Online lectures

[DieScum]

Anyone ever watched any online lectures. Stumbled across this yesterday - http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturel...a-866adcae1111 - and was really suprised at the quality of what is available for free. You can really see how good the lecturers are at teaching.

There seems to be a lot out there from a quick google.

Anyone find this interesting or am i too much of a nerd?

[Mich the Tester]

Good stuff. James Bach has a couple of Google Tech Talks which are quite thought provoking for anyone interested in testing, and sometimes a lot more educational than you'd get by paying a grand for a couple of days training at one of the corporate certification mills.

[cojak]

And it's not just engineering either...

Better Business Management do some good webinars that you can look at.

[DieScum]

I think we're now at the point, almost a decade after the internet boom, where we are seeing the true world rocking revolution of the internet. Anyone, with enough internet access, can now access world class courses for free. A really amazing unlocking of human potential.

I suppose the next big revolution is to actually get humanity access to it. So fund basic universal education for all, basic healthcare so we aren't dying young, and enough communications to access the internet.

The last one is by far the easiest with cheap hardware and mobile technology but it would surely make the first two easier to implement. Education will be really important because you need to know enough to work the computer and understand the lingua franca (English probably).

[Purple Dalek]

Is 'shopped, you can see the pixels in the blood splatter.

[DiscoStu]

Is 'shopped, you can see the pixels in the blood splatter.

I think we may have a dalek malfunction going on, that sentence makes no sense to be whatsoever.

[TimberWolf]

MIT have a shedload of online lectures. Years ago I watched some of their linear algebra lectures and they were quite good. Nothing beats a book and working examples through on your own though.