Friday, March 13, 2009

Open Universities

Thailand has its Open University, but the concept started in the UK. My father studied for a Maths Degree at the Open University, about 30 years ago. He would get up early every Sunday morning to watch the programmes on TV, and in those days everything would need to be sent by post. No computers, just snail mail. Nowadays it's instant on the Internet.

You can find the Open University in the UK on the BBC here.

An even better site for all you TOEFL students is this one at Yale University called Open Yale. You can choose which course you're interested in, watch and listen to videos of top class lecturers, and with some you can download the video and the script. Excellent for practicing for the TOEFL.

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