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Open Culture points out that Stanford is moving beyond posting lectures to iTunes U and have now made a full course available to the public. The course is The Literature of Crisis which is a once week lecture you can download.

I’m not really convinced that people who aren’t enrolled in these free courses actually benefit from them. It seems to me that they are useful for others who are teaching similar courses for poaching ideas or using the podcasts as resources. It’s too much work and there is no context for someone to just listen to the lectures and do the reading on their own. Some people will do it, and some lectures might be worth listening to, but in general, I think most of this stuff is a big deal about nothing. Putting your course materials online isn’t the same as making the course available to anyone. It’s not the same and it’s not enough.

Open Culture points out that Stanford is moving beyond posting lectures to iTunes U and have now made a full course available to the public. The course is The Literature of Crisis which is a once week lecture you can download.

I’m not really convinced that people who aren’t enrolled in these free courses actually benefit from them. It seems to me that they are useful for others who are teaching similar courses for poaching ideas or using the podcasts as resources. It’s too much work and there is no context for someone to just listen to the lectures and do the reading on their own. Some people will do it, and some lectures might be worth listening to, but in general, I think most of this stuff is a big deal about nothing. Putting your course materials online isn’t the same as making the course available to anyone. It’s not the same and it’s not enough.