Study at MIT for Free

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind

I'm always looking for online courses and classes. But most of the time, they're unaffordable. So I was really excited to find out that MIT - that's right, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - offers free online courses in everything from aeronautics to urban studies. These are not degree-granting or certificate-granting courses. And you will not have access to the MIT faculty.

According to the web site, MIT OpenCourseWare is "a large-scale, Web-based publication of the educational materials from the MIT faculty's courses." Learners are given access to the class "syllabi, lecture notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, even a selection of video lectures..." These come from 1,550 MIT classes in 34 departments. The goal of OpenCourseWare is to include material from virtually all courses taught at MIT by 2008.

I'm thinking of taking the class in American Women Authors. How about you?