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≡ Category: Apple, e-books, Online Courses | ≅ 5 Comments
Analysts expect Apple to sell 48 million iPads this year, with new hardware and software driving the sales. iPad3 is right around the corner, and today Apple unveiled (watch here) a new initiative that will bring textbooks to the iPad/iPhone platform. Download the latest version of the iBooks app and you can now purchase textbooks [...]
≡ Category: Art, Books, Education, Film, Music, Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
Before we rush headlong into a new year, it’s worth pausing, ever so briefly, to consider the ground we covered in 2011. What topics resonated with you … and jazzed us? Today, we’re highlighting 10 thematic areas (and 46 posts) that captured the imagination. Chances are you missed a few gems here. So please join [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, e-books, Film, Language Lessons, Online Courses | ≅ 8 Comments
Santa left a new Kindle, iPad or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we’ll do ours. We’ll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media — great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn’t get a new gadget, fear not. You can [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics | ≅ Leave a Comment
As The New York Times noted in a 2007 profile, Walter Lewin long had a cult following at MIT. But when his free courses went viral on the web (find them in the Physics section of our big collection of Free Online Courses), the physics prof became an “international Internet guru,” the first star of the [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 5 Comments
It happens at least a few times a day. Students look through our list of 400Â Free Online Courses, and ask us whether they can get a certificate for taking a class. And, unfortunately, our answer has been no — no, you can’t. But that may be about to change. Earlier this fall, Stanford launched a [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 17 Comments
Two weeks ago, we mentioned that Stanford will be rolling out seven new courses in its experiment with online learning. Fast forward to today, and yet another seven courses have been added to the winter lineup, bringing the total to 14. Immediately below, you’ll find the latest additions. All of these courses feature interactive video [...]
≡ Category: Economics, Online Courses | ≅ 7 Comments
David Harvey, an important social theorist and geographer, has got the right idea. Take what you know. Teach it in the classroom. Capture it on video. Then distribute it to the world. Keep it simple, but just do it. Harvey is now making available 26 hours of lectures, during which he gives a close reading [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
This fall, Stanford launched a highly-publicized experiment in online learning. The university took three of its most popular computer science courses and made them freely available to the world. Each course features interactive video clips; short quizzes that provide instant feedback; and the ability to pose high value questions to Stanford instructors. The response? It has been nothing [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ 1 Comment
You have got to hand it to The Great Courses (sometimes also called The Teaching Company). Based in Chantilly, VA, the company has traveled across America, recording professors lecturing on great topics. They have roughly 350 courses in their catalog, market them aggressively with millions of print materials and emails, and generate $110 million in annual [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, e-books, Film, Online Courses | ≅ 3 Comments
With Labor Day behind us, it’s officially time to head back to school. That applies not just to kids, but to you. No matter what your age, no matter where you live, no matter what your prior level of education, you can continue deepening your knowledge in areas old and new. And it has never [...]
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