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Originally Posted by Azure
Nothing in particular. Obviously, because I work with computers/networks....anything based around computer science/programming is a big plus, but if I'm going to further my education in those specific areas, I'll be taking an actual course.
I have a general interest in political sciences, economics, history, certain sciences, kinesiology, etc.
I was actually searching for some online courses, and I noticed that some universities offer video lectures for free. I don't have the time to actually do the handouts, the assignments, etc that they offer, but I can watch the lectures. So I was just wondering if there are any other sites on the internet that offer lectures of any kind free for download.
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Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what about lectures do you find particularly interesting? Learning acadamia type knowledge (spintronics, game theory, Fraud, cell biology, et al) or the ideas that come from this knowledge?
I seem to have lost the "wow" factor to new ideas unless there is something that is really, really mind blowing or earth shattering. Fundamentally, everything seems so rudimentary. The last idea I found really really cool was Siftables on TED. (i.e. Authors@Google have some great ideas out there ranging from psych to poli sci, but there's nothing there that makes me take a step back and go "wow, now that is really cool"). Before that, a true random number generator that could be directed to a certain range of numbers; since then, its been 2 years since I got an actual "wow"