Sweet....I'm also looking into the free online classes at Yale as well, now I can bragg that I'm a MIT and Yale educated woman....and all before finishing High School!!!
The University of Berkeley also has free on-line class notes. I'm impressed by the breadth of subjects covered with all of these. Think what this kind of information can do for someone in a little college or secondary school in the 3rd world with few resources except for internet access.
It is really a crime here in the united states that education is so expensive. I checked on taking an introductory 3 credit Algebra class, the book for the class is listed at $120.00 I bought it online Amazon for $4.00, who in their right mind that has any kind of education at all would pay $120.00 for this book, my god it is a requirement for almost every student that enters the college system you would think thay could have made enough money by now selling that book for such a high price.
Then I checked and it was 285 bucks per credit plus lots of fees, it would be over $1200 bucks just for that one course.
The MIT site is great, I am excited to take the exams after doing the course work, again need to switch the 24 hour days to 48 to get these things done.
On the MIT site there is a link to the OpenCourseWare Consortium, where you can find other universities offering open courseware.
For MaryMc2009:
If you haven't already, you should discuss with your guidance counselor the possibility of having some kind of official mentoring & cooperation between your school and Stanford or MIT. So for instance, maybe one of (or several) teachers at your school could supervise students doing the online work, and administer some kind of tests. Then, even if you didn't get college credit, you could still get some kind of letter of recognition & recommendation from your school officials, which would help with college admissions.
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Then I checked and it was 285 bucks per credit plus lots of fees, it would be over $1200 bucks just for that one course.
The MIT site is great, I am excited to take the exams after doing the course work, again need to switch the 24 hour days to 48 to get these things done.
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For MaryMc2009:
If you haven't already, you should discuss with your guidance counselor the possibility of having some kind of official mentoring & cooperation between your school and Stanford or MIT. So for instance, maybe one of (or several) teachers at your school could supervise students doing the online work, and administer some kind of tests. Then, even if you didn't get college credit, you could still get some kind of letter of recognition & recommendation from your school officials, which would help with college admissions.