chol­o­gy, phi­los­o­phy, and the social sci­ence of the inter­net.

The goal is just per­son­al enrich­ment.

In addi­tion to the great selec­tion of open course­ware, I’m a big bloggingheads.tv fan.

I lis­ten for per­son­al enjoy­ment while run­ning. Long runs and long lec­tures go hand-in-hand.

I’ve lis­tened to Yale’s course on the Hebrew Bible. I’m also part way through Physics for Future Pres­i­dents.

A hearty thanks for the help­ful info. Keep it com­ing.

Our home school fam­i­ly uses the cours­es as class­room mate­r­i­al. Both of my high school age kids have “tak­en” “Physics for Future Pres­i­dents” and they were inspired by it.

Of course, I still have to pre­pare tests, and assign out­side read­ing and writ­ing assign­ments for the cours­es we use.

Does any­one know of any open cours­es that include links to tests and quiz mate­ri­als to reduce my “teacher” work­load?

I watch open­course video when­ev­er I can find time (busy work sched­ule late­ly).

I use it for per­son­al, as well as pro­fes­sion­al pur­pos­es. Being a young contractor/freelancer, how much I make and how much work I can find depends direct­ly what I’m capa­ble of.

Late­ly I’ve been watch­ing a lot of vids on Entre­pre­neur­ship (’cause Michael Dell and Guy Kawasa­ki have a lot of good stuff to share about starting/running a busi­ness), Ecomon­ics (’cause what you see on TV news is BS and I like to be informed). Com­put­er Sci­ence I from Har­vard (I like to go back and fill in gaps). Oper­at­ing Sys­tems from Berkley (for new mate­r­i­al). And Physics from MIT with Wal­ter Lewin (because I like physics too much to take a real class in school and Lewin is awe­some). Lewin kin­da reminds me of the Red Bull Sci­en­tist guy… that makes him almost as awe­some as Ein­steins foonky hair­do.

I get most of my mate­r­i­al via Aca­d­e­m­ic Earth. I only wish I could plug it into box­ee and watch on tv via AppleTV or over a HTPC run­ning win­dows and Box­ee alpha.

I watch Open­Course­ware most­ly because I don’t see myself going back to school to fin­ish my degree any time soon. I severe­ly dis­like the tra­di­tion­al school sys­tems (pol­i­tics and all) and much pre­fer to pro­duce some­thing tan­gi­ble with my efforts. The instruc­tors at Har­vard, MIT, etc… remind me of what it was like to have great instruc­tors who are gen­uine­ly pas­sion­ate about what they teach. If I had instruc­tors like them I’d go back in an instant. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, they don’t allow online degrees to go along with this mate­r­i­al so I’ll be study­ing for the intrin­sic sat­is­fac­tion for now.

For the pre­vi­ous com­menter. Aca­d­e­micEarth has links to course mate­ri­als (assign­ments, tests, quizzes) attached to each course where they’re avail­able.

I spent ten years in grad­u­ate school and final­ly tired of the degrees and reg­i­men but not of the learn­ing expe­ri­ence and frankly I’m thrilled by being in the class­room from the com­fort of my home. My inter­ests are eclec­tic so I’ll fol­low a course in Ancient His­to­ry with one on Mod­ern Physics. I could­n’t be more pleased to have stum­bled upon Open Cul­ture, and thank you.

Per­son­al devel­op­ment; lis­ten on ipod in car or mow­ing lawn. I don’t do video cours­es, just audio.

I lis­ten in the bus or plug MP3 into car. Cours­es are: Ancient His­to­ry (which I am also study­ing at uni­ver­si­ty), var­i­ous top­ics in phi­los­o­phy and astron­o­my for my own inter­est, com­put­ers (for work).
It’s opened up a whole new world and thanks very much to the uni­ver­si­ties who pro­vide these cours­es.

dur­ing com­mute

I stum­bledupon Open­Cul­ture and I’ve been hooked dai­ly.

There are two RSS feeds I vis­it dai­ly — BBC and Open­Cul­ture.

I have a dri­ve for knowl­edge and my inter­ests range from so many things.

Open­Cul­ture’s posts are fas­ci­nat­ing and caters to actu­al­ly almost all of my inter­ests: films, lit­er­a­ture, lan­guages, your videos are awe­some too, and the open cours­es have all been inter­est­ing.

Per­son­al enrich­ment while dri­ving. Biology,history and phi­los­o­phy so far.

I’ve been lis­ten­ing to open access uni­ver­si­ty cours­es since they start­ed. Before that, I perused open-access syl­labi & stud­ied required books for var­i­ous uni­ver­si­ty cours­es. I focus on lit­er­a­ture, par­tic­u­lar­ly poet­ry, but also enjoy phi­los­o­phy and some his­to­ry. Why? To learn, to grow, to be remind­ed that, while I’m sur­round­ed by peo­ple who actu­al­ly care who wins Danc­ing with the Stars, there are oth­ers, many oth­ers who are intel­le­gent, eru­dite, and ele­gant in their speech who under­stand that poet­ry, phi­los­o­phy, and his­to­ry are rich and reward­ing pur­suits.

I do like to use the open cours­es to enrich myself everyday.Reading and learn­ing makes me feel full.I hap­pend to find this websit,and i like the style quite a lot .

I lis­ten to His­to­ry cours­es as I com­mute to and from work. I stud­ied his­to­ry in my under­grad, and the open cours­es are a great way for me to con­tin­ue with it. It is pure­ly for enter­tain­ment.

I might have pur­chased cours­es online had I not found openculture.com first. Obvi­ous­ly the price is attrac­tive, as is the abil­i­ty to sam­ple cours­es to find some­one that you want to lis­ten to for 24 hours.

I would also like to say that I enjoy explor­ing all the open source stuff from HTML to TED. I like watch­ing this idea grow. I think that we should be care­ful not to insult peo­ple who don’t use com­put­ers or who enjoy sub­jects that some (Leisha­lynn) may find repug­nant. It takes all kinds of peo­ple to make a world. Con­cen­trate on what His­to­ry, Sci­ence, Art et.al can teach us about how we can WORK to make the world a good place to live for every­one.