Title: Internet educational resources
Notes: Last updated: 14 August 2011

Education is changing. The Internet is a great resource for learning whatever you want, and is almost free.


Universities with free educational content

MIT OpenCourseware - http://ocw.mit.edu The original and still one of the best, provides syllabi, problem sets, lecture videos, and sometimes extensive lecture notes for regular MIT classes. MIT also has a YouTube channel for their lectures, available at the following address: http://www.youtube.com/user/mit?blend=1&ob=4

John Hopkins School OpenCourseware - http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ Great resource if you are interested in Public Health as a career move.

Utah State OpenCourseware - http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses_listing Solid site for many lower level undergraduate classes.

Tufts OpenCourseware - http://ocw.tufts.edu/ Another introduction to the life sciences, and public health.

Open UW - http://www.extension.washington.edu/openuw/ Free on-line courses from the University of Washington

UC Berkley Courses Webcasts - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php Free video and/or audio lectures of present and past courses at UC Berkley. UC Berkley also has a YouTube channel of their lectures, available at the following address http://www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeley?blend=2&ob=4

EcEdWeb - http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teachsug.htm Free course on Economics from the University of Nebraska

Whatcom Community College Math Courses - http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3

Princeton University Archived Lectures - http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/

Dartmouth College, Introduction to Probability:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html

Stanford CS Education Library - http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/

University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Internet educational resources - Steal This Wiki

Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative - http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

NY University: Mathematics Material - http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html


Educational podcasts

Stanford - http://itunes.stanford.edu A variety of podcasts containing academic information.


Language Education

American Sign Language - http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

BBC Languages - http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ Free on-line education in various languages

Deutsche Welle "Deutsch Interaktiv" - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.html Free on-line German lessons from Germany's international broadcaster

”Kurso de Esperanto" - http://www.kurso.com.br Free downloadable 12 lession course for Windows and Linux

Spanish Kit - http://www.spanish-kit.net/ Free on-line Spanish language course with free downloadable material for off-line studying.

Learn Welsh via BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/bigwelshchallenge/

Vistawide World Languages & Cultures - http://www.vistawide.com/ Listings of various language education resources, some free, many low-cost.

Word2Word - http://www.word2word.com/ Index to on-line language courses and services.


Other free resources

Please limit the resources to the free and useful

Librivox - http://www.librivox.org/ Free Creative Commons AudioBook Literature: Ranging from Dostoyevsky to

Darwin, from Ayn Rand to Mikhail Bakunin (And even an audiobook of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.)

Web cloud University - http://www.izobrazba.naspletu.com/learn.html multimeda courses and tutorials on interesting and funny topics

Free-Ed.net - http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/ Free education on the Internet

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/ Obviously.

Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/education Bunch of different resources...and it's searchable.

Wikiversity - http://www.wikiversity.org Open-source textbooks and user-taught classes.

Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org Searchable resource of literally thousands of documents, papers and recordings, all for free!

Curriki - http://curriki.org "Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free!"

Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Annenberg Media - http://www.learner.org/resources/ (Free registration required)

Core Documents on U.S. Democracy - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html (See what those wild-eyed, freethinking, whiskey-drinking, hemp-growing radicals were thinking of!)

Learn CPR - http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/

Sophia Project - http://sofia.fhda.edu/

ERI Distance Learning Center - http://www.eridlc.com/?FuseAction=Main.Home#List (Take preview classes for free. College credit costs $29 exam fee.)

A First Course in Linear Algebra - http://linear.ups.edu/

Article on Lifehacker about free on-line education:://lifehacker.com/software/education/technophilia-get-a- free-college-education-online-201979.php