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Sciencedump is a source for short, interesting and inspiring science, design and art videos. We wished we were great inventors, top scientists, super entrepreneurs but we are not :) Instead we like to watch interesting science projects, smart people and innovative ideas and wanted to share that with you.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. The LibriVox objective is “to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet”.  LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

In April 2012, it had a catalogue of over 5,400 unabridged books and shorter works available to download and produced on average 90 audiobooks per month. Around ninety percent of the collection is in English, although LibriVox recordings are available in 33 languages altogether.

Harvard open courses at Harvard Extension feature video of Harvard faculty

The following noncredit free Harvard courses are offered online by Harvard Extension School’s Open Learning Initiative. Featuring Harvard faculty, the courses are open to the public.

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MIT and Harvard announce edX

Joint venture builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

We’ve compiled the Online Education Database (OEDb) to help ambitious students and prospectives find the most convenient, valuable and relevant education programs to fulfill their academic and career objectives. Adults going back to school in pursuit of a higher degree, high school graduates curious about starting a college program, and nontraditional students in search of online education options are all welcome to survey our comprehensive reviews and rankings of online colleges and degree programs. Picking the perfect school is easy.

Start by comparing online colleges or by exploring the types of academic programs and degree levels these schools offer, in fields like engineering, business, the arts and humanities, and health care, plus many more. Our OEDb Library will guide you in your school search and will help you understand the unique dynamics of online education — how it works, who it serves, and how it can help you build an invigorating, lasting career.

Visit the Rankings page and database for information on the best accredited online colleges and universities cross the country.

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.

An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways.

Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).

RCampus is a comprehensive Education Management System and a collaborative learning environment.

At RCampus, you can do all your school-related work from building personal and group websites to managing your courses, eportfolios, academic communities, and much more.
 
Educators, students and school administrators can manage courses, build ePortfolios, create websites, join eCommunities, assess school work with rubrics and much more, from a single location. Everyone will find RCampus a familiar environment with tools that are easy and effortless to use.