Monday, May 29, 2006

MIT Open Course Ware

Education is a very big investment. Especially, if you want to study in the high reputation university (you can include the Ivy Leaque Schools in your consideration), you might end up with paying more than $40,000 per year. But if you are just be able to afford for an average-cost university like me :P , what do you expect from its quality? it is an interesting issue for me so far. The educational dilemma of preferring high quality school with low cost has been my concern all the time. Until recently, I found an interesting website from MIT which is called "Open Course Ware", which opens to the public to search for a supplemental material in ones' field of study (Of course for me is Economics and Politics). This web has some courses that are very helpful in Science and Social Science (not all subjects though, sorry guys if you can't find any subject in your interests). This might be considered as a educational philanthropist. So I'd would say I will be enjoy to be a educational freerider while other MIT students pay for me. Everybody feels free to join!

1 Comments:

At 8:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I find the Open Course at MIT very useful too.

About the cost and quality of education, this is a complicated story. Having witnessed first-handed about those who got an offer but struggled to find a way to pay for it. (I was on an interview panel for students' assistantship). Will share some of the story on my blog soon.

 

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