Found this on today's Slashdot... I'm sure everyone here on ChiefDelphi would find this stuff interesting:
It's not quite online courses in the sense of MIT's
OpenCourseware, but it's interesting nevertheless. It's a bunch of videos that show the industrial processes involved in making things we see around us every day - in short, shows what FIRST is training us for.
This past summer, I went to Munich. What's in Munich besides beer and a drinking age of 12 (think Octoberfest), you ask? Cars. Cars as in Mercedes, BMWs, Porches, etc. We stopped by the BMW museum and signed up for the BMW factory tour. It was amazing - they walked you through the entire production line from the shaping of the parts to welding the frame together to painting to final assembly to testing. Seeing a two-story robotic arm effortlessly lift an entire car frame and perfectly position it so two more two-story Matrix-esque robotic welding arms weld specific joints with sparks flying is an amazing site to see, especially because every car on the assembly line contains certain options that others don't (BMW none-too-modestly advertised that it is extremely rare to see two identical BMWs come off the assembly line). All the tour needed was Carl Orff's O Fortuna playing in the background. Anyways, what I'm getting at is that for us students, the way that the manufactering process works is quite interesting, and with 4+ hours of streaming video, that site is a day-waster (in the good way ;-))
Oh, and the intro to the site opens up with Henri Mancini's Magnificent Seven Theme =DDDDD