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CalChris•42 minutes ago

The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.

orsenthil•26 minutes ago

Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?

alephnerd•16 minutes ago

They are available on archive.org - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ITunes_U

CalChris•9 minutes ago

Thanks. Stanford's archive seems to be one big 296.2G blob. But it's there at least.

https://archive.org/details/stanford_itunesu/

wodenokoto•36 minutes ago

A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)

mparnisari•about 1 hour ago

https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category

mym1990•about 1 hour ago

When you say they didn't work, what does that mean? Opened 10-20 and they all opened as a PDF or a webpage(albeit some don't have HTTPS certificates).

S04dKHzrKT•28 minutes ago

If anyone responsible for the site's CSS happens to see this, the fixed height in pixels of #header causes the nav bar links to be partially obscured making them more difficult to click. My current window's width is 1600.

shostack•about 1 hour ago

There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.

pastel8739•25 minutes ago

Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment

helterskelter•39 minutes ago

The book Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is helpful. tl;dr of it is:

- lots of low-stakes quizzing and practice

- spaced repetition

- reflect on what you've learned and what you could do better next time, and apply these lessons in different contexts

- interleave practice of different but related topics

- try to solve a problem before being taught the solution

- distill the underlying principles to different problems

- remember that if learning is easy, you probably aren't engaging you brain very much

This will help streamline the process, but obviously there's just a limit to what you can take in.

CaptWorld•29 minutes ago

Very good tips.. I always mess up when doing spaced repetition since I don't take notes, I try to re-read the whole previous material in the book again and I get demotivated that I have to read all that so that I remember all the previous material. Do you know a way to get out of this habit?

dartharva•27 minutes ago

All these things presume actual interest and savviness about the topic present in the student beforehand, which is precisely what most students that struggle with studies lack.

helterskelter•about 1 hour ago

https://openstax.org/higher-education

^^ Good resource for textbooks

terrycody•23 minutes ago

I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.

mmooss•27 minutes ago

How are these selected for inclusion? I don't understand the point of this list.

ai_slop_hater•35 minutes ago

People don't go to universities for courses

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