Yale’s open course initiative has a growing selection of courses, including one on Game Theory with Professor Ben Polak. MIT open courseware started the trend, and it is terrific that Yale has joined the movement. Higher education has a responsibility to the general public to make learning more accessible. The open courseware movement is a terrific way to help deliver on this duty.
But I do wonder who is consuming this content, and how effective the current delivery format is. One way to judge that is to have a first hand experience. So I’ve decided to ‘attend’ the Game Theory class. I just received the text books through inter-library loan through my local public library — a resource available to the general public (plus the books were checked out at Yale’s library!) They need to be returned a month from now, so I gotta get cracking. It is a pretty daunting schedule — 24 lectures! My first impression is that I wish it was organized in modules — smaller chunks to bite off. But we’ll see how it goes. I’ll blog periodically through the process with updates on my impressions.
Game Theory — Open Yale Courses
This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere
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