Learning Resources on the web

Published September 20th, 2007

The web is one big learning resource, however there are some sites that have some nice information and courses, here is a list of some of them:

• Annenberg Media – A host of video lectures ranging from the art of the Wild West to abnormal psychology.
• ArsDigita University – ArsDigita was originally a comp sci program from MIT.  While it is now shut down, all the coursework was put online.
• BBC Learning – Online courses from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• BruinCast – UCLA course lectures.
• Chinese University Lectures – Hundreds of lectures from fourteen well known Chinese universities.
• Envible – Collaborative Learning Community
• Google Books – search for content of books
• iTunes U – Huge repository of course podcasts from well known universities.
• Learning from YouTube – Pitzer College lectures on YouTube.
• MIT OpenCourseWare – Classes on anything from history to urban studies, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• MIT World – Tons of lectures from different speakers at MIT.
• MITE AP Courses – Free Montrey Institute AP courses.
• Open Learning Initiative – Learn engineering, reasoning, chemistry, and much more from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Project Gutenberg – Thousands of free eBooks, including many course textbooks.
• Sofia – Take CC-licensed courses from small colleges.
• SWTC CourseCasts – Lectures on everything from debt to microbiology, from Southwest Wisconsin Technical College.
• The Open University OpenLearn – Great Britain’s first open learning university offers free courses from health care to William Wilberforce.
• UC Berkley Webcasts – Get audio and video netcasts from one of the best known universities in the country.
• UChannel – Princeton-sponsored online lectures.
• Utah State University OpenCourseWare – Learn everything from theatre production to cattle management from Utah State University.
• W3Schools – Tons of free online web developer tutorials.
• Western Kentucky University Distance Learning Podcasts & VODcasts – Read, listen to, and watch lectures from WKU.
• Connexions – Hundreds of user submitted courses on everything from mathematics to humanities.
• Google Video Educational Genre – Wide variety of user created videos uploaded to Google Video.
• Internet Archive Open Educational Resources – A huge multitude of courses with categories ranging from .NET programming to Chinese literature.
• Scholarpedia – Similar to Wikipedia, but with articles written by “experts” chosen by the community.
• Wikibooks – Thousands of textbooks written in over 40 different languages.

Do you know of any that are not listed?

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