Open Learning. Is Yale the key?

Yet another prestigious American university puts course material online...

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education. Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used.

Courses available at the launch are:

• Introduction to Psychology
• Introduction to Political Philosophy
• Frontiers & Controversies in Astrophysics
• Modern Poetry
• Death
• Fundamentals of Physics
• Introduction to the Old Testament

Really good stuff (on brief acquaintance) - videos of individual lectures with transcripts, notes & audio files (mp3), all freely downloadable. One word of warning - these are complete courses which can consist of 20+ lectures plus, heavens above, required reading. Still, a useful addition to the canon. Remember learning for learnings sake?

http://open.yale.edu/

This post is also available as a podcast (aRKive-02-30-35) at http://www.spokentext.net/recordings/arkive

Source: Open Culture