Free Online College Courses

[dalthauser]

In my latest issue of Bottomline Health there was an article on How to Cut Your Risk for Alzheimer's - by Half.  One of the suggestions is to adopt a "back-to-school" attitude.  One of their suggestions there........

You can study a wide variety of subjects, ranging from pure science and the humanities to architecture and engineering, by enrolling in one of the 1,800 free college-level on-line classes offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

I was like - wow!!  

Free continuing education, and you don't have to travel to some run down elementry school and sit at creaky desks with gum stuck to the bottom.

I went to the website they'd given, and it was a bad link.... so I googled it - and got the correct web address.

This is pretty - no very cool!

MIT OpenCourseWare

Comments

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

cool... thank you!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

I'm going to find one to take. The books are kind of pricey, but I probably can find them used etc. It will be good for me to work my brain in an actual "class". I'm thinking Intro to Anthropology (though the witchcraft course would be facinating - I'm very interested in the Wiccans and their beliefs - same for Native Americans)

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

wooo, twins separated at birth?!? I thought the SAME thing... the medical anthropology or some anthro and the witch one... I probably won't do it for a while if I do tho'...

[ex-kitschyhi349.livejournal.com]

That is super cool. Thanks! :)

[reyvin.livejournal.com]

I thought Alzheimers was a genetic thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Partially. Many studies are showing that keeping the mind (and to some extent body) active helps prevent (or at the very least stalls the onset) of Alzheimers. Brain games, learning new things, changing routines, daily exercise. I'll post some stuff later.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Anthropology would be very interesting!

You must have passed their intelligence test - first find their site!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

lol