<p>All 1800 courses are now offered free online. </p>
<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html</a></p>
<p>Let me answer the obvious question:
No, you wont get a degree from this.</p>
<p>will i get a degree from this?</p>
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MIT OCW:
* Is a publication of MIT course materials
* Does not require any registration
*** Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity**
* Does not provide access to MIT faculty
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<p>Emphasis mine.</p>
<p>EDIT: Before anyone says anything, yes, I know its a joke.</p>
<p>OCW is basically the best. My physics teacher kind of uses it to teach us instead of teaching himself, which is kind of weird... but hey, it works!</p>
<p>An MIT education in the comfort of your home? I doubt many of us have the willpower to complete it though...</p>
<p>They don't give out all the solutions...:(</p>
<p>Almost everyone here knows about OCW.</p>
<p>yes! i can finally get a degree from mit!</p>
<p>I used some of the OCW course notes last year for
self study and it was incredibly helpful for my
Research project.</p>
<p>The content quality is outstanding and it is uber-fun to
get a peek into the really cool upper level courses!</p>
<p>by the way that is a TON of courses</p>
<p>I have to be honest -- I don't find OCW all that useful. I used to use it when picking classes to get a brief overview of what a course was like and what book was used, but I never felt like looking through OCW was a substitute for taking a course.</p>
<p>In my own experience, I have made extensive use of OCW.</p>
<p>I taught myself physics going through the 8.01(2) and 8.02(2) courses there during high school, took 8.022 last term, and will grade 8.022 psets this coming term. My 18.03 lecturer could not teach well, so after I bombed the first pset and didn't do so hot on the first test, I started using Mattuck's 18.03 on OCW as a substitute and came out kicking ass on the following psets/tests.</p>
<p>I believe the discrepancy between Mollie's experience and my own is the amount of material available for courses 8 and 18 as compared to 7/9. Though hopefully, things will slowly balance themselves out. :).</p>
<p>And right now I use Walter Lewin's 8.03 to prepare for the spring...</p>
<p>It's too bad he isn't coming out with any more video courses (quantum mechanics, relativity...)-- the first three were amazing</p>
<p>Well, Walter Lewin does not teach 8.04 or 8.033 (quantum and relativity, respectively), which is why those videos don't exist. Not to mention Professor Lewin has recently become very ill, and will not likely be teaching a course anytime in the near future. Currently, he TA's for 8.03, but I don't believe he's going to do that next term, either.</p>
<p>Poor guy. :/.</p>
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I believe the discrepancy between Mollie's experience and my own is the amount of material available for courses 8 and 18 as compared to 7/9.
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Yeah, that's probably true. Most 7/9 courses just have the syllabus, psets, and maybe the readings posted, which really isn't all that useful.</p>
<p>who cares about the degree, the knowledge is power...</p>
<p>They don't even have a video lecture for Ochem. sigh</p>
<p>Try Wolfe's intro psych lectures (9.00 2004) if you haven't taken an equivalent class before - he's very engaging. When I took the class the lectures seemed to move too slow, but they're the perfect pace for listening to in bed.</p>
<p>I've been looking through the math classes on the OCW, but they don't have actual teaching notes do they? All I see are psets, a outline of the reading, and a sylabbus.</p>
<p>oh wait, I guess mollie answered that :-)</p>