Self Learning with Less Time and Money - MIT Challenge

Scott H Young has recently completed an interesting learning experiment where he took online MIT classes towards a computer science degree. For just $2,000 he received the education from MIT using online resources in one year!

Watch his TEDx talk part-way through the MIT experiment. Since the talk he has finished his goal of completing the MIT degree program in 1 year.

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While he missed out on the traditional college experience of networking, he saved hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach himself. He called it the education "a la carte."

Checkout his updated blog on what changes he would make if he were to try it again.

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Paul Solt.