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53 of the best Harvard University courses you can take online for free [mashable.com]:

"Yep, you could become a student of Harvard University without spending anything (and without leaving home). You can find Harvard courses on everything from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity with edX, so what are you waiting for? There isn't a catch here, besides the fact that you won't get a certificate of completion with these free courses. But don't let that hold you back."

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· The Health Effects of Climate Change
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Yale has a lot of free courses as well.

https://online.yale.edu/courses?f...wMode=grid
Just waiting on my neurolink data port then I'll absorb this knowledge…
This isn't a new offering, but awareness is always a good thing. There are more classes available than are listed in the op - a total of 151. Here's a direct link to all of Harvard's free courses:

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free?page=1

If you've ever heard of auditing a class - that's exactly what this is. You get the knowledge, but you don't take tests or get actual credit. It's like sitting in the classroom as an observer, but the advantage of it being online is that the courses are self-paced. You do have to pay, IF you want a certificate verifying that you took the class.

Many colleges and universities offer similar programs. Googling "free Harvard courses" brought up the link above. Substitute "Harvard" with the name of the school you're interested in to see if they offer a similar program.

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SumDuud
05-06-2024 at 08:32 PM.
05-06-2024 at 08:32 PM.
Quote from EfficientBird540 :
Garbage. If it's the same as the actual courses at Harvard then you would get a certificate.

If you don't get a certificate unless you pay then the information is garbage and you are just paying for a degree.

Free educations is great but either give the cert free for completing or don't claim it's the same as a Harvard course.
You have a pretty narrow view. Personal and professional development doesn't have to come with a certificate; it may help but you're going to pay for the cert. Training yourself and bettering yourself for free, that you can apply and make yourself more valuable with experience and demonstration is huge. I interviewed multiple people today for a technology job, I gave zero cares about their education or certificates (HR may when negotiating pay but I don't as the project manager). What I care about is their experience and being able to talk through scenarios to demonstrate that they know what they are talking about. That is what free courses like this can help with. In technology, if you aren't training and expanding your skills then you are getting left behind.
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05-06-2024 at 08:44 PM.
05-06-2024 at 08:44 PM.
Quote from gamingdroid :
The problem is the cost they charge isn't commensurate with the work it takes to produce the content.

Do you feel textbooks on say Calculus should cost as much as they do?

It's not like how Calculus works has changed suddenly, right?

Mind you that education is considered a common good. Educated people are more valuable to society. They.ideally will make better decisions, require less government support and pay more taxes, due to higher earnings.

That's as opposed to fattening filthy rich universities that has massive endowment exceed major corporations.
Yeah I read that only 10% of Harvard income is from students, most come from donations and grants. So it seems that students may not be the priority there. I remember my calc textbooks being $120 and that was the early 90's. The issue at least as I recall I had a number of professors who wrote the books and they would come out with new editions every year and of course you couldn't use a used one. That was back in the day. I certainly lived through the fleecing and the value perhaps is not what it used to be and there is a need for disruption and colleges should be taxed like corporations because they are.
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05-06-2024 at 08:46 PM.
05-06-2024 at 08:46 PM.
Does this provide an edu account?
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psuvette
05-06-2024 at 08:52 PM.
05-06-2024 at 08:52 PM.
Quote from ellemdee :
This isn't a new offering, but awareness is always a good thing. There are more classes available than are listed in the op - a total of 151. Here's a direct link to all of Harvard's free courses:

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free?page=1

If you've ever heard of auditing a class - that's exactly what this is. You get the knowledge, but you don't take tests or get actual credit. It's like sitting in the classroom as an observer, but the advantage of it being online is that the courses are self-paced. You do have to pay, IF you want a certificate verifying that you took the class.

Many colleges and universities offer similar programs. Googling "free Harvard courses" brought up the link above. Substitute "Harvard" with the name of the school you're interested in to see if they offer a similar program.

Is it useful to pay to get the certificate? They don't provide credits in return?
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05-06-2024 at 09:52 PM.
05-06-2024 at 09:52 PM.
Quote from ratbastard :
You know what would be awesome? If they made education free all the time? The increased innovation, productivity, and efficiency would make up for the cost easily. Learn if you want or don't, but education should be a right, not a privilege.
So are you gonna enslave teachers or...?
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05-07-2024 at 05:01 AM.
05-07-2024 at 05:01 AM.
Harvard Grad here. Great school. Boston is a great city to grow up in.
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05-07-2024 at 05:35 AM.
05-07-2024 at 05:35 AM.
Quote from WooHoo2You :
Now, I never said "blueprints" (in this thread) however I have had heard many PE's call plans blueprints so I don't personally think the term is off limits. Part of the industry vernacular, especially in the South. Most of them are aging out of the industry though. Not surprising being most plans haven't been blue for decades.
They haven't been blue in decades. And now they aren't even prints. I'd say 90% of everything is PDFs.

Another decade or two and it will all be AI generated plans.
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05-07-2024 at 05:45 AM.
05-07-2024 at 05:45 AM.
Quote from DealzRGood4U :
Yale has a lot of free courses as well.

https://online.yale.edu/courses?f...wMode=grid [yale.edu]
Yale has many too and they're all utter garbage, just from the topics. And the images are also blurry af, taken in 2001 with a potatocam.

Hard NO!
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05-07-2024 at 05:46 AM.
05-07-2024 at 05:46 AM.
Quote from umrdyldo :
They haven't been blue in decades. And now they aren't even prints. I'd say 90% of everything is PDFs.

Another decade or two and it will all be AI generated plans.
Not another generation, in two years. Watch...
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05-07-2024 at 05:48 AM.
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Quote from Moustachio95 :
Not another generation, in two years. Watch...
Yeah I can feel the path that we are headed. Not sure a lot of firms are ready for it.
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05-07-2024 at 06:14 AM.
05-07-2024 at 06:14 AM.
There should be a course for people on how not to get trapped into those scam calls allowing the thieves to steal money from your bank.
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05-07-2024 at 06:52 AM.
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Quote from umrdyldo :
They haven't been blue in decades. And now they aren't even prints. I'd say 90% of everything is PDFs.

Another decade or two and it will all be AI generated plans.
I know they haven't been blue in decades (BTW I have actually seen some "blue" plans within the last few years)...but many people still call them blueprints regardless...even if PDF or TIF form. Words don't tend to drop out of the vernacular overnight. Sometimes you just need to take old terms and phrases with a grain of salt. Not all of us have to be a carbon copy of one another to communicate effectively. Gatekeeping over word choice serves no purpose Wink

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Another decade or two and it will all be AI generated plans.
A majority of residential and commercial P&S jobs are just boilerplate (LOL....) plans copied and pasted (wow these old terms just keep coming!) from other jobs. AI might be a step up actually. Much of the software engineering firms use already does most of the work on the backend anyway.
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05-07-2024 at 08:36 AM.
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Quote from WooHoo2You :
Words don't tend to drop out of the vernacular overnight. Sometimes you just need to take old terms and phrases with a grain of salt. Not all of us have to be a carbon copy of one another to communicate effectively. Gatekeeping over word choice serves no purpose Wink

Right. People still say "roll down the window", when most people haven't manually rolled down a car window in decades.
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Quote from umrdyldo :
Yeah I can feel the path that we are headed. Not sure a lot of firms are ready for it.

Just like they weren't ready for every employee having a smart phone resulting in reduced productivity.
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Right. People still say "roll down the window", when most people haven't manually rolled down a car window in decades.
Shut the front door!
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