Yes Stanford has had all it's course material openly available online for many years.

I'm not aware of a Group of 8 University doing it here in Australia. I sure that there would be issues with IP here. An example being that at the University of Melbourne the course materials produced by the academics are owned by them (think this is still true), whereas at say Monash the materials (and anything else staff produce) are owned by the University. Therefore if they wanted to, Monash could do it much more easily than Melbourne.

There may be too much mathematical notation in those Stanford courses for your average punter

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