lots of instructional videos on many subjects including basic and advanced maths, banking, biology, chemistry, astronomy, finance, history, etc. Khan Academy
Therefore, if anyone claims they are paying for their next degree for personal enrichment, I have no words for them, just a single emoticon :buttkick: I can't wait to finish school so that I can get my learn on for real!
I never really believed any of that "personal enrichment" stuff anyway. Personal enrichment is why they created public libraries, not university degree programs.
Kizmet, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! Thanks so much for sharing this resource. I have a young friend who is struggling with math and this should help him. I might just use a few of those videos in my upcoming statistics classes, too.
- Videolectures.net a great source of free courses from various universities, and a few courses from IU: IMDS
cool I'm going to use this one for excelsior's social psychology exam http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2428/Social-Psychology-Self-and-Society
Sal Khan IS MY FAVORITE teacher hands down. I'm sure his link has been shared before!? He brought me through biology, chemistry, and stats with passing grades. I hope he can pull me through Physics next month! Best resource, I almost sent him a Christmas gift- no lie.
Makes one want to send in a little financial support to insure that this resource will be around in the future. I might. I already sent a small amount to Wikipedia...soft touch I suppose.
Your promotion is probably more valuable than the lousy $10 I gave to Wikipedia. By the way, I got a nice thank you email from Wikipedia inviting me to send them money every month. I thought that was comical, "thanks for the money, can we have more now?"
I once donated to my local carrier of NPR. Even after moving away, they found me and to this day keep sending me what are starting to sound more like collections notices than requests for donations. EDIT: In case I wasn't clear enough, it is not NPR that is doing this to me, but a local public radio station that carries their programming.
Hey MC, I wonder if a person could go through some of those Khan courses and then pass a CLEP. That might be the way to go for some undergrads, if it would work.
I find it in no way surprising that any business related to NPR has no qualms with looking for a free handout.
Yes, people do things like this. Mostly I hear about Itunes University and open courseware. EDIT: I just found out that Khan Academy videos are available on Itunes U.
I guess they agree with you that you're a soft touch. ;-) I listen to one of the local NPR stations and to the local Pacifica station. NPR seems to do well enough with corporate underwriting and bequests from people like Joan Kroc that I'm not very worried about them. But I gather that Pacifica is a lot more uncertain financially, and even though I sometimes disagree with their perspective they seem worth keeping on the air as an alternative viewpoint. -=Steve=-
Khan is the ONLY resource I used for testing out of DSST Introduction to Stats. (I watched a few of the Against All Odds vids at learner dot org the year before-those are very helpful too but I didn't feel like they were high enough yield for me) but yes- I did it. I watched all of his probability vids and some of the stats- it got over my head toward mid-series- so I felt like he jumped a little too far (I lacked a solid foundation in algebra graphing, I've never taken an algebra course) so I just kinda stopped and ignored the second set of stats vids. Anyway, it was enough to pass the DSST with a 442.
