So you want to gain that MIT knowledge without really going to MIT?
Your prayers have been answered. The school recently bolstered the college courses it offers for free through its OpenCourseWare efforts. The idea is to share knowledge in the form of free course content to anyone who has access to the Internet. Efforts to develop OpenCourseWare at MIT started in 2002 and there are now courses offerings which range from A to W (Anthropology to Writing). Though not quite making it to “Z” the effort has spawned some 120 other universities across the globe to extend the concept. For more on the range of universities that are offering free courseware, check out the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Though you can’t get a degree, or access the faculty using OCW, MIT’s OpenCourseWare does go a long way to providing quality educational content to its users. Course materials that are available include syllabi, lectures, assignments, and illustrations; the content comes in many forms, including handwritten lecture notes and video lectures.
