http://www.bdpa-detroit.org/portal/index.php/comittees/high-school-computer-competition-hscc/29-education/57-moocs-top-10-sites-for-free-education-with-elite-universities.htm l For those who desire a free education and have the motivation, the following includes the: Top 10 Sites for Information about MOOCs: Udemy Free Courses – Udemy is an example of a site allows anyone to build or take online courses. Udemy’s site exclaims, “Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.” The New York Times reported that Udemy, “recently announced a new Faculty Project, in which award-winning professors from universities like Dartmouth, the University of Virginia and Northwestern offer free online courses. Its co-founder, Gagen Biyani, said the site has more than 100,000 students enrolled in its courses, including several, outside the Faculty Project, that charge fees.” ITunesU Free Courses – Apple’s free app “gives students access to all the materials for courses in a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books and view presentations.” Stanford Free Courses - From Quantum Mechanics to The Future of the Internet, Stanford offers a variety of free courses. Stanford’s – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence was highly successful. According to Pontydysgu.org, “160000 students from 190 countries signed up to Stanford’s Introduction to AI” course, with 23000 reportedly completing.” Check out Stanford’s Engineering Everywhere link . UC Berkeley Free Courses – From General Biology to Human Emotion, Berkley offers a variety of courses. Check out: Berkeley Webcasts and Berkeley RSS Feeds . MIT Free Courses – Check out MIT’s RSS MOOC feed . Also see: MIT’s Open Courseware . Duke Free Courses – Duke offers a variety of courses on ITunesU. Harvard Free Courses – From Computer Science to Shakespeare, students may now get a free Harvard education. “Take a class for professional development, enrichment, and degree credit. Courses run in the fall, spring, or intensive January session. No application is required.” UCLA Free Courses – Check out free courses such as their writing program that offers over 220 online writing courses each year. Yale Free Courses – At Open Yale, the school offers “free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.” Carnegie Mellon Free Courses – Carnegie Mellon boosts “No instructors, no credits, no charge.”
Free Online Courses from Top Universities 网址： http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses 以前介绍过MIT的在线课程，现在这个网址包括了更多的大学课程，所有的都可以可以通过iTunes直接下载到iPod 或者下载后，采用MP3 播放。有些课程还可以通过youtube直接在线观看， 课程涵盖很广，仅以生物学为例： Biology Animal Behavior iTunes Feed Roy Caldwell, UC Berkeley Animal Behavior iTunes Download Course Gerald Schneider, MIT Behavioral Endocrinology Feed Johns Hopkins Bioscience in the 21st Century iTunes Video Downloads Team taught, Lehigh University Darwins Legacy YouTube iTunes Team taught Stanford Evolution, Ecology and Behavior YouTube iTunes Download Course Professor Stephen C. Stearns, Yale Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering YouTube iTunes Download Course W. Mark Saltzman, Yale General Biology 1 - Feed John Hopkins General Biology 1 iTunes Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley General Biology 2 - iTunes Mp3 Stream Multiple professors, UC Berkeley General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology iTunes Feed Multiple professors, UC Berkeley General Human Anatomy YouTube iTunes Feed Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley General Molecular Biology Video Qiang Zhou, UC Berkeley Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law Feed MP3s here , Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA Genetics Feed MP3s here Jay Phelan, UCLA General Genetics iTunes Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley. Genomics Computational Biology iTunes MP3s George Church, MIT Global Problems of Population Growth iTunes YouTube Download Course - Professor Robert Wyman, Yale Introductory Biology iTunes MP3s/Videos Multiple professors, MIT Introduction to Human Nutrition iTunes Feed Nancy Amy, UC Berkeley Introduction to Oceanography - YouTube Edwin Schauble, UCLA Life Sciences 15 - Feed UCLA Molecules and Cells Feed Johns Hopkins Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering iTunes Jill Helms, Stanford Straight Talk About Stem Cells iTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics - iTunes Christopher Scott, Stanford The Future of Human Health YouTube iTunes Jennifer Raymond The Stanford Mini Med School iTunes YouTube Web Site Multiple Professors
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