1,700 free online courses from top universities

(openculture.com)

76 points | by momentmaker 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • CalChris 20 minutes ago
    The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
    • orsenthil 4 minutes ago
      Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
  • terrycody 1 minute ago
    I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
  • wodenokoto 14 minutes ago
    A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)
  • S04dKHzrKT 7 minutes ago
    If anyone responsible for the site's CSS happens to see this, the fixed height in pixels of #header causes the nav bar links to be partially obscured making them more difficult to click. My current window's width is 1600.
  • mparnisari 58 minutes ago
    https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category
    • mym1990 23 minutes ago
      When you say they didn't work, what does that mean? Opened 10-20 and they all opened as a PDF or a webpage(albeit some don't have HTTPS certificates).
  • shostack 40 minutes ago
    There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.
    • pastel8739 3 minutes ago
      Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment
    • helterskelter 17 minutes ago
      The book Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is helpful. tl;dr of it is:

      - lots of low-stakes quizzing and practice

      - spaced repetition

      - reflect on what you've learned and what you could do better next time, and apply these lessons in different contexts

      - interleave practice of different but related topics

      - try to solve a problem before being taught the solution

      - distill the underlying principles to different problems

      - remember that if learning is easy, you probably aren't engaging you brain very much

      This will help streamline the process, but obviously there's just a limit to what you can take in.

      • CaptWorld 8 minutes ago
        Very good tips.. I always mess up when doing spaced repetition since I don't take notes, I try to re-read the whole previous material in the book again and I get demotivated that I have to read all that so that I remember all the previous material. Do you know a way to get out of this habit?
      • dartharva 5 minutes ago
        All these things presume actual interest and savviness about the topic present in the student beforehand, which is precisely what most students that struggle with studies lack.
  • helterskelter 46 minutes ago
    https://openstax.org/higher-education

    ^^ Good resource for textbooks

  • mmooss 5 minutes ago
    How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.
  • ai_slop_hater 13 minutes ago
    People don't go to universities for courses