Students who demonstrate mastery of the courses will be eligible for certificates of completion. However, the credentials won't be issued under the Harvard or MIT name.

Will people have to pay more than $5 a month to get snarking rights?

Me? I'm a bum. But bear in mind, I'm a Harvard bum.

Bush made it through Harvard (with dad's help of course). I'm not that impressed. MIT, I'm impressed.

As does Stanford. I signed up for the CS101 course.

Mugato: Bush made it through Harvard (with dad's help of course). I'm not that impressed. MIT, I'm impressed.

Bush went to Yale, not Harvard.

Spawn_of_Cthulhu: Mugato: Bush made it through Harvard (with dad's help of course). I'm not that impressed. MIT, I'm impressed.

Bush went to Yale, not Harvard.

Actually, he did both.

Mugato: Bush made it through Harvard (with dad's help of course). I'm not that impressed.

That's because it was a business program, not because it was Dubya. Which explains his early drinking problems.

I'll take mathematicians and engineers over some doofus with a nice haircut and coffee breath any day. Having a business degree is like saying "I don't actually have any innate skills, but I can take tests okay and people find me affable".

not quite new

Let me guess at some of the course titles:

Some Strategies For Employing Yalies

How to Get in a Vassar's Pants

Spawn_of_Cthulhu: Bush went to Yale, not Harvard.

He went to both. Undergrad at Yale, Harvard MBA.

MIT has had free courses (or at least free course materials) available for some time now. Just Google search MIT OpenCourseware.

Alakrios: MIT has had free courses (or at least free course materials) available for some time now. Just Google search MIT OpenCourseware.

Came here to mention this. Never heard about Harvard offerings, so does this mean I can be a brain surgeon by taking online classes?

So you can get access to the content, but not the networks and degrees.

As a person holding a degree from a non-competitive public university in a resource poor state who is now a grad student at one of the above referenced elite universities, I can tell you that the quality of the instruction is highly variable in both institutions. I am regularly amazed that I'm still really not challenged, and that there was a significant amount of the material at my home State U, and at the undergraduate level, that was much harder than the work I'm doing now.

Macular Degenerate: So you can get access to the content, but not the networks and degrees.

As a person holding a degree from a non-competitive public university in a resource poor state who is now a grad student at one of the above referenced elite universities, I can tell you that the quality of the instruction is highly variable in both institutions. I am regularly amazed that I'm still really not challenged, and that there was a significant amount of the material at my home State U, and at the undergraduate level, that was much harder than the work I'm doing now.

I had one of the last professional Harvard men tell me essentially the same thing--you could get just as good an education anywhere as long as you had decent resources and expected more of yourself than taking a gentleman's C.

TheShavingofOccam123: How to Get in a Vassar's Pants

"If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end... I wouldn't be at all surprised."

thisispete: TheShavingofOccam123: How to Get in a Vassar's Pants

"If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end... I wouldn't be at all surprised."

Insert golf clap here.

/nothing is obscure on Fark

StopLurkListen: As does Stanford. I signed up for the CS101 course.

Me too!!

I can write a print statement in javascript (sort of)! Wheeeee!

/yes, I know that's sad and I don't care.

I have a feeling this could encourage Internet censorship. More so on an international level.

Macular Degenerate: So you can get access to the content, but not the networks and degrees.

As a person holding a degree from a non-competitive public university in a resource poor state who is now a grad student at one of the above referenced elite universities, I can tell you that the quality of the instruction is highly variable in both institutions. I am regularly amazed that I'm still really not challenged, and that there was a significant amount of the material at my home State U, and at the undergraduate level, that was much harder than the work I'm doing now.

Hmm. I'm getting my ass kicked in grad school, about 20 years after skating through undergrad at a state school. But perhaps I'd find it easier if I were able to quit working and focus full time on school.

stewbert: Hmm. I'm getting my ass kicked in grad school, about 20 years after skating through undergrad at a state school. But perhaps I'd find it easier if I were able to quit working and focus full time on school.

I went back to college when I was 40, and it was hard as fark. I couldn't memorize anything, so of course I was a biology major. I studied my butt off, and nothing would stick. My first degree was much, much easier, and I was drunk most of the time.

My brain, my brain........

Macular Degenerate: So you can get access to the content, but not the networks and degrees.

As a person holding a degree from a non-competitive public university in a resource poor state who is now a grad student at one of the above referenced elite universities, I can tell you that the quality of the instruction is highly variable in both institutions. I am regularly amazed that I'm still really not challenged, and that there was a significant amount of the material at my home State U, and at the undergraduate level, that was much harder than the work I'm doing now.

perhaps you're just smarter now that you've been admitted to the elite university.