<p>Now Yale offers a great deal of courses online (and free) ! Truly astonishing...</p>
<p>ABC</a> News: How to Go Ivy League -- for Free</p>
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Now anyone with a computer can attend class at Yale University by accessing "Open Yale Courses" ? seven full-semester liberal arts classes available free on Yale's Web site.
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"I can imagine that 'took courses at Yale' is going to be a line on a lot of people's resumes," said Kleiner.
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<p>Not to diminish the generosity and motivation behind this "opening of the Ivy League Curtain", but MIT has been doing the same thing for a few years with MIT OpenCourseWare, which contains many videotaped segments of course lectures, together with course material (psets and exams). I'm glad Yale is following in this vein. I like that many of the elite colleges are pursuing the goal of open quality education, not education reserved to a select few.</p>
<p>Lol at people putting "taken classes at Yale." The education is only a small part of an Ivy League degree.</p>
<p>People don't go to Ivy schools because they learn more than other schools. They go because of the motivated student body and the opportunities a school presents.</p>
<p>lol i actually used these to review for psychology/physics tests and the teachers are amazing to say the least</p>
<p>Yale would put these up on iTunes as podcasts. It's a pretty tedious process to individually download every lecture and then transfer it to an iPod.</p>