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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Free online courses and ref. materials |
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www.hsuonline.org Humane Society University One or two free classes Click on guest
Librarian Chick - Free Online Learning Resources
College-Cram.com - Social Studying Network with notes
Schoolr.com - neat online study resource
This fall, Yale University also started offering free taped video lectures online. At this point, they only have 7 classes available, but they are planning on adding more: Open Yale University courses
the Open Courseware Consortium is a clearinghouse for dozens of free courses from the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, UMass, Tufts, and quite a few overseas schools.
Online Education Database - A list of 236 Open Courseware Collections
The Michigan Center for Public Health and University of Michigan School of Public Health offer numerous free online short courses. Certificates of completion are available, according to this FAQ.
Rutgers University Basic Investing Home Study Course - Investing For Your Future. Free, of course. Printable certificate available.
A couple more good links : Very useful for engineers!!
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/online/coursedemos.php
Regents Exam Study Prep:
http://regentsprep.org/regents.cfm
Bible:
http://www.bible-study-free.org/
http://www.biblecenter.com/bibleclasses.htm
http://www.spreadinglight.com/school/
Extensive Online Bible Resource Page:
http://www.goldenstate.edu/research.htm
Writing Help and Resouces:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/
Learn PowerPoint, Excel and Access:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/Tutorials/
Free courses for airplane pilots:
http://www.aopa.org/asf/online_courses/
Various computer-related business courses from Hewlett Packard:
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/all_course...dc25c d69c092
Free Online courses for Hurricane Katrina victims:
http://www.sloansemester.org/
Free online art tutorials:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/
Online art course:
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/mainmenu.htm
Free homeschool art lessons:
http://www.homeschoolarts.com/main.htm
Learn ballroom dancing online!
http://www.dancetv.com/tutorial/index.html
WannaLearn.com. "Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites!" Swedish, Accounting, Java...
ttp://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/
Psychology: A ConnecText, Fourth Edition
Good review for intro to psychology.
Create your own online course. Free software!
http://moodle.org/
For computer science, there are many high quality, online video lectures at:
ArsDigita University Archive
Many of the lectures are by MIT professors.
World Lecture Hall. Free online course material and access to lecture notes. From University of Texas at Austin.
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
Free Radio, Television and Journalism courses from the BBC.
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
Online computer training tutorials for programs such as Dreamweaver and Photoshop:
http://www.trainingtools.com/
Free courses on a variety of subjects:
http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/FreeEdMain01.asp
Free courses from MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Free online business courses from the SBA:
http://www.sba.gov/training/courses.html
Free online courses and reading groups at Barnes and Noble University.
http://university.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?nhid=bn
The official learning and development center of the U.S. Federal Government.
http://www.usalearning.gov/USALearning/
Free online Bible study lessons:
http://www.biblestudylessons.com/
Free courses from the University of Washington:
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
Free math courses online.
http://www.purplemath.com/
Free online study guides at SparkNhttp://www.sparknotes.com/otes:
Free University Project. Study for the CLEP general eduction subject exams.
http://www.freeuniv.com/
Free study materials at Pink Monkey.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp
Free online video courses on a number of subjects. I love these!
http://www.learner.org/index.html
Math For Morons:
http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/home.html
Geography Lessons Online:
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geg101i/home.htm
Free FEMA web courses. You can get credit for these through a couple of community colleges.
http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp
Online Geography Text Book:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fun.../contents.html
Introduction To Sociology. Online text book.
http://www.wwnorton.com/giddens4/cha...r1/welcome.htm
Free Bible studies online. Can be transferred to for-credit college degree through Ames Bible College later.
http://www.amesbible.org/
Free online learning provided by Columbia University:
www.fathom.com
Free Genealogy courses From BYU:
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm
Tufts Open Courseware:
http://ocw.tufts.edu
Utah State University Open Courseware:
http://ocw.usu.edu
Johns Hopkins Open Courseware:
http://ocw.jhsph.edu
The Internet Public Library:
www.ipl.org
Great Books Online:
www.bartleby.com
Project Gutenberg. Free e-books available for download.
www.gutenberg.org
Google Scholar. Google makes available a database of academic articles and e-books.
http://scholar.google.com
Fulbright Open Courseware:
http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/fetpocw.cfm
Kyoto University Open Courseware:
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
Free Online Language courses:
http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
Free Bible and Biblican archeology courses:
http://www.apologeticscourses.com/
Suite101. Free continuing education courses.
http://www.suite101.com/suiteu/
Free general interest courses from About.com
http://u.about.com/
Learnwell.org. Take courses for free for personal interest, or pay $8 per contact hour for CE credit.
http://www.learnwell.org/
Land-Grant Training Alliance. Free online computer training courses. No longer updated.
http://www.lgta.org/lessons.html
Open Courseware Directory:
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eiberry/html/ies.htm
Sofia Free Intellectual Assets:
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
free online courses for free nursing continuing education credits.
http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm
http://medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm
http://allnurses.com/Nursing_Continu...n/Online_CEUs/
http://www.cybernurse.com/ceu.html
If you're looking for free nursing CEUS or medical CME none is better than medscape.com. I need 150 every 5 years and I get most of them there. Multiple areas of courses in every area of medicine /nursing.
Other free nursing CEUS at:
http://www.powerpak.com
Free courseware for pharmacists, nurses, and physicians
Another site where you can obtain lots of free CEUS is:
http://www.pain.com/sections/professional/index.cfm
All in area of pain control.
These sites save nurses a ton of money.
Others include:
http://www2.nursingspectrum.com/CE/Self-Study_modules/
offers 1-4 free courses a month.
For free NBCC( For Counselors) ceus ( hard to find free ones) go to:
http://www1.mentalhealthcme.com/TopicReq?
Topics include suicide prevention, tobacco cessation, addictions, genetics etc.
and at http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/how.htm#education
will find some free courses for ceus needed approved by:
The following online courses available on this site have been approved for credit from the following accrediting bodies:
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
National Association of Social Workers
National Board of Certified Counselors
NAADAC - The Association for Addiction Professionals
Topics include bullying, substance abuse , domestic violence.
not specifically for teachers or classroom settings, but you can learn first aid and CPR online.
http://www.firstaidweb.com/index.php
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/
http://www.cpr-pro.com/first_aid_resources.html
Free High School courses for Florida residents.
http://www.flvs.net/educators/fact_sheet.php
Free online high school for Minnesota residents:
http://blueskyschool.org
Free Online High School For select California Residents:
www.choice2000.org
Free Online High School for Colorado residents:
http://monte.k12.co.us/ola/index.htm
Online library and study resource aimed at high school students:
http://www.worldwideschool.org/
Verizon Literacy Campus. Online literacy courses from Verizon.
http://www.literacycampus.org/course/index.asp
Free IT courses:
http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=666
School For Champions. Business and Science courses.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/default.htm
Online chats and speeches from Harvard:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/
Journalism training courses from News University. Offered by the Poynter Institute. Requires registration. Most courses are free. Some have a charge.
http://www.newsu.org/
Community Dispatch - service which lists free online courses, some of them for CEU credit.
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/..._index_3.shtml
Free online course in Arabic:
http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/
Free courses in a variety of topics:
http://www.learnthat.com/
Free online course about starting a business and writing a business plan. The course is free, but they charge for a textbook
http://www.myownbusiness.org/course.html
Free online course in Modern Icelandic.
http://www.icelandic.hi.is/coursetest.php
THIS IS COOL! Create your own online course. Free software!
http://moodle.org/
Free Jewish studies online:
http://www.jewishstudies.org/
Research Channel, educational videos available online.
http://www.researchchannel.org/program/ptitles.asp
not courses, but video and powerpoint files on Immunology, Parasitology, Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology
just scroll down
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/video.htm
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/welcome.htm
Online library, with a number of books on various subjects:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
The following DVDs distributed for no cost. http://cln.esd101.net/contacts.htm Look at the left hand column and click About CLN.
Another site that may be of some interest
http://www.biblicaltraining.org
Open Source Text Books. Free access to textbooks online:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Internet Archive. Open-access text archive containing many, many text books and other "great books".
http://www.archive.org/details/texts |
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jkelly80

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This is fantastic. Open source textbooks? Wunderbar! |
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it's full of stars

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Thank you, buy you a pint some time. |
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