I am sort of amazed at the experience. Although at times text in certain instances depending on the level of provisioning that a particular instructor/institution would put into the preparation for a given course, certain courses could be en par in terms of the depth of course instruction though seemingly course level materials may be tailored around the nature, one should imagine, of a given student/audience body, and mostly I'd mention I've delved around the mathematics, science, and in one particular instance a bio statistical mathematics course...actually this were a sort of signal analysis course relating to interpretation of fMRI data, where the approach to the course is more summary, thus far, and appears likely as to the courses tracking. In a way given the level of material, and nature, since I had taken a signals analysis course before, and having known that application in a given elementary approach might be in many cases a more simplified version of the applied approach to this subject matter. Necessarily computational aids, potentially extended beyond the scope of even free computational mathematics engines would likely entail that some sort of class specific computational software were made accessible, I would likely guess...at least the wolfram alpha website curtails more lengthy and extensive computations from what I've seen if you weren't a professional package consumer. In the case of the signal analysis course, a free in class version of Matlab were provided, and generally given all the manner of primer to using the software were provided as opposed to having the class designate any sort of pre requisite knowledge on using this software. It seems in the case of signal analysis course, I could offer that even with the added expense of having to teach software usage, my overall feeling were that the course were potentially successful. As in the case of actual applied techniques for fMRI, it would seem (into the 3rd week) any sort of applied problem work could be potentially much tougher without some simplification to work and/or course appropriate work loads for problem solving.
Onto the physics side, thus far I've probably been most involved time investment wise in on a given Mechanics course. That being said, I've still generally loved what I've seen, or at least I could offer the feeling of having worked a bit more in terms of problem solving techniques relative to an engineering preparatory dominant college level 1rst or 2nd year undergraduate course, likely leaning more towards 2nd year at least potentially given the potential nature of calculus being employed in the course. Many of the problems it would seem in the case of this course requiring at times, any number of decomposition steps in obtaining a given solution/derivation. This being said, probably in some ways challenging and surprisingly so, I could at least offer at least in grasping concepts to classical mechanics, I feel like the review has refreshed something of knowledge on subject matter here if not outright providing some manner of insight. It would seem on the point of insight grappling with this subject matter were concerned in to the nature of self learning, or in other words, potentially some could take away less while other more depending on their approach to tackling material. By far the stronger points, it seems were the work in these assignments for this course, as opposed to the primer educational materials, or at least maybe it were something lacking on my part for the given course readings?
If one were looking for preparations for any undergraduate level courses, some of the classes actually seem to offer some excellent free source material for gaining foothold and advantage given any level of deficits, although it seems still that outside of certificate options, there wouldn't exactly be any given substitute for a given diploma or degree. For continuing education, or supplemental education in general, and potentially in some areas were certificate related experience were stronger points to one's career as opposed to being strictly based upon traditional academics, online education appears to be excellent from what I've seen so far. Then I think in terms of the added access provided here, a bit in spirit perhaps, like communiversity type educational setting but at least as I've seen typically beyond the formatted scope of even this, this sort of presentation provides a nice academic interface between a given layman's world and popular education in general. At least where this tends to provide demystification say in the arenas of sciences and mathematics, for instance, relative to applied concepts that many should take for granted.
Onto the physics side, thus far I've probably been most involved time investment wise in on a given Mechanics course. That being said, I've still generally loved what I've seen, or at least I could offer the feeling of having worked a bit more in terms of problem solving techniques relative to an engineering preparatory dominant college level 1rst or 2nd year undergraduate course, likely leaning more towards 2nd year at least potentially given the potential nature of calculus being employed in the course. Many of the problems it would seem in the case of this course requiring at times, any number of decomposition steps in obtaining a given solution/derivation. This being said, probably in some ways challenging and surprisingly so, I could at least offer at least in grasping concepts to classical mechanics, I feel like the review has refreshed something of knowledge on subject matter here if not outright providing some manner of insight. It would seem on the point of insight grappling with this subject matter were concerned in to the nature of self learning, or in other words, potentially some could take away less while other more depending on their approach to tackling material. By far the stronger points, it seems were the work in these assignments for this course, as opposed to the primer educational materials, or at least maybe it were something lacking on my part for the given course readings?
If one were looking for preparations for any undergraduate level courses, some of the classes actually seem to offer some excellent free source material for gaining foothold and advantage given any level of deficits, although it seems still that outside of certificate options, there wouldn't exactly be any given substitute for a given diploma or degree. For continuing education, or supplemental education in general, and potentially in some areas were certificate related experience were stronger points to one's career as opposed to being strictly based upon traditional academics, online education appears to be excellent from what I've seen so far. Then I think in terms of the added access provided here, a bit in spirit perhaps, like communiversity type educational setting but at least as I've seen typically beyond the formatted scope of even this, this sort of presentation provides a nice academic interface between a given layman's world and popular education in general. At least where this tends to provide demystification say in the arenas of sciences and mathematics, for instance, relative to applied concepts that many should take for granted.
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