I took a course about
visual arts of architecure department in MIT. Actaully, this course is not related to my major. I have a little interested in architecure, becuase all the bulidings around the world are very different and special. I am curious how they did it. This course did not provide a text of the lecture, so I'm a little hard to really understand the teacher says. From their reading part, I found an art is called puppet that is a specific and important arts for them. Let me think of a fairy tale book is called "The adventure of Pinocchio"(木偶奇遇記).
MIT has a volunteer-based organization that has translated OCW(OpenCourseWare) courses into Traditional Chinese is called Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (
OOPS). This is a very nice organization for me that you can learn the course more clearly. Although translated courses are more former courses, they are enough for me to learn english.
I also surf the Academic Earth website and its interface seems more friendly and comfortable to me, and the video is clear than MIT's. I took a course is called
Operation System of computer science in Berkeley that I am studying in this semester. I feel the PPT's contents are more rich than my professor's, and the lectures are much beautiful than my professor's too! The most important is the professor teachs better than my professor. But it didn't have a text of the lecture, I 'll miss some information.
I observe that oversea professors must introduce theirself at first class, and our professors almost just introduce the course's rule. Our professors feel not freindly. However, through open course ware you can learn any courses that interested you. Learning from open courses might be a trend in the future. Just like it says "Unlocking Knowledge Empowering Minds", but your english ability must be very well. It's hard for me to really understand what the open course taught without translated courses.
