Access To Some Brilliant Minds

Old news for some, new for others: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put over 1400 courses online through their OpenCourseWare sight. The courses include not only the sciences and engineering, but history, literature, music/theater arts and much, much more. Want to challenge your students? Check these out!

Each course includes a syllabus, readings, assignments, quizzes and the ability to download pertinent audio or video lectures. I’ve looked through some of the courses and the approaches used to teach are quite interesting. The legal notices seem to indicate that some of these approaches can be used in noncommercial education as long as you attribute your work and are willing to share it.

There are courses available from other universities as highlighted in this Wikipedia article entitled OpenCourseWare.