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Science & Cooking Public Lectures
Harvard University
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2011 · score 1.0
A public lecture series from Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences that explores the science behind cooking and food preparation. Talks are aimed at general audiences rather than a specific course of study.
One commenter calls it their favorite Harvard lecture series, praising it alongside other online resources.
General Learningbeginnerfreevideo lectures#food science#cooking#physics of food#harvard#public lectures
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I'm a big fan of OCW and other online resources, but they just move the traditional style into an online format. And I'm especially excited for the OCW scholar site to get more material (plus, I'm excited to go through their Physics courses, I was never satisfied with my physics classes). My favorite Harvard lecture series is the Science & Cooking Public Lectures (http://seas.harvard.edu/cooking).
But all those sites are evolutionary not revolutionary. They would never inspire the kind of use that Khan Academy has seen.
I think the one of key's to the Khan Academy system is the short 5-15 minute "lectures" that only teach a single concept at a time. That makes it more approachable and easier to go right to where you need to be; rather than a 50 minute lecture that covers a dozen different things at once.
Teaching it like a tutoring session may not seem like that big a change, but when you combine all the little differences from the traditional model it become something totally revolutionary.