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Participant[quote=bsrsharma]MIT has free Open Course Ware
on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm%5B/quote%5D
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.Participant[quote=bsrsharma]MIT has free Open Course Ware
on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm%5B/quote%5D
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.Participant[quote=bsrsharma]MIT has free Open Course Ware
on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm%5B/quote%5D
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.Participant[quote=bsrsharma]MIT has free Open Course Ware
on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm%5B/quote%5D
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.Participant[quote=bsrsharma]MIT has free Open Course Ware
on a variety of topics. Anybody can learn for free what MIT students learn after paying six figure tuition!
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm%5B/quote%5D
MIT’s offering is woefully inadequate – most courses lack answer sets, there is no feedback mechanism, chat, user comments.
The name OPEN is in their title, but appears to be in name only, i.e., you have to be MIT material if you hope to get anything out of the class.It came out with great fanfare 10 years ago, but needs someone like Khan to run the place. Yeah, merge Khan Academy into MIT open course and then I could learn from MIT Architecture class – Basic Structural Design. Note there are no notes, lectures, problems, etc. How the heck am I going to design that big fat Greek support column?
Talk about detrimental reliance.ParticipantBusinessweek wrote a piece on him last week.
“Math was something Khan, then 28, understood. It was one of his majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with computer science and electrical engineering. He had gone on to get a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering, also at MIT, and then an MBA from Harvard. He was working in Boston at the time for Daniel Wohl, who ran a hedge fund called Wohl Capital Management. Khan, an analyst, was the only employee.
Less than five years later, Khan’s sideline has turned into more than just his profession. He’s now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. His free website, dubbed the Khan Academy, may well be the most popular educational site in the world. Last month about 2 million students visited. MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, by comparison, has been around since 2001 and averages 1 million visits each month. He has posted more than 2,300 videos, beginning with simple addition and going all the way to subjects such as Green’s theorem, normally found in a college calculus syllabus. He’s adding videos on accounting, the credit crisis, the French Revolution, and the SAT and GMAT, among other things. He masters the subjects himself and then teaches them. As of the end of April, he claims to have served up more than 54 million individual lessons.”
He won’t sell out to McGraw-Hill and Pearson, who know how to con the naive (to be polite) public school textbook officials.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230072816925.htm
ParticipantBusinessweek wrote a piece on him last week.
“Math was something Khan, then 28, understood. It was one of his majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with computer science and electrical engineering. He had gone on to get a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering, also at MIT, and then an MBA from Harvard. He was working in Boston at the time for Daniel Wohl, who ran a hedge fund called Wohl Capital Management. Khan, an analyst, was the only employee.
Less than five years later, Khan’s sideline has turned into more than just his profession. He’s now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. His free website, dubbed the Khan Academy, may well be the most popular educational site in the world. Last month about 2 million students visited. MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, by comparison, has been around since 2001 and averages 1 million visits each month. He has posted more than 2,300 videos, beginning with simple addition and going all the way to subjects such as Green’s theorem, normally found in a college calculus syllabus. He’s adding videos on accounting, the credit crisis, the French Revolution, and the SAT and GMAT, among other things. He masters the subjects himself and then teaches them. As of the end of April, he claims to have served up more than 54 million individual lessons.”
He won’t sell out to McGraw-Hill and Pearson, who know how to con the naive (to be polite) public school textbook officials.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230072816925.htm
ParticipantBusinessweek wrote a piece on him last week.
“Math was something Khan, then 28, understood. It was one of his majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with computer science and electrical engineering. He had gone on to get a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering, also at MIT, and then an MBA from Harvard. He was working in Boston at the time for Daniel Wohl, who ran a hedge fund called Wohl Capital Management. Khan, an analyst, was the only employee.
Less than five years later, Khan’s sideline has turned into more than just his profession. He’s now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. His free website, dubbed the Khan Academy, may well be the most popular educational site in the world. Last month about 2 million students visited. MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, by comparison, has been around since 2001 and averages 1 million visits each month. He has posted more than 2,300 videos, beginning with simple addition and going all the way to subjects such as Green’s theorem, normally found in a college calculus syllabus. He’s adding videos on accounting, the credit crisis, the French Revolution, and the SAT and GMAT, among other things. He masters the subjects himself and then teaches them. As of the end of April, he claims to have served up more than 54 million individual lessons.”
He won’t sell out to McGraw-Hill and Pearson, who know how to con the naive (to be polite) public school textbook officials.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230072816925.htm
ParticipantBusinessweek wrote a piece on him last week.
“Math was something Khan, then 28, understood. It was one of his majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with computer science and electrical engineering. He had gone on to get a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering, also at MIT, and then an MBA from Harvard. He was working in Boston at the time for Daniel Wohl, who ran a hedge fund called Wohl Capital Management. Khan, an analyst, was the only employee.
Less than five years later, Khan’s sideline has turned into more than just his profession. He’s now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. His free website, dubbed the Khan Academy, may well be the most popular educational site in the world. Last month about 2 million students visited. MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, by comparison, has been around since 2001 and averages 1 million visits each month. He has posted more than 2,300 videos, beginning with simple addition and going all the way to subjects such as Green’s theorem, normally found in a college calculus syllabus. He’s adding videos on accounting, the credit crisis, the French Revolution, and the SAT and GMAT, among other things. He masters the subjects himself and then teaches them. As of the end of April, he claims to have served up more than 54 million individual lessons.”
He won’t sell out to McGraw-Hill and Pearson, who know how to con the naive (to be polite) public school textbook officials.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230072816925.htm
ParticipantBusinessweek wrote a piece on him last week.
“Math was something Khan, then 28, understood. It was one of his majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with computer science and electrical engineering. He had gone on to get a master’s in computer science and electrical engineering, also at MIT, and then an MBA from Harvard. He was working in Boston at the time for Daniel Wohl, who ran a hedge fund called Wohl Capital Management. Khan, an analyst, was the only employee.
Less than five years later, Khan’s sideline has turned into more than just his profession. He’s now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. His free website, dubbed the Khan Academy, may well be the most popular educational site in the world. Last month about 2 million students visited. MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, by comparison, has been around since 2001 and averages 1 million visits each month. He has posted more than 2,300 videos, beginning with simple addition and going all the way to subjects such as Green’s theorem, normally found in a college calculus syllabus. He’s adding videos on accounting, the credit crisis, the French Revolution, and the SAT and GMAT, among other things. He masters the subjects himself and then teaches them. As of the end of April, he claims to have served up more than 54 million individual lessons.”
He won’t sell out to McGraw-Hill and Pearson, who know how to con the naive (to be polite) public school textbook officials.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230072816925.htm
Participant[quote=Hobie]Natural gas baby! LPG Patio heaters or BBQ are always running out of tank at the wrong times. Even with spare tanks it is a pain to constantly refill them.
Gas infrared is sweet as you can tuck them within patio covers.
As to the cost, well it’s your party… if mama gets cold then you are outside by yourself, a beer, and the dog. ;)[/quote]
What brand/type have you seen for natural gas?Participant[quote=Hobie]Natural gas baby! LPG Patio heaters or BBQ are always running out of tank at the wrong times. Even with spare tanks it is a pain to constantly refill them.
Gas infrared is sweet as you can tuck them within patio covers.
As to the cost, well it’s your party… if mama gets cold then you are outside by yourself, a beer, and the dog. ;)[/quote]
What brand/type have you seen for natural gas?Participant[quote=Hobie]Natural gas baby! LPG Patio heaters or BBQ are always running out of tank at the wrong times. Even with spare tanks it is a pain to constantly refill them.
Gas infrared is sweet as you can tuck them within patio covers.
As to the cost, well it’s your party… if mama gets cold then you are outside by yourself, a beer, and the dog. ;)[/quote]
What brand/type have you seen for natural gas?Participant[quote=Hobie]Natural gas baby! LPG Patio heaters or BBQ are always running out of tank at the wrong times. Even with spare tanks it is a pain to constantly refill them.
Gas infrared is sweet as you can tuck them within patio covers.
As to the cost, well it’s your party… if mama gets cold then you are outside by yourself, a beer, and the dog. ;)[/quote]
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