Open Education (Education Aggregator)

I wrote a very brief blog article some time back about an education aggregator. That aggregator is still up and running, but I figured I would also write down an actual education website you can visit to expand your knowledge.

The site I visit the most often is MIT's OpenCourseWare. Here you can find, as the site says, "Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT." You can search through the content in many different ways, such as by class and topic. It has an impressive array of videos, assignments, tests and solutions. For instance, if you are taking first year calculus in University and are having trouble or are trying to go over certain materials, checking out their single variable calculus might be a good idea. For many of the lectures, a textbook is not required; generally a textbook is only needed for the assigned problems. The exams provide another conduit for practice questions when you are studying for an upcoming exam.

There are many more sites dedicated to providing and organizing course material to help you learn. I just thought I should post MIT's, as I have found this to be one of the most useful. Has anyone else found other sites on par with MIT's?

Oh, OpenCourseWare Consortium has an impressive list of institutions that are participating in the open learning movement, so checking this out can give you a huge list of new schools to explore as well.

An Education Aggregator

For all of you who have jumped in on the open education of large universities, there is a site out there to help you manage all of them. Called Lecturefox, it's what appears to be an education aggregator. Although it seems aimed towards computer science, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, it does have more topics. I think it should have some changes to allow easy searching of more specific topics, but all in all, it has a very simple interface and should cause little confusion. I recommend checking it out, and seeing if there's a topic that interests you.

Link: Lecturefox

Berkeley Now Offers their Fall Course Videos On Youtube

I'm writing this a little late, but The University of Berkeley is now offering their course lectures available on Youtube (I believe the news about this went out in October). Many universities have joined the open-source like atmosphere of the internet and are giving away free course information and lectures. It's quite an amazing job from the universities, and enables people with interests in certain topics to learn while not necessarily spending thousands of dollars. And it's often those people who end up changing the world around us.