undo the edumacation

the wonders of the Internet never cease. colleges have been offering distance courses for a while now. even graduate level courses have gone fully online - i can attest to that, i'm about 2/3rds of the way through in a Masters program in Project Management from Boston University. some of the best universities have now gotten together to share for free full course lectures and other class material on the web. and when i say best, i do mean Ivy League level and all, not your Phoenix and DeVries 'Universities'..

in their own words -

Our Mission: Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

i've been browsing through the site downloading material at will.. not because i enjoy studying and putting my head through the wringer out of sheer, masochistic pleasure, but only becausehere is a chance to learn for free, at my own pace, some of the things that i always wanted to learn about - right now i'm downloading coursework on Introduction to Biomedical Engineering & Introduction to Astrophysics

so go on, find some courses or lectures that interest you and broaden your mind!