Get a free online education!

Some my already be familier with this, but I ran into it watching 60 Minutes. This guy has degrees in math, electrical engineering, and computer science from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard. He's developed free online lectures in all kinds of subjects, from beginning through college level. It's pretty interesting to watch a few, and I wish we had this when I was in school!

You can watch on Youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

The main site is here, where you can track your progress:

http://www.khanacademy.org/

As one example, here are a few brain teasers he walks you through...

http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy#p/c/4DD9C4B87E960720/0/69rDtSpshAw (takes about 25 seconds for writing to start on the screen)

I believe the internet will be a major game changer in how we educate ourselves.

Yes, I think it already is. I have learned a lot of things on the Internet that I probably could not have found in a library. Not that libraries are not still very useful, but for a quick lookup of something, the Internet is hard to beat.

And, as the OP noted, you can also get much more in depth education on the Internet, frequently with on line assistance to answer questions.

The Internet makes 'continuing education' truly feasible.

Thanks for that link, I saved it. I think MIT has some online free courses too. <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href=" 285bound.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=139&t=10096 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">viewtopic.php?f=139&t=10096<!-- l -->

Now if we could come up with legitimate standard tests to prove competency in these subjects, maybe we could reduce the cost of higher ed?