Education mobility

/ * This post reflects my judgment on today's education and teaching methods. I'm not trying to advertise any of the services mentioned here, I just want to share my idea about now days education, which in the past helped me to organize my time correctly * /

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Most people use public transportation. Let's think about how much time we are wasting, jostling in the train / subway / bus, etc. I’ll tell you about my situation: I live in the suburbs, went to a university in Moscow 6/7 days a week. Approximate travel time to the university: 15 minutes by minibus + 30 minutes by train + 20 minutes on foot = 65 minutes, we multiply by two (go home too), we have ~ 130 minutes of absolutely lost time.

How to spend time profitably?


So, we have approximately 130 minutes of free time per day (I think everyone understands why it is free). For a student (at least physical education) this is a disaster. Realizing all this, I thought, “Nooo, man, things won’t go, let's do something interesting,” and a solution was found!
In the course of my studies, I often use the iPad as a working tool (books, graphics, part of the lectures, etc.). One day, after talking with a student older course that also lives far from the university, I found out that he decides problemmu 130 minutes of service the iTunes the U . Of course, I had heard about this service before, but after my friend's enthusiastic exclamations about the benefits of this service, I also decided to ask more seriously about it.

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So, this icon was opened for me as the treasured Eldorado of knowledge. This service offers you great freedom of choice. You can study almost everything: from oratory and the history of the English language to computer science and atomic physics. It so happened that in the summer I needed to learn a lot of algorithms, almost starting from scratch. Using the beautiful book Algorithms: Construction and Analysis, I realized that this is still not enough and you need to listen to something. One day, looking at courses in iTunes U came across a course on Algorithms from MIT. A quick look at the description made it clear that the course was made entirely from the book!
What is attractive about this service:
1) Mobility- if you have any device from Apple with a diagonal of 3.5 ', you can listen to courses everywhere!
2) Data synchronization between all devices.
3) The presence of a large number of interesting courses in good quality from the largest universities in the world.
4) Everything is absolutely free !

Language is English only. This may cause some learning difficulties, but in general, if you watch technical lectures, the lecturers' pronunciation is quite clear (even among Americans), so a foreigner is quite understandable + of course, good courses have pdf slides from lectures (something like abstracts) ) It is also nice to have an American Apple ID, because there are likely to be more courses in the American service.
Even if you do not have any device from Apple, this does not stop you from studying at all. You just download the iTunes client on your PC, go to iTunes U and do the same.

Total


130 minutes - almost two lectures from cs193 . Of course, everyone chooses how to spend this time, but agree that throwing time to nothing is a pity.
A small list of interesting courses:
iOS Dev
Algorithms: Building and Analysis
Brain structure

Link to the official description of the service

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