r/MadeMeSmile • u/n8saces • May 28 '25

Good News Harvard for the win

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u/Long_Violinist_7036 May 28 '25

This is what I was thinking. Or maybe the difference is that these are in person classes where you can interact with the lecturer face to face...now that would be awesome.

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u/Mutjny May 28 '25

They're not.

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u/Practical_Actuary_87 May 28 '25

Yea, I'm confused by the publicity this move got. MIT OpenCourseWare has been going on for at least 10 years? Same thing right? I just assumed a lot of the top tech and ivy league collegse in the US had this sort of thing

Hell, I've seen people with Harvard certs on my linkedin who didn't go to the local top colleges in my country - which is honestly not hard to do, and not more expensive than the ones they went to

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u/Mutjny May 28 '25

Makes good PR with Trump lashing out at Harvard, but doesn't mean much.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

it means a lot if they are opening access to even a single new course

it's certainly more than you've ever done

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u/Mutjny May 28 '25

Yeah I'm not a college, dummy.

As others have said, they've already done this, other colleges have already done this, and you don't get any credit for them.