thesunflowersqueen reblogged
Free Online Educational Resources
Online Video Lectures
- MIT Open Courseware (OCW): http://ocw.mit.edu/ Comprehensive repository of materials from many classes at MIT. However, there is little course-to-course standardization and most lack user interaction/customization and focused visualizations.
- Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Started by an MIT alum to help teach his cousins via YouTube, it now serves 1800+ courses in mathematics, science, finance, and history.
- Berkeley Webcasts: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/cour…, also available as podcasts from iTunes: http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
- Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE): http://see.stanford.edu/default…. Another collection of lectures from a small private school across the bay.
- Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/ User-generated videos on a broad range of topics.
- Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT):http://www.merlot.org/merlot/ Links to a number of great resources for both learning & teaching across a range of academic disciplines. Includes guides, videos, and visualizations, though organization could be much better.
- Periodic Table of Videos: http://www.periodicvideos.com/ A Mendeleevian repository of youtube videos about each element. Pretty cool.
- Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/ Aggregates and organizes online video courses - includes materials from many of the above resources.
- Nixty: http://nixty.com/ Similar to Academic Earth, tries to make free online content more organized and accessible.
- Yale - 35 FREE Courseshttp://oyc.yale.edu/courses Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, exams, and problem sets.
- HubSpot Inbound Marketing Training Program http://www.inboundmarketing.com/university
- Free Video College Lectures http://freevideolectures.com/free-college-courses-online/#
Interactive & Personalized Courses
- MIT Electricity & Magnetism (8.02T): http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802… An experimental course format that offers some great supplementary material, including comprehensive notes and interactive visualizations. I think more courses should offer material like this.
- Carnegie Melon Open Learning Initiative: https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlear… Includes some downloadable files, as well as periodic quizzes to benchmark progress in a range of subjects.
- EduFire: http://edufire.com/ Sign up for direct lessons with user-rated experts. They also offer some more traditional courses as well as flashcards (not all lessons are free).
- Better Explained: http://betterexplained.com/ This is primarily text-based, but the author does a good job of breaking concepts down in the way he would’ve liked to have had them explained to him.
- Journal of Visual Experiments (JOVE): http://www.jove.com/ This is more geared towards biological experiment education - but is definitely useful for scientific endeavors.
- IBM Courseware: https://www.ibm.com/developerwor… Though primarily software/IT oriented, they seem to link to a number of valuable resources.
Free Textbooks
- Flatworld Knowledge: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Still building up its inventory, but will hopefully incorporate interactive elements into its free electronic textbooks.
- WikiBooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/ Relatively few finished textbooks, but if they can achieve 1/10th the success that Wikipedia has it should be quite interesting.
- ChemWiki: http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/ Texts geared towards chemistry education.
Flashcard Learning
- Smart.fm: http://smart.fm/ This is more geared towards memorization, but it applies a few valuable principles such as material customization and spaced repetition (more info. in my blog post).
- Study Blue: http://www.studyblue.com/ Build your own flashcards & notes - access from computer or phone.
- CoboCards: http://www.cobocards.com/ Insert images, formulas, and tables.
- StudyStack: http://www.studystack.com/ Find & create simple flashcards.
- Google Body: http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ OK, not really flashcards or a course per se, but this is an awesome supplemental material for any physiology or anatomy course. And it can be used like a giant, interactive stack of 3D flash cards.
- Anki: http://ankisrs.net/ Spaced repetition learning with electronic flashcards.
Language Learning
- LiveMocha: http://www.livemocha.com/ Language learning courses with audio, images, & text. Get feedback from native speakers through their social component (not all lessons are free).
- WordSteps: http://wordsteps.com/ Learn 20 words in 15 minutes every day.
- Lingt: http://lingt.com/ Recently acquired by Dictionary.com, will be re-released as their flashcard product.
- Busuu: http://www.busuu.com/ Language learning community with a really slick interface and lots of interactive elements.
