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Schooled
Filed Sunday, March 9 2008.

While Will Hunting may think an Ivy League degree is "$150,000 wasted on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library," it turns out, he's wrong. By now, in fact, you don't even need the buck fifty. Because as of a few months back, Yale has put a handful of its best-loved courses online.

I've been taking advantage myself for the past week or two, downloading sessions of RLST 145 - Introduction to the Old Testament - to my iPhone, and listening on my way to work. But there are several others that look good, too, and two classes that I can highly recommend from past experience: PHIL 176 - Death, with Professor Shelly Kagan - which I much enjoyed my sophomore year, and PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology - a great survey course now taught by Paul Bloom, my favorite professor of any at Yale.