by Terry
December 19, 2011 in Uncategorized
MIT revolutionized Open Education by putting all of its courses online, free for anyone seeking the knowledge offered. Today they initiated the second wave by announcing the intention to offer certification of mastery of their courses to anyone completing the requirements, for a small fee: MIT launches online learning initiative. Read the rest of this entry →
by Terry
December 8, 2011 in Uncategorized
The rapid rise of textbook prices has helped make education costs prohibitive for most of us. The Open Textbook Movement has come to our rescue, through the incredibly generous efforts of many individuals. I have been able to find many free, and downloadable textbooks for my tutoring efforts at AccesstoLearn.com at the following sites. A wonderful list of quality textbooks is available at CK-12.org, focused on high school, remedial, and SAT prepartion books. At the college level, The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources has come up with an equally high quality list of books at OER Consortium. These books are focused on formal education. However, for those interested in self-education, the opportunities for access to free knowledge are great, especially when combined with the other resources discussed in the blog below.
by Terry
December 8, 2011 in Uncategorized
We are blessed with an abundance of free educational resources. For Self-Education the goal is to select the learning materials and books that will meet your specific needs. In the right column of most pages on this website we have included a custom Google search engine. This search engine, with your entry in the box, combs through many pages of websites, mostly provided by edtech. The results of this search will provide you with a vast array of courses and other materials. Many of the courses include video lectures, reading and written assignments and examinations, often with answers. If somehow, these materials do not meet your specific needs, then, also in the right column we have included a link More OER Search Engines to a page, provided by Curriki, which includes a list of narrower search engines, focused on specific types of materials. If you are still not able to find materials that meet your needs let us know in comments below and we will make an effort to help you.
by Terry
November 21, 2011 in Uncategorized
If you dropped out of high school, you can teach yourself and test out for a GED. If you can’t afford college tuition you can teach yourself and test out for a respected degree at Western Governors University. If your dream is to learn a skill, or acquire knowledge we can find a way.
Making the commitment to self education can be tough. We hope to create and find communities that will help sustain this difficult process.
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