[AstroNet] Free Introductory Astronomy Courses - important update

[Maciej Soltynski]

The Astronomy courses being taught by Prof Nemiroff are no longer available at the site given in my original message.

They are now available for download at 

https://titanas.it.teithe.gr/shared/v13/astronomy/

They are approximately 35-45MB per 50 minute lecture, and as of today, 11 lectures are available.
 
Maciej Soltynski

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  Subject: [AstroNet] Free Introductory Astronomy Course


  Prof Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Tech) is teaching an astronomy course available freely online

  He writes:

  The course originates at Michigan Technological University where I am a Professor. Many MTU students are taking this exact class for credit, but anyone with a browser can take it for free. Not only are the lectures free, but this semester no textbook is needed for the course since I am exclusively using the web: mostly APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) and Wikipedia. The idea of teaching without a formal textbook is to make the course as inexpensive to students and un-registered web-viewers as possible. APOD is used because I am so familiar with it, and because the liberal use of APOD images makes the course really beautiful, in my (biased) opinion. The lectures occur live at Michigan Tech on Mondays and Wednesdays, and are released to iTunes and learnoutloud.com shortly after. 

  Every Wednesday, at the end of class, I can be seen reviewing the previous week's APODs. Polite criticisms and general feedback are welcome!
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