🧵 Open Source Education
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:13:07 UTC No. 16070729
Do you guys use youtube videos or free online courses to learn anything? There was a few years where a ton of content was available for free but then they paywalled everything and youtube ruined their search functionality to only show based boy I LUV SCIENCE trash. Is it still a thing? I had my own website like 10 years ago that listed high value organic chemistry youtube videos because it was impossible to search for but I let it die.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:29:52 UTC No. 16070756
Openstax is the best remedial service for math and science that a brainlet should have learned in middle and high school. There is way better open source stuff for more advanced content but if you see somebody struggling with precalc because they didn't learn algebra 1, shill openstax to them. It is the best content in the entire remedial tier.
I have been posting it as a reply to brainlets and then hiding the thread I posted in since 2019 and there are now only about two thirds as many posters who can't do trigonometry.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:30:54 UTC No. 16070760
>>16070729
Only as a last resort when the covered material is otherwise unavailable. It's stupidly inconvenient to read the slides (or code) and subtitles at the same time.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:07:28 UTC No. 16070921
>>16070760
>Only as a last resort when the covered material is otherwise unavailable.
interesting. I remember taking calculus and differential equations courses and I felt like the provided material was pure trash. I had to watch youtube videos to understand what was going on. Maybe most people who care enough to really put in the work just read the book and are studious enough they don't need extra materials?
I've been browsing through some open source education websites and they seem like ghost towns. Shit. I thought I had a good idea for a project but maybe no one would use it.