Many colleges and universities are now well integrated with the digital world.
Yale, like other post-secondary schools in the U.S., such as MIT and Harvard, offers free online versions of some of the courses taught at the school. The online classes are freely available to anyone with an Internet connection and the desire to access them. Many provide additional materials like lecture notes and assignments to enhance the learning experience. The central feature of the Yale courses is the lecture recordings, which are usually in transcript, audio and video form.
Instructions
1. Go to the Open Yale Courses (oyc.yale.edu) website.
2. Click on a department that interests you from the left-side menu. Click on the names of the courses that appear to direct you to the website's home page for that particular course.
3. Read about the course on the course home page and access various parts of the course by clicking on the different section headers in the left-side menu. Click on "Class Sessions" to access the individual lectures, which is the main feature of the Open Yale Courses website.
4. Click on the name of any of the class sessions to be directed to the page for that class session. To get the most out of the course, it would be a good idea to start with the first class session.
5. Click on "[ html ]" under "Transcript" to access the transcript of that lecture, "[ mp3 ]" under "Audio" to access the audio for that lecture, and any of the links under "Video" to access the video for that lecture. Also pay attention to the "Reading Assignment" section and the "Resources" section at the bottom of the page for supplementary material that may be of benefit when working through that lecture.
6. Continue with successive lectures from the "Class Sessions" page as you complete lectures. As with most colleges and universities, it is up to you to participate in the learning experience.
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