Yale for Free!?

[CowboyMcCoy]

Anyone can take online classes at Yale for learning purposes.

Have a look.

http://oyc.yale.edu/

Pretty cool if you ask me.

 

[Hoofbite]

I think other schools have similar setups on iTunes.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I think other schools have similar setups on iTunes.

I have a newfound respect for the Ivy's though. I mean, this isn't the University of Phoenix. I'm passively taking a few on the Yale site, but that's just because I'm a nerd.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I just started taking this one, although I've already read a few on her reading list. She's got a hefty syllabus for sure. Nothing I'm unaccustomed to, though.

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945/

 

[Hoofbite]

I have a newfound respect for the Ivy's though. I mean, this isn't the University of Phoenix. I'm passively taking a few on the Yale site, but that's just because I'm a nerd.

Aside from the knowledge, of which the only benefit is likely a neat presentation, you're not really getting a whole lot out of it are you?

I'll probably check a few out just to see what they look like. Most of the courses are pretty gen-ed type stuff.

If you're really into it, checkout iTunes U. They probably have 200 or so colleges you can check out courses from.

Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell

They have a ton.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Aside from the knowledge, of which the only benefit is likely a neat presentation, you're not really getting a whole lot out of it are you?

I'll probably check a few out just to see what they look like. Most of the courses are pretty gen-ed type stuff.

If you're really into it, checkout iTunes U. They probably have 200 or so colleges you can check out courses from.

Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell

They have a ton.

Cool. No, not a whole lot of benefit other than knowledge. But I like knowledge. I think "Frontiers in Astrophysics" would be cool. I always like to hear various astronomers. Same with English professors. I don't think you can ever get too much. I do like that you can you tube/itunes various lectures, etc.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I just started taking this one, although I've already read a few on her reading list. She's got a hefty syllabus for sure. Nothing I'm unaccustomed to, though.

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/american-novel-since-1945/

Hands down worst professor I've ever had, anywhere, was a graduate of either Yale or Princeton. Got her masters at Purdue. I cannot begin to explain how poor of an instructor she was.

In fact, the guy that sat next to me actually stopped her in the middle of class (after she wouldn't allow us to ask her why she was doing a fundamental calculus formulation incorrectly), told her she was completely wrong on what she was doing. She asked him what part.

He stands up, goes to the board, takes a piece of chalk, and starts at the left board, draws a line across everything she's written to the far right board, and says "From there, to here, nothing you've done is right unless you wanted to confuse the class or make us think you're unqualified to teach."

She wasted 30 minutes teaching the class the incorrect way to do something and never got it corrected completely. When I dropped the class, I wrote a scathing note to the head of the math department on why I was doing so. Still gets me hot under the collar to think she had a job as an instructor.

 

[VietCowboy]

Hands down worst professor I've ever had, anywhere, was a graduate of either Yale or Princeton. Got her masters at Purdue. I cannot begin to explain how poor of an instructor she was.

In fact, the guy that sat next to me actually stopped her in the middle of class (after she wouldn't allow us to ask her why she was doing a fundamental calculus formulation incorrectly), told her she was completely wrong on what she was doing. She asked him what part.

He stands up, goes to the board, takes a piece of chalk, and starts at the left board, draws a line across everything she's written to the far right board, and says "From there, to here, nothing you've done is right unless you wanted to confuse the class or make us think you're unqualified to teach."

She wasted 30 minutes teaching the class the incorrect way to do something and never got it corrected completely. When I dropped the class, I wrote a scathing note to the head of the math department on why I was doing so. Still gets me hot under the collar to think she had a job as an instructor.

My worst is someone who made us read articles from 50-60 years. My guess is that the instructor just copied his professor's syllabus when he went to school there and just never bothered to update it. They finally changed the requirement last year so that those who haven't taken this class no longer have to take it.

 

[ajk23az]

I sure hope they still dont use chalkboards at Yale...

 

[YosemiteSam]

I posted a while back a bunch of free classes that Stanford offers online.

 

[JonJon]

Cool... I can add this to my resume.

 

[kapolani]

Been going through the Standford IOS programming course. Pretty good primer.

Love all these free online courses.

 

[bbgun]

Finally, a women's studies course they can't bar me from.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Finally, a women's studies course they can't bar me from.

I have the same problem. I think gender studies is quackery, mostly, because people take it to extremes and radicalize everything.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Hands down worst professor I've ever had, anywhere, was a graduate of either Yale or Princeton. Got her masters at Purdue. I cannot begin to explain how poor of an instructor she was.

In fact, the guy that sat next to me actually stopped her in the middle of class (after she wouldn't allow us to ask her why she was doing a fundamental calculus formulation incorrectly), told her she was completely wrong on what she was doing. She asked him what part.

He stands up, goes to the board, takes a piece of chalk, and starts at the left board, draws a line across everything she's written to the far right board, and says "From there, to here, nothing you've done is right unless you wanted to confuse the class or make us think you're unqualified to teach."

She wasted 30 minutes teaching the class the incorrect way to do something and never got it corrected completely. When I dropped the class, I wrote a scathing note to the head of the math department on why I was doing so. Still gets me hot under the collar to think she had a job as an instructor.

Hands down one of the best professors I ever had went to Yale. I guess it varies.

His story is fascinating, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._K._Seung

 

[Future]

Cool. No, not a whole lot of benefit other than knowledge. But I like knowledge. I think "Frontiers in Astrophysics" would be cool. I always like to hear various astronomers. Same with English professors. I don't think you can ever get too much. I do like that you can you tube/itunes various lectures, etc.

I'm working on my M.A. right now...trust me it gets old :laugh2:

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/people/faculty_detail.php?faculty_id=251

That guy is the best teacher I ever had. I just loved going to his class. It was like sitting down and hearing a good story every lecture.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I'm working on my M.A. right now...trust me it gets old :laugh2:

Trust me; I know.