For All the Geeks Out There

[Spirrow]

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

700+ free online courses offered by top universities around the world. You can download these video and audio files to absorb on your own time. There are several art & art history courses, and under "Urban Studies" there is one entitled "Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry," being offered by MIT.

Seriously. There is a course called "Exposing Digital Photography" from Harvard. It's free. It's Harvard. And it's punny.

I'm super geeked to get started. Thought I would share.

[Breigh]

Oh cool! I'm currently taking a free online guitar course from Berklee, I was hoping I'd find a free photography course as well. I'll have a look. Thanks!

[Huda Morcos]

Amazing, thanks for sharing.

[Jani M]

no more boredom at work! :) Thank you!

[Jocasta]

Fantastic- thanks for that link - just spent half an hour at Harvard.

[Frida]

Thanks Spirrow! Saw this somewhere a while ago and posted it but never got around to doing any of it, they have some fabulous writing and literature ones too. I am geeked as well now that I have zero time :))))

[Kathryn]

I did one on game theory through Yale that was really good. You just hvave to be careful who you tell these things too, people arleady think I'm nerdy.

I got distracted reading this: http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/humans_of_new_york_street_photography_as_a_celebration_of_life.html

[Carla]

How aweseome -- I'm going to check this out.

[Johanna]

Whee, I've got to check this out soon. :) Perhaps also something for the rainy summer vacation days... Yay, free knowledge! Thanks for sharing!

[Spirrow]

@breigh Good for you - sounds awesome! Hope you find what you need :)

[Spirrow]

@hudamor Sure thing, Huda :)

[Spirrow]

@janim No problema - it's not like we're expected to do any work at our jobs anymore :)

[Spirrow]

@jocasta Doesn't that have such a nice ring to it? "Sorry, I couldn't do my chores, Mom - I was at Harvard all day." :)

[Spirrow]

@frida Oh yes, I'm drooling over the literature & language courses :) The biggest problem for me right now is choosing which ones I'll be doing first.

I wonder, since you're short on time - maybe you can download an audio file and, for instance, listen to it in the car?

[Spirrow]

@aponi Awesome, thank you for sharing! This site has so much rich info and resources it's impossible not to get distracted. I know what you mean about telling certain people - I've considered putting a disclaimer on my forehead before I meet anyone :)

[Spirrow]

@vase Hope you find something of use :)

[Spirrow]

Yay, free knowledge, indeed! And language courses aaaaaaall over the place!!! Now I get to say, "I'm taking a German course at Cambridge." :D

A certain free ebook I have to share with you: http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/
I do believe you're right about those rainy summer vacation days :) Am I correct to presume, then, that your school doesn't use a year-round curriculum?