Stanford offers free classes online!

[Frenzy]

For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

SEE programming includes one of Stanford�s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford�s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers:

Anytime and anywhere access to complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media.
Full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams.
Online social networking with fellow SEE students.
Support for PCs, Macs and mobile computing devices.
Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms. A Creative Commons license allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material.

Stanford School of Engineering

[Neil]

this is awesome for low income people, gg stanford

[=peg=]

pretty cool actually!

I always felt that the whole education system should make more use of the internet and modern media, and this is a very good example of that!

nice one frenz..

[foq]

awesome. I wonder what you have to do to see the "free" classes though

[Baker]

Nice mostly symbolic gesture.

MIT did this years ago. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Mostly power point presentations, lists of course objectives, assignments and supporting documents that you can usually find for any given class for any given college.

Here are 50 chemistry ones:

http://www.luc.edu/chemistry/syllabus.shtml

[Frenzy]

awesome. I wonder what you have to do to see the "free" classes though

Lol, nothing. You click "Get Started" and it's all there. Lectures on VIDEO, lectures in TEXT, assignments, tests, quizes, ALL OF IT, there IS NO CATCH.

I don't think you all (or some of you) understand, this is as if you were ACTUALLY in the class as the information was given, everything was RECORDED from the classes, etc. This is nuts.

[Baker]

Lectures on VIDEO

I didn't see that. That would make a big difference.

[Gh05t]

freakin awesome