Ten of the Best Free Online Education Resources
Ten of the best FREE online education resources that you should know about by Samer on July 2, 2012 ·?3 comments in Featured , Linux , Mac , Online Education , Web Apps , Web2.0 , Windows
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? ?We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here). In the process of doing so, we came into contact with all of the major, most important and professional FREE online education sites on the internet. This article will present you with ten of the best of these.There is a distinction between, on the one hand, sites that are driven by a concept or theme, and that have some form of evaluation and feedback, and sites that are simply video archives for lectures and events. This list will contain both, but the former were emphasized and given priority.
1. Khan Academy: online education for the masses –?that works
Concept|The brainchild of an MIT and Harvard educated Bangladeshi-American, the non-profit Khan Academy was started in 2007 with the mission of providing “?a high quality education to anyone, anywhere”?, and has delivered more than 160 million lessons since.|
Course format|Video lectures, progress tracking, automated exercises, and peer-to-peer tutoring based on data collected by the system.|
Topics|Five main areas: Math, Science, Finance and Economics, Humanities, Test Prep and ? TED-like talks and interviews, spanning ? more than 3200 creative-commons licensed videos.|
Cost|Free|
Why we chose it|Because Khan Academy is able to reconcile its massive, global ambition with a system that apparently works and keeps learners coming back for more.|
2. Udacity: technology courses on the cutting edge
Concept|With the stated aim of ‘?democratizing education’?, Udacity, a for profit organization, is founded by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and has had enrollments in some of its classes in the tens (and occasionally hundreds) of thousands.|
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|freewaregenius.com|
? ?We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here). In the process of doing so, we came into contact with all of the major, most important and professional FREE online education sites on the internet. This article will present you with ten of the best of these.There is a distinction between, on the one hand, sites that are driven by a concept or theme, and that have some form of evaluation and feedback, and sites that are simply video archives for lectures and events. This list will contain both, but the former were emphasized and given priority.
1. Khan Academy: online education for the masses –?that works
Concept|The brainchild of an MIT and Harvard educated Bangladeshi-American, the non-profit Khan Academy was started in 2007 with the mission of providing “?a high quality education to anyone, anywhere”?, and has delivered more than 160 million lessons since.|
Course format|Video lectures, progress tracking, automated exercises, and peer-to-peer tutoring based on data collected by the system.|
Topics|Five main areas: Math, Science, Finance and Economics, Humanities, Test Prep and ? TED-like talks and interviews, spanning ? more than 3200 creative-commons licensed videos.|
Cost|Free|
Why we chose it|Because Khan Academy is able to reconcile its massive, global ambition with a system that apparently works and keeps learners coming back for more.|
2. Udacity: technology courses on the cutting edge
Concept|With the stated aim of ‘?democratizing education’?, Udacity, a for profit organization, is founded by two Stanford University professors in 2012 and has had enrollments in some of its classes in the tens (and occasionally hundreds) of thousands.|
Course