Are you aware of Open Yale Courses? (Free lecture videos)

[AestheticGod]

Found this while searching for random stuff on Google. http://oyc.yale.edu/chemistry/chem-125a#sessions

It's basically every class/lecture done in a specific course by a specific teacher. They recorded each lecture and uploaded it online (including syllabus+exams), for free.

I would say a lot of students could most likely use this to their advantage by watching all the videos before attending a class that they KNOW they will have a hard time (organic chemistry). The video quality is very good, but most important thing is that it has EVERY lecture there.

It's 37 videos, each video being 1 hour long. Basically 37 hours worth of lectures lol. I could see myself cramming all of these videos in a week time (summer) before my organic chem 1 course in fall.

I'm just not sure on how well the lectures and/or materials will differ from the course YOU will take in YOUR university.


EDIT: ok, maybe they don't have a wide variety of videos (they didn't start this long ago, and it takes a whole semester of video taping to upload ONE course), but they have organic chemistry 1 & 2!

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[gettheleadout]

Also MIT Open Course Ware.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

 

[AestheticGod]

Also MIT Open Course Ware.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Ya, i knew about theirs. I don't really like the MIT course videos (granted, they have a shiit load more then yale), because not all of them have videos and good quality videos.

Still an A+ website.

 

[Koosalagoosagoo]

I thought this was basic chemistry and was like lolwut, but then I saw it was organic which I wont take till next year...

 

[mmmmd]

Online learning solutions are taking off, and I like it. Keeping my eyes and ears open about MIT & Harvard's "edX" project.

I've used MIT OCW to augment my learning in many math, computer, and chemistry courses. They have elegant explanations of the most complicated concepts.

Haven't used Yale yet. Thanks for the heads up 👍.

 

[JESSFALLING]

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[AestheticGod]

Online learning solutions are taking off, and I like it. Keeping my eyes and ears open about MIT & Harvard's "edX" project.

I've used MIT OCW to augment my learning in many math, computer, and chemistry courses. They have elegant explanations of the most complicated concepts.

Haven't used Yale yet. Thanks for the heads up 👍.

Thanks for sharing this.

Not a problem. If you want you can also check out http://www.khanacademy.org/

That website has A LOT more subjects and starts from the bottom up.

 

[Koosalagoosagoo]

Since I am starting organic chemistry next fall semester would it be better to buy the book "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language" or just go through some of the videos on organic chemistry from Khanacademy this summer?

 

[jf1987]

http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity/videos?view=1

Also Stanford.

 

[Pretzel12]

There's also this site.
https://www.coursera.org/penn

 

[AestheticGod]

Since I am starting organic chemistry next fall semester would it be better to buy the book "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language" or just go through some of the videos on organic chemistry from Khanacademy this summer?

That's what I plan on doing for every class I take. So far working out pretty nicely.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Since I am starting organic chemistry next fall semester would it be better to buy the book "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language" or just go through some of the videos on organic chemistry from Khanacademy this summer?

To be honest all of these are supplementary aids. It works best to do it along with the lecture/class as to elucidate areas that you don't fully understand or haven't practiced enough.

 

[xXIDaShizIXx]

These videos make me realize how crappy my professors were.😀

 

[Knocked Up]

MIT's is still by far the best.

All of these open courseware videos really get me thinking. What was the point of undergrad if I could have just sat at home for four years and watched these videos. Most of these professors (particularly the Physics professor from MIT) are far better than my professors were.

 

[DAPI]

Go check out iTunesU. It has all of this in one convenient place for basically all the universities that do stuff like this.

 

[ur2l8]

Search academicearth. You're welcome

 

[hopeful22213]

Go check out iTunesU. It has all of this in one convenient place for basically all the universities that do stuff like this.

+1. An amazing resource. You can search by subject- say, Orgo 1- and then compare the quality of the material and lecturer to then decide which 'course' you prefer.

They have stuff ranging from intro level college courses up through material aimed at medical students.

 

[virtuoso735]

Freshman Orgo at Yale is quite different from a standard orgo class. At Yale, we have freshman orgo (designed for freshmen) and "regular" orgo, which the majority of students take as sophomores after taking the general chemistry sequence. The one in the open course is freshman orgo and it's much more theoretical than the "regular" orgo sequence, or so I've heard from people who have taken it.

 

[neurotroph]

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[leeyuhang]

Go check out iTunesU. It has all of this in one convenient place for basically all the universities that do stuff like this.

its fun to listen to other professors lecture on the same subject. very helpful and fun to learn from.