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Imagine being able to re-watch your lectures online when studying for an exam...that would be great.

It is fantastic that such lectures are being put online for the use of anyone.

Imagine being unprivileged enough to be born in a third-world country and not even have a chance to pay your application fee for higher education. If you're bright enough and have Internet access you can still learn from the best and maybe prepare yourself and earn a scholarship in the future.

You can take a very broad definiton of 'third-world country' and this is still true.

Well, it's very common at my university (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno university of technology: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz). We're in the 21st century after all. Lectures are streamed in real-time and also recorded and published later.

Us old folk didn't have the luxury :)

We had barely adequate course notes, sometimes, and thats the way we liked it!

The technology of today is inspiring in the way it can distribute highly valuable information and education to the masses.

At Georgia Tech, they filmed a lot of lectures and you can go back to the library and watch the tapes there. I found it to be one of the best ways to study for an exam. It's funny how the second time you watch a lecture, it all seems so easy to understand.

I'm watching the Gilbert Strang linear algebra course to pick up enough for other classes I am taking. Saves me using up an entire semester for that (I have a tuition benefit which I am using to take one class for semester; so I can take Information Retrieval now instead of taking Linear Algebra and waiting until next Spring.).

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