1,700 free online courses from top universities(www.openculture.com)
103 pointsby momentmaker3 hours ago11 comments
  • CalChrisan hour ago
    The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
  • mparnisari2 hours ago
    https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category
    • mym19902 hours ago
      When you say they didn't work, what does that mean? Opened 10-20 and they all opened as a PDF or a webpage(albeit some don't have HTTPS certificates).
  • wodenokotoan hour ago
    A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)
  • helterskelter2 hours ago
    https://openstax.org/higher-education

    ^^ Good resource for textbooks

  • cadamsdotcom7 minutes ago
    All this great free learning! We live in a time of incredible abundance.

    And yet when I look up from my phone at the screens of everyone else on the bus, I am the only one not on Instagram.

  • shostack2 hours ago
    There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.
    • pastel8739an hour ago
      Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment
    • helterskelteran hour ago
      The book Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is helpful. tl;dr of it is:

      - lots of low-stakes quizzing and practice

      - spaced repetition

      - reflect on what you've learned and what you could do better next time, and apply these lessons in different contexts

      - interleave practice of different but related topics

      - try to solve a problem before being taught the solution

      - distill the underlying principles to different problems

      - remember that if learning is easy, you probably aren't engaging you brain very much

      This will help streamline the process, but obviously there's just a limit to what you can take in.

      • CaptWorldan hour ago
        Very good tips.. I always mess up when doing spaced repetition since I don't take notes, I try to re-read the whole previous material in the book again and I get demotivated that I have to read all that so that I remember all the previous material. Do you know a way to get out of this habit?
        • naishoya10 minutes ago
          Start taking notes.
      • dartharvaan hour ago
        All these things presume actual interest and savviness about the topic present in the student beforehand, which is precisely what most students that struggle with studies lack.
        • helterskelter5 minutes ago
          Actually, a lot of the research they base their advice on was performed on elementary school students, and college classrooms which had poor attendance. Simple things like giving elementary students an ungraded quiz right before class (to force recall) two or three times a week raised grades substantially, and a college class that switched from midterms/finals to 9 quizzes plus a final not only had higher attendance, but also had much higher grades on their finals with basically none of the students falling behind. Another experiment had young kids practice throwing beans bags into a bucket, one group alternating practice between 2 and 4 feet, and another only practicing at 3 feet. After a month or two, they were tested on throwing the bag into the bucket at 3 feet and the kids who practiced at 2 and 4 feet performed significantly better than the kids who only practiced at three. Anyway, my point is that small, simple changes to how you study can have big implications for retention, without too much extra effort.

          Sorry, I'm still reading this book right now and it's super interesting.

  • S04dKHzrKTan hour ago
    If anyone responsible for the site's CSS happens to see this, the fixed height in pixels of #header causes the nav bar links to be partially obscured making them more difficult to click. My current window's width is 1600.
  • terrycodyan hour ago
    I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
    • gabrielsroka43 minutes ago
      Search for "computer science". I found several CS50...
  • AlexeyBrin31 minutes ago
    Too bad that most Coursera courses are now behind a paywall. First they were free without certification, after a few years they removed the access to quizzes and tests but you could still audit for free. Now, you have to pay.
  • mmoossan hour ago
    How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.
  • ai_slop_hateran hour ago
    People don't go to universities for courses