Jun 03 2008

Now we’re all Trinity students

Published by Karlin at 11:08 am under internet,podcasts

I see that TCD is the first Irish university to start offering lecture audio etc via iTunes. Excellent! I think the availability of university content in this way has been one of the simply fantastic developments online -- it's giving university extension classes, and lifelong education opportunities, to anyone with a computer. And it's a lot easier than what I used to do. When I was an undergraduate in the University of California, I used to occasionally  attend classes I wasn't actually enrolled in -- not smaller classes where you'd be noticed, of course, but the large lecture intro classes where you'd easily blend in to the masses (thus avoiding having to pay to audit the class). It allowed me to take the entire year of art history (History of Western Art) for example, incognito, without using up one of my allotments for the maximum number of classes I could take per term, and I could relax and enjoy the lectures without having to cram for exams. That information was priceless when I did the backpack-through-Europe trip the year after I graduated, enriching every visit to a museum, a church, a public square, a gallery. I've watched the gradual increase in college content via iTunes with some delight and am off to go find some free 'classes' to attend incognito again. This is the Trinity selection.

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    You might also be interested in this: MIT have put up full materials for a couple of hundred courses. Good stuff.

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