A reader just forwarded me an interesting article entitled “15 Inspiring Examples of Free Online Education” by OnlineCollege.org. They list a number of gems ranging from online open academies, free resources, and courses offered by world-renowned institutions. They are geared towards beginners, early learners, returning students, and advanced levels of education:
Khan Academy- MIT Open Courseware
- Berkeley Webcast
- Tufts Open Courseware
- Open Courseware Consortium
- Academic Earth
- Textbook Revolution
- Project Gutenberg
- iTunes U
- The Open University
- Watch, Know, Learn
- The University of the People
- TED
- Wikiversity (I’m trying to find the time to be a contributed here)
- Instructables
You can find some wonderful information on nearly any topic, free books, supplements for student learning, and more!
Hi Jennfer – These sites seem to be great virtual resources. I took a quick look and the MIT site has courses designed especially for high school students. Pretty neat!
There are some really awesome and free resources out there! I love iTunes U (especially the new app – I need to write about that) because you can have your students who are in college prep classes listen to, say, a lecture from Stanford or you can go to their specialized K-12 section and use those lessons and formats. Great for those looking at “flipped classrooms.”
I will take a look at the iTunes I. I am new to blogging (just started today) so I’m excited to integrate technology into my teaching. Thanks again for the great tip!
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It’s exciting to see how many free online tools are starting to pop up for students and teachers alike.
Thanks! I”ll check it out! Keep with the blogging. It starts slow but then it takes off!
There are also Stanford’s online classes. The list of courses is at the bottom of every class page (for example here: http://www.cs101-class.org/ ). They’re mostly computers-related but few exception can be found.
Thank you so much! That is a great addition and I can’t believe I left it off! I’m so used to accessing their iTunes U stuff!
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Thanks for this list. It is very much useful and impressive certainly.
I think you missed another great website for free courses http://freevideolectures.com
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Hi Jen, thanks for the information! I am a teacher and I work for a tutoring agency in NYC. My kids can really benefit this. Going to pass this along! Hopefully you don’t mind if I forward this site to my student’s email ?
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