MIT's Open Course Ware initiative is awesome. Not easy reading but endlessly captivating. As described in one of their mailings:
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is a large-scale, Web-based publishing initiative with the goal of providing free, searchable access to MIT course materials for educators, students, and individual learners around the world. These materials are offered in a single, searchable structure spanning all of MIT's academic disciplines, and include uniform metadata about the contents of the individual subject sites.
Okay, the 'uniform metadata' is a bit of unneeded geekspeak, but that doesn't detract from the value of the site. Its terrific stuff. Here's a sample of their most recent course additions:
Course 1.89 - Environmental Microbiology, Fall 2004
Course 1.964 - Design for Sustainability, Fall 2004
Course 2.854 - Manufacturing Systems I, Fall 2004
Course 4.602 - Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004
Course 4.491 - Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop, Fall 2004
Course 6.270 - Autonomous Robert Design Competition, IAP 2005
Course 6.881 - Natural Language Processing, Fall 2004
Course 6.892 - Computational Models of Discourse, Spring 2004
Course 8.01T - Physics I, Fall 2004
Course 9.01 - Introduction to Neuroscience, Fall 2004
Course 9.56J - Abnormal Language, Fall 2004
Course 10.675J - Computational Quantum Mechanics of Molecular and Extended Systems, Fall 2004
Course 10.492-2 - Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I: Introduction to Biocatalysis, Fall 2004
Course 11.947 - Race, Immigration, and Planning, Spring 2005
Course 12.808 - Introduction to Observational Physical Oceanography, Fall 2004
Course 13.400 - Introduction to Naval Architecture, Fall 2004
Course 15.969 - Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business, Fall 2004
Course 16.07 - Dynamics, Fall 2004
Very, very cool.
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