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≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics | ≅ Leave a Comment
BigThink asked Dr. Michio Kaku to sum up Einstein’s legacy in a nutshell. Above, you get his attempt in a quick minute. Obviously, this is just beginning to scratch the surface, and knowing you, you want to go deeper. So here you go: Leonard Susskind, a world famous physicist, offered a series of six courses [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
This week, Bill Gates joined the rest of the world and launched his personal blog, The Gates Notes. And, without wasting any time, he started talking about an issue near and dear to my heart — the resources (both paid and free) available to lifelong learners everywhere. In a very down-to-earth kind of way, Gates [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 1 Comment
Robert Shiller, who predicted the stock market crash earlier this decade and the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, has a unique understanding of the financial markets and behavioral economics. In this free course provided by Yale University, Shiller demystifies the financial markets and explains “the theory of finance and its relation to the [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you’re completely new to the concept of “open” courses, then this primer is worth a good look. The new edition of the AARP Bulletin (which targets millions of Americans over the age of 50) tells you where to find open courses, what software you might need, how to store files, etc. We get a little [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
Just a quick note: our collection of Free Courses from top universities was getting a bit long, pushing toward 275 courses. So we decided to make things a bit easier to navigate. You can now directly access individual sections of the collection. The sections are listed below, and you can otherwise find them in the [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 4 Comments
A quick update for you. Yale University has added its third batch of courses to its open education initiative, bringing the total number of courses to 25. (Find the complete list here.) The latest round is slightly bigger than previous ones, which bucks the trend that we’re generally seeing. (Open Courses have been in a [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 4 Comments
We happened to mention Michael Sandel last week, and then I came across this…
Harvard University and WGBH Boston have posted online Sandel’s very popular course, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” How popular is it? Over 14,000 Harvard students have taken this course over the past 30 years. The course takes a close look [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
Folks, I happened to notice that the Teaching Company is offering 50% off its audio download courses this weekend. As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m a big consumer of their products. (They travel across the United States and record great professors teaching great courses.) You can get more information on their Facebook page, or start shopping [...]
≡ Category: Education, Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick news break: Time.com has released today a new list, “The 50 Best Web Sites of 2009,” and right alongside some well known brands, you’ll find Academic Earth, a new venture that aggregates high quality university video. Essentially, Academic Earth pulls together videos from top-notch universities and lets users watch them with a very [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 1 Comment
Over the past two years, Yale has released fifteen free “open courses.” Initially, these courses were only available through Yale’s web site and later YouTube. Now, they’re also accessible through iTunesU — which means that you can put these courses on your iPod with relative ease. Just click here and scroll down, and you’ll find well-produced courses [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
Recently, Time Magazine ran a piece called “Logging On to the Ivy League” that tells a story we’re all familiar with here — many major universities are now recording courses and making them freely available online. (See our full list of courses here.) Somewhat ironically, the article mostly features courses from non ivy league universities [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
The folks at universitiesandcolleges.org have provided a very handy resource here. They’ve sifted through the big OpenCourseWare universe and centralized the resources for over 500 college courses. In some cases, you’ll find audio lectures. In other cases, you’ll find lecture notes, reading lists, and homework assignments. This mega list makes it easy to browse through [...]
≡ Category: Most Popular, Online Courses, Random | ≅ 30 Comments
I was asked by a newspaper reporter today how people, like you, are using open university courses (such as those found in our collection of Free Courses). And the truth is, I’m not always sure. So I figured, why not put the question out there and ask you. Here it goes: How are you using these [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Physics, Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 5 Comments
This week, Stanford has started to roll out a new course, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Taught by Leonard Susskind, one of America’s leading physics minds, this course is the fourth of a six-part sequence – Modern Physics: The Theoretical Minimum – that traces the development of modern physics, moving from Newton to Black Holes. As the [...]
≡ Category: History, Online Courses | ≅ 9 Comments
For lifelong learners, courses on Ancient Greece and Rome always remain in steady demand. While these courses are poorly represented in undergraduate programs (at least in the States), they seem be to making a comeback in continuing education programs designed for older students. Eventually, it seems, many come to the conclusion that you can’t skip [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History, Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Geography of US Presidential Elections keeps rolling along. With his well-crafted lectures, Martin Lewis shows you this week how America’s political map and its political parties changed dramatically following the Civil War. In the space of 90 minutes, he takes you through the Reconstruction period, The Gilded Age, the Depression, World War II and The [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Yale | ≅ 5 Comments
I wanted to give everyone a heads up that Yale has just released its second round of “open courses.” And I have to say that the lineup looks great. Let me quickly list them for you:
The American Novel Since 1945 (Amy Hungerford)
Introduction to Greek History (Donald Kagan)
Game Theory (Ben Polak)
Financial Markets (Robert Shiller)
Milton (John Rogers)
France [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Stanford | ≅ 3 Comments
Here’s a project that a few colleagues and I have had some fun developing. So it only seems fair that I get the scoop, right?
Starting on October 15, you can follow a timely, free course presented by Stanford University. Led by Martin Lewis, the course will explore the geography of U.S. presidential elections (both past [...]
≡ Category: Business, Economics, Online Courses | ≅ 3 Comments
Here’s a course for our historical moment….
Behavioral economics—”the study of how thinking and emotions affect individual economic decisions and the behavior of markets”—is a relatively new discipline. This approach to economics, which marries psychology and economics and discards the assumption that every economic actor is rational, was developed partly by Richard Thaler, Director of the Center [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
Several months back, we mentioned how the Indian Institutes of Technology (otherwise called the IITs) had launched a series of free technology courses on YouTube. You can find about 50 free courses here in total.
As a quick follow up, it’s also worth letting you know about a new series of courses being webcast live (and [...]
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