Saturday, February 20, 2010

Open Courseware

Colleges all over the world are now putting full courses online for anyone to use. This can be a boon to homeschoolers since college courses are really not that much harder than 5th grade courses--they're just a little more detailed. If you work through them a little slower than an adult would, the materials are often still useful--especially for gifted kids.  This is also a good solution for the problem of "early college or not" for homeschooling parents of the profoundly gifted.

Unfortunately, there isn't a central portal that connects you to these courses by subject rather than by institution. So I'm going to build one. It will take a while, but you will find it here:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddssdqrh_118g4cdkzhb

I am not ambitious enough to index by individual courses (MIT alone offers 1900), but I will connect you to the subjects, and then you'll have to sort through the individual courses at each institution on your own!

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