#title Internet educational resources
#lang en
#pubdate 2023-01-23T21:07:08
#topics Survival, Free Education
#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/][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][http://www.youtube.com/user/mit?blend=1&ob=4]]
John Hopkins School OpenCourseware - [[http:/ocw.jhsph.edu/][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][http://ocw.usu.edu/Courses_listing]] Solid site for many lower level undergraduate classes.
Tufts OpenCourseware - [[http:/ocw.tufts.edu/][http://ocw.tufts.edu/]] Another introduction to the life sciences, and public health.
Open UW - [[http:/www.extension.washington.edu/openuw/][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][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][http://www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeley?blend=2&ob=4]]
EcEdWeb - [[http:/ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teachsug.htm][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][http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3]]
Princeton University Archived Lectures - [[http:/www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/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][http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching]]_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
Stanford CS Education Library - [[http:/cslibrary.stanford.edu/][http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/]]
University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page - [[http:/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/]]
Internet educational resources - Steal This Wiki
Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative - [[http:/www.cmu.edu/oli/][http://www.cmu.edu/oli/]]
NY University: Mathematics Material - [[http:/homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html][http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html]]
** Educational podcasts
Stanford - [[http:/itunes.stanford.edu/][http://itunes.stanford.edu]] A variety of podcasts containing academic information.
** Language Education
American Sign Language - [[http:/commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/][http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/]]
BBC Languages - [[http:/www.bbc.co.uk/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][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/][http://www.kurso.com.br]] Free downloadable 12 lession course for Windows and Linux
Spanish Kit - [[http:/www.spanish-kit.net/][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/][http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/bigwelshchallenge/]]
Vistawide World Languages & Cultures - [[http:/www.vistawide.com/][http://www.vistawide.com/]] Listings of various language education resources, some free, many low-cost.
Word2Word - [[http:/www.word2word.com/][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/][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][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/][http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/]] Free education on the Internet
Wikipedia - [[http:/en.wikipedia.org/][http://en.wikipedia.org/]] Obviously.
Creative Commons - [[http:/creativecommons.org/education][http://creativecommons.org/education]] Bunch of different resources...and it's searchable.
Wikiversity - [[http:/www.wikiversity.org/][http://www.wikiversity.org]] Open-source textbooks and user-taught classes.
Internet Archive - [[http:/www.archive.org/][http://www.archive.org]] Searchable resource of literally thousands of documents, papers and recordings, all for free!
Curriki - [[http:/curriki.org/][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][http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html]]
Annenberg Media - [[http:/www.learner.org/resources/][http://www.learner.org/resources/]] (Free registration required)
Core Documents on U.S. Democracy - [[http:/www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html][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/][http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/]]
Sophia Project - [[http:/sofia.fhda.edu/][http://sofia.fhda.edu/]]
ERI Distance Learning Center - [[http:/www.eridlc.com/?FuseAction=Main.Home%23List][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/][http://linear.ups.edu/]]
[[http:/lifehacker.com/software/education/technophilia-get-a-free-college-education-online-201979.php][Article on Lifehacker about free on-line education:://lifehacker.com/software/education/technophilia-get-a-]] free-college-education-online-201979.php