“To demonstrate, Humes brings up a video presentation in which a disheveled and highly animated professor, Walter Lewin, is demonstrating how an EKG test works. First of all, he's a great speaker. He does demonstrations. We never had that. Our class was all tedious derivations. Every day he impressed the heck out of me. He relates it all to things you know. Look at these kids laughing. They give him a standing ovation at the end of each lecture! We never had a moment of levity in our class.
Humes was so stoked by the physics class that he also reviewed the OpenCourseWare version of calculus and has since moved on to linear algebra. Now he prepares for exams at Murray State by practicing with OpenCourseWare quizzes covering the same material. ”I do fine and feel great, and then when I take my test the problems are easier,“ he says. ”There's a lot of satisfaction that comes from being able to understand the MIT classes.“
”Check this out,“ he says, clicking to an early lecture in linear algebra. Soon he is transfixed by the famous mathematician Gilbert Strang. He finally turns to me, displaying the most amazing grin - that of someone who's just discovered the joys of learning.
It's a Nobel Prize-worthy grin.
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Next to Gutenburg and Bibliomania, OCW is where I spend most of my online time when I get bored with aimless surfing.
Hey, I would have thought hits from india would be up there among the top three. Looks like not many of our universities are wired and not many of lecturers know. Next time you come across an engineering student / lecturer, ask him/her whether he knows about OCW.