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25 Free Educational Resources Online
Secret revealing time! My early usernames on sites (before we all went back to using our real names) was InfoJunkette. Why? Because I love learning. I always have. I've always been more of a applicable learner. More of a learner on my own and for the joy of learning versus school and tests. When I saw yesterday's New York Times special section, Education Life, called Downloadable Education, it awakened something inside of me that was alert and alive and excited. Learning from elite universities online is nothing new to me. Listening to Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Series has been a weekly habit of mine for years, as have countless other resources and tools.
This excitement towards learning is inside all of us. And thanks to the Internet, it's free (or close) and available when and how you want it. I've listed first the resources from The New York Times this weekend (aggregated together from a few articles) and then a list of my personal favorites. If you have one you'd like to share, please leave a note in the comments!
What They're Watching (Top YouTube classes online):
- Moral Reasoning 22: Justice Harvard
- Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy University of California, Berkeley
- Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents University of California, Berkeley
- Physics 1: Classical Mechanics M.I.T.
- Introduction to Basic Electronics Indian Institutes of Technology
- SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business University of California, Berkeley
- Computer Science 106A: Programming Methodology Stanford
- Mathematics 18.03: Differential Equations M.I.T.
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Einstein Stanford Continuing Studies
- Math 18.06: Linear Algebra M.I.T.
More Resources on Learning Something for Nothing:
A few of my personal favorites:
- PopTech
- Ted Talks
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Series, Stanford
- Social Good from The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Philosopher Notes
- Mixergy
- Edufire
- PSFK
- Trend Central by The Intelligence Group
What are your favorite places, podcasts, educational resources online?