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Harvard University Free Lectures

by akshaykarthik on 11/19/11, 2:25 PM with 9 comments

  • by roman_vorushin on 11/19/11, 4:36 PM

    Stanford's classes are specially designed for online education (i.e. not a byproduct of on-campus lectures from 2003). In last years 3 major innovation dramatically increased effectiveness of online education:

    1. Special format (found by Salman Khan): short videos, blackboard

    2. A lot of quizzes inside lectures (inquiry based learning). See http://t.co/eN9g9MAU and http://t.co/YiXUMs9x

    3. Group effects (http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...). If your class has definite schedule and you have thousands of people doing this class with you and communicating while doing it, your results will be much higher.

  • by badalyan on 11/19/11, 5:22 PM

    New and improved 2011 version:

    https://www.cs50.net/lectures/

  • by utkarshkukreti on 11/19/11, 3:49 PM

    Other Harvard courses under the "Open Learning Initiative" - http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative

  • by missy on 11/19/11, 8:38 PM

    I m doing online studies at the University of London ( http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/ ) and we have in some modules to every section a Video to give an overview and PDF for revision and Quizzes for testing yourself. The actual exam can be taken on campus or at your near British Consulate or Embassy.

    Its pretty hard studying this way in comparision to study on campus. but far more convient and cheaper.

    I assume that this is the same with other US Online studies like at Harvard or Standford. I just notice that the lectures in the Harvard videos that I ve watched, they seem to be aware of Online Students watching this later as an recording, and they are far more appealing to watch.

    This is the Youtube channel to my Online Uni

    http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5

    This Video id say is a better one, but many others are bad to watch online.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/UniofLondon?blend=16&ob=5#p/...

    I wonder what you thought of the British Style in this video to the US ones you have seen.

    thanks

  • by sweely on 11/19/11, 3:36 PM

    Stanford's lectures are way better.