Open Yale Course Notebooks

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Last updated 9 September 2026

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Site publisher

This non-professional, independent educational website is published and directed by Marie Drouvin.

marie@mariedrouvin.com

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The website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States. More information is available at cloudflare.com.

About this project

Open Yale Course Notebooks is an independent educational project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yale University. The original lectures remain the source material.

Course materials, notebook adaptations and images have their own source and licence information in each notebook. Nothing on this page replaces those individual credits or licences.

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Course pages include embedded videos served by YouTube using its privacy-enhanced domain. When a course page loads or a visitor uses the player, the browser connects to YouTube and Google may receive technical information about that request. Their processing is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and the YouTube Terms of Service.

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Privacy questions

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Questions about how this website operates can be sent to marie@mariedrouvin.com.

How this was made

When I was 20, I decided to go to university in Ireland. I’m French, and at the time my English wasn’t very good. So, being the genius I was, I enrolled in an Irish history course.

I knew nothing about Irish history. I had no cultural or historical background to fall back on: everything I knew was French. After the first few lectures, I was completely overwhelmed.

Because I could access the slides in advance, I started making documents before each lecture. I used them to give myself the context I was missing and understand what the lecture was going to be about. They helped me follow the course - and pass it - even when my English was still shaky.

This website is a continuation of those documents. Each notebook is designed to help you understand the context before you watch a lecture, then remember what you have just watched afterwards. It does not replace the course. It is here to guide you through these wonderful lectures, all freely available online.

The notebooks were made with AI. I turned the process into a Course Notebook skill so that you can use it to make your own. It was tested on Open Yale Courses, but it is not limited to them. You may need to poke at it, ask it to improve a few things and make the result your own.

I hope you enjoy the notebooks. If you want to see what else I’ve been making during my current vibe-coding phase, you can find it in my portfolio.

Course Notebook skill on GitHub →See my portfolio →