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CalChris 15 hours 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.
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orsenthil 15 hours ago [-]
Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
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).
mparnisari 3 hours ago [-]
I got 404s on some, and then one I recall was a 1-page PDF that had links to buy off amazon >_<
shostack 15 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.
teliosix 8 hours ago [-]
This is just an excuse for not learning and getting it done.
You do have a way to upload to your brain, it is just a slow bandwidth connection that takes time.
If you don't have time you have to make time by not reading the news, not reading social media, not watching stupid videos.
helterskelter 15 hours 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.
j5dgx76 12 hours ago [-]
Not just a limit. Different people have different personalities. And different subjects have specific mechanism required for mastery(eg Surgery vs Philosophy). So different people fit different learning mechanisms. Then the problem is about awareness of where you fit and skill at coordination with others who fit elsewhere.
CaptWorld 15 hours 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?
naishoya 13 hours ago [-]
Start taking notes.
dartharva 15 hours 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.
helterskelter 13 hours ago [-]
Actually, some of the research they base their advice on was performed on elementary school students, and college classrooms which had poor attendance; ie, not the most engaged students. 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 3. 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.
yorwba 12 hours ago [-]
Yes, if you have something like a classroom setting with a teacher who can just tell students to do things, that can serve as an external motivator for students who lack intrinsic motivation otherwise.
But when you just grab a pile of learning resources off the internet, the teacher doesn't come included. You need to be at least motivated enough to become your own teacher, or else find a way to have someone else supervise your self-study.
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
wodenokoto 15 hours ago [-]
A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)
S04dKHzrKT 15 hours 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.
AlexeyBrin 14 hours 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.
aanet 13 hours ago [-]
Have the LLMs digested these courses already?
If so, How would we evaluate that claim ?
terrycody 14 hours ago [-]
I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
gabrielsroka 14 hours ago [-]
Search for "computer science". I found several CS50...
goodboyjojo 12 hours ago [-]
i remember finding this site awhile ago. they also have a list of cool podcasts to listen to
cadamsdotcom 13 hours 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.
insane_dreamer 12 hours ago [-]
too many ads on this page, and the links go to more pages with ads and mostly to a website that only has "samples" of the courses for free
a repository of free online courses would be great, but despite the good intentions, this site is not it
Unfortunately, the promise of free online university courses is a thing of a the past. EDX and Coursera got bought out and are now money-making online ed sites.
mmooss 15 hours ago [-]
How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.
https://archive.org/details/stanford_itunesu/
^^ Good resource for textbooks
That page was taking over 6GB
- 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.
Sorry, I'm still reading this book right now and it's super interesting.
But when you just grab a pile of learning resources off the internet, the teacher doesn't come included. You need to be at least motivated enough to become your own teacher, or else find a way to have someone else supervise your self-study.
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.
a repository of free online courses would be great, but despite the good intentions, this site is not it
Unfortunately, the promise of free online university courses is a thing of a the past. EDX and Coursera got bought out and are now money-making online ed sites.