Free Online Educational Resources
October 6, 2011
There are a couple of amazing free resources online for those who would wish to edumacate themselves a little!
Courses by Department
- Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Anthropology
- Architecture
- Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
- Biological Engineering
- Biology
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Comparative Media Studies
- Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Economics
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Engineering Systems Division
- Experimental Study Group
- Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Health Sciences and Technology
- History
- Linguistics and Philosophy
- Literature
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Media Arts and Sciences
- Music and Theater Arts
- Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Physics
- Political Science
- Science, Technology, and Society
- Sloan School of Management
- Special Programs
- Supplemental Resources
- Urban Studies and Planning
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- Writing and Humanistic Studies
There are also for some courses:
- Lecture notes
- Projects and examples
- Image Galleries
- Selected lecture notes
- Projects (no examples)
- Multimedia content
- Assignments and solutions
- Exams and solutions
- OCW Scholar
- Assignments (no solutions)
- Exams (no solutions)
- Study group
- Online textbooks
iTunes U
Another good resource you can interact with is iTunes U. It has more than 350,000 free lectures, videos, films, and other resources — from all over the world. Learn more.
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As a couple of itunes based suggestions, these are pretty good as an intro:
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies
Thanks, Scott–I feel even more dummer than ever!
Here’s the site I promote for homeschoolers:
http://www.khanacademy.org/
It has over 2,600 videos and all of them rather well done.
Wow, look at all the pretty knowledge. It’s like Public Library version 2.0. *drool*