Does anyone understand MIT's opencourseware?

[flyingpig]

Look at 8.01 for instance, it was filmed in 1999, but all the videos are uploaded in 2008.

I am a little confused why they waited like 9 years to upload the lectures?

 

[QuarkCharmer]

I think perhaps the lectures were filmed for MIT students, and only later did they release it to the public.

Just an assumption though.

 

[zcd]

If the professor releases all of the lectures online as they're given, how can he expect any students to show up to the actual lecture?