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MIT Open Courseware has a rating of 4.5 stars from 4 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. MIT Open Courseware ranks 33rd among Science Other sites.

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Top Positive Review

“I just came across this site last evening and am so...”

Joanne N.
7/27/11

I just came across this site last evening and am so glad I did. This site offers you a free learning experience if you are only interested in expanding your mind and not getting a degree for it. I look forward to spending time this weekend checking out philosophy. History, and psychology just for fun. Check it out

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76 reviews
293 helpful votes
July 27th, 2011

I just came across this site last evening and am so glad I did. This site offers you a free learning experience if you are only interested in expanding your mind and not getting a degree for it. I look forward to spending time this weekend checking out philosophy. History, and psychology just for fun. Check it out

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265 reviews
1,793 helpful votes
February 16th, 2011

I think that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was one of the first major universities to put their undergraduate and graduate courses online in the early 2000s. It triggered a host of other universities to do the same (Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Stanford, etc.) The mostly free courses run in the thousands and across all disciplines offered by MIT. I wish I had the time to do an entire neuroscience class or two, but I've interacted with a couple of classes in behavioral psychology courses. The downside is that you don't get a degree from it, but the upside is that you're getting access to some great material and giving your brain a little workout.

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654 reviews
3,550 helpful votes
October 8th, 2010

MIT - the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - is undoubtedly one of the most famous homes of advanced learning in the world. In the field of sciences and technology of all manners, it's the most famous, and it offers the most exclusive, the most sought-after education to the technological visionaries of the next generation. So it's a huge deal for self-learners and anyone for whom the many subjects taught at MIT hold fascination, when the Institute opens its doors to the public, for free.

Well, not exactly its doors, more like its filing cabinets and cupboards, wherein may be found course notes, lecture notes, video and audio multimedia and exam papers, in some cases going back a few years but still relevant, and in other cases much more up to date. It's what the Institute calls OCW, or Open Course Work, and anyone with an internet connection may simply come here and dive straight in to materials that nobody outside of a very small and fortunate academic community has been able to access before.

Amongst the most popular courses, it's no surprise to find Introduction to Computer Science at the top. But even Single Variable Calculus makes an appearance in third place, suggesting that I probably have nothing in common with the sort of people attracted to this site. Well, not based on my achievements in pure math at school, anyway.

I was surprised to find philosophy and language studies present here, as are several writing courses, as related to gender, womens' and race studies. A little something for the arts people at MIT? I wouldn't have guessed.

These are not, of course, full courses being handed out for free, nor are they all this year's courses. They are fragments and collections of artifacts, but none the less important for that. Here are opportunities to read, hear, and see the lectures you couldn't hope to experience in any other way or any other place. And all free, no registration required. A remarkably generous sharing of knowledge.

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