February 2012
5 posts
Scholarpedia →
Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program — MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to read and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from...
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Online Education Database (OEDb)
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...
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Zotero
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...
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RCampus
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,...
January 2012
1 post
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UoPeople - TUITION-FREE ONLINE EDUCATION
University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university-level studies within reach of millions of people across the world....
December 2011
3 posts
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How to find textbooks online for free: a post. →
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your copy as an electronic copy - this is the post for you!
Most textbook companies put out new editions...
The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection
The wonderful Open Culture’s compendium of Harvard Classics.
During his days as Harvard’s influential president, Charles W. Eliot made a frequent assertion: If you were to spend just 15 minutes a day reading the right books, a quantity that could fit on a five foot shelf, you could give yourself a proper liberal education. The publisher P. F. Collier and Son loved the idea and asked...
MIT OPEN COURSEWARE
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
November 2011
1 post
Yale's YouTube & Open Course
Yale’s philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used. The Yale Courses channel provides entry into the core of the University—its classrooms and academic programs—including complete sets of lectures from the Open Yale Courses initiative....
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
7 posts
WatchKnowLearn
[K-12] The Vision behind WatchKnowLearn is simple:
Free educational videos delivered over the Internet. Viewed any time, from anywhere.
SchoolTube
SchoolTube.com is the nation’s largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations.
ScholarSpot
Scholar Spot hosts free educational videos. All · Science · Physics · Psychology · Documentary · Talks · Evolution · Self Growth. Spirituality · Motivation · Philosophy…
Brightstorm
Our mission at Brightstorm is to be the best place to learn in the world. We believe that great learning starts with great teaching. So, we find the best teachers, film them teaching, and build learning solutions around those great teacher videos.
Our current solutions target the high-school age curriculum, including Math, Science, SAT, ACT and AP subjects. Over 20 million students study...
CosmoLearning
Created with the goal to provide a free online school, CosmoLearning (CL) is an educational website committed to improve the quality of homeschooling, teaching and student excellence, helping educators and self-learners alike anywhere in the world. Designed to work as a free homeschool and organized according to traditional curriculum standards, CosmoLearning provides video lectures, courses,...
TeacherTube
At TeacherTube our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to...
May 2011
3 posts
Open Culture
The best free cultural & educational media on the web Free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 250 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great...
WolframAlpha
Wolfram|Alpha is an engine for computing answers and getting knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge to compute answers to questions you ask.
Incredible for algebra, calculus, music theory, astronomy, multivariable calculus, or just plain FUN!
March 2011
1 post
UniLeaks
Unileaks is a new website devoted to providing “a place to post information on public interest matters relating to higher education.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the site was launched earlier this month by Australian activists and targets postsecondary institutions in Australia and the United Kingdom, but ultimately hopes to host the secrets of American colleges...
February 2011
4 posts
If you're reading this, you're already a Cyborg
CYBORG COURSE MATERIALS
Humans are surrounded by built objects and networks. So profoundly are humans altering their biological and physical landscapes that some have openly suggested that the proper object of anthropological study should be cyborgs rather than humans, for, as Donna Haraway says, “we are all cyborgs now”.
Cyborg Anthropology takes the view that most of modern human...
MIT World Lectures (frequent updates!)
MIT World™ answers that question by publishing key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere.
More a publication of thought leadership,...
Like couch surfing but with teachers
TeachStreet is a dynamic online community that brings motivated learners and talented teachers together. On one hand, this is a place where people who love to learn can find classes that are just right for them. On the other, we offer a public forum that helps teachers, coaches, and other experts share what they know. In the process, TeachStreet helps these experts grow their businesses with...
January 2011
3 posts
Giant Campus →
At Giant Campus, our goal is to develop, deliver, and distribute STEM and CTE curriculum for online high schools and grades 6-12 virtual education programs that exceeds expectations for quality and service. We’re dedicated to offering engaging, relevant online curriculum and programs in technology, digital arts, entrepreneurship, and engineering to middle and high school students.
Internet Academy (K-12) →
Internet Academy Our Mission - Through online comprehensive courses, Internet Academy challenges K-12 learners to grow in intellect and responsibility, for life long success.
Wikiversity →
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn...
October 2010
2 posts
LEARNERS TV
This is a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable Video lectures, Live Online Tests,etc in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language Training, Literature, Law, Economics etc FREE to its visitors… This site provides free video and audio lectures...
April 2010
22 posts
CELSTEC
CELSTEC is a Dutch research centre in the fields of learning sciences and Technology Enhanced Learning, and part of the OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS.
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resources for... →
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
OpenCourseWare →
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. Learn more here.
An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials. Visit this page to read more about OCW.
Peer2Peer University →
The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education...
WatchRice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.
Princeton's Archived Video Lectures →
The Office of Information Technology encourages faculty and departmental staff to use the WebMedia facility to meet academic, administrative, and instructional needs, including support for University sponsored events and activities.
Free Video Lectures →
Freevideolectures.com’s mission is to organize the world’s educational videos and make them universally accessible and down-loadable. To change the way we learn, to revolutionize the education system and rise the quality of education.
The European Graduate School →
LOADS of free lectures from The European Graduate School
Within the last decades the field of communication has shifted its focus from mass communication, journalism, and interpersonal communication to media theory, cultural studies, media arts, and Web 2.0.The transdisciplinary turn of communication studies deals critically and creatively with information technology and media, the...
FORUM NETWORK LECTURES →
The Forum Network is a PBS and NPR public media service in collaboration with public stations and community partners across the United States.
Through an expanding network of local public stations producing content with their community partners, we intend to bring a diverse range of perspectives on both local and global issues to audiences around the world.
The Forum Network online library...
LECTUREFOX FREE LECTURES →
What is Lecturefox?
It’s all about the joy of learning.
Lecturefox is a free service. You can find high-quality classes from universities all over the world. We collect without exception lectures from official universities, and we have a special interest in lectures from the faculties physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics. In the category “faculty mix” you can find miscellaneous...
WORLD LECTURE HALL →
Welcome to World Lecture Hall, your entry point to free online course materials from around the world. Please browse, search, learn and enjoy.
Learn Languages for Free →
Academic Earth →
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to...
VideoLectures.NET →
VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing...
MASSACHUSETTES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY →
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
What is MIT OpenCourseWare?
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration...
1000s of VIDEOS FROM THE KHAN ACADEMY →
37,969,582 lessons Delivered
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
We are complementing Salman’s ever-growing library with user-paced exercises—developed as an open source project—allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.
FREE COURSES FROM JOHNS HOPKINS →
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and their potential solutions.