Re: [Phys-L] MOOC: Edx Offers Mechanics course by Prof.Walter Lewin

["D.V.N. Sarma" <dvnsarma@yahoo.co.in>]

It is free.
 
regards,
Sarma.


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From: Andre Adler <andre.adler@gmail.com>
To: Phys-L@Phys-L.org 
Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2013 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Phys-L] MOOC: Edx Offers Mechanics course by Prof.Walter Lewin


What is wrong with charging for it? Nothing - if you have the money.  And it was free. Oh the good old days.  Forgive my nostalgia. One of the great things about the internet.  All those free MIT OpencourseWare courses. 

There is an MIT Opencourseware course by Sanjoy Mahajan, called Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering from Spring 2009. His web page is: http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/.

You can get to the course by going to:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/5-95j-teaching-college-level-science-and-engineering-spring-2009/

It was an NYU student who told me about Lewin years ago - said he was terrific. I started watching and agreed. 

Andre Adler

On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:36 AM, "LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu> wrote:

> Great course! Kind of like the Feynman Lectures - the more you know about physics - the more you appreciate what Lewin does.
>
> What's the problem with charging for it? Do you teach for free? Are your school's classes open to the public?
>
> Bob at PC
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> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Phys-L] MOOC: Edx Offers Mechanics course by Prof.Walter Lewin
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> I saw this course years ago on MIT OpenCourse Ware. It was free. Don't know if it was still there.
>
> Also like his Vibrations and Wave course on Mechanics courses, both of which are or were on MIT Opencourseware.
>
> I guess now people will be charged to view it?
>
> I guess this is now part of Edx to make money?
>
> Oh well….
>
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 7:52 PM, D.V.N. Sarma <dvnsarma@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> > An online offering of Mechanics course 8.01x by Professor Walter Lewin is starting on September 9.
> > I have taken his Electricity and Magnetism online course 8.02x and it was superb.
> >
> > regards,
> > Sarma.
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