One of Harvard's Computer Science classes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet," has seen a massive fanfare from putting class lectures up as podcasts. Since making the lectures available as both audio and video podcasts via iTunes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet" Podcast has made the jump to the top 100 podcasts and the "New-and-Notable" list on iTunes. And damnit, there's bragging rights in that!Somehow I can't see this as being a good tool for a "Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming" but for a low(er) level class like this, it's perfect. Just do a search for it on iTunes.
1. Why not? After all, they might just be able to finally deliver something which is understandable enough for me to get knowledge about it. :)
On the other hand, many professors give out their presentations, one could look at that too. But for me as a person who can more eady understand than gather knowledge through reading, I might find this more interesting than somebody who is more into it visually.
I am just hoping that many more courses follow - not only from tech, but especially from other departments.
Posted at 7:53PM on Nov 27th 2005 by Nicole Simon