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
October 19, 2011 in Main
Our intent is to help you acquire the resources and skills you need to cope with our new work environment.
The economy is restructuring and we are going to have to change our strategies for survival and success. Each of us is going to have to find our own way, to develop a new mind set, to develop new skills, a new approach to our work lives. The future is uncertain and we need to be flexible.
Most of us need to acquire new skills and new ways of thinking. The Open Education Movement has made free self-education very accessible. We need only to find our vision, to get organized and to find the self discipline to follow through.
Some examples of free educational resources in the US and UK are:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
UMass Boston
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of Notre Dame
Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance
Utah State University
There are many more universities and repositories around the world in many languages. For a more complete list see LearnatNexus.com.
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