Self Directed Learning Opportunities Lean Manufacturing http://www.dau.mil/educdept/mm_dept_resources/navbar/lean/reference.asp Defense Acquisition University http://www.dau.mil/clc/default.aspx Air Force Institute of Technology http://www.afit.edu/ MIT Open Courseware Site http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm University of Wisconsin http://open.uwec.edu/ University of Michigan http://open.umich.edu/education#cb=f35233b04db1878&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fopen.umich.edu%2Ff
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Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online
#1 UC Berkeley
Ranked as the #1 public school in the United States, Berkeley
offers podcasts and webcasts of amazing professors lecturing. Each course has an RSS feed
so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and notes you can check the
professors homepage, which is usually given in the first lecture or google his name. Even
though the notes, homework and tests are not directly printed in the berkeley website, as they
are in MIT and other courseware sites, it's not a problem to find them. I personally tried to use
it for John Wawrzynek's machine structures class and the nutrition courses.
Visit: Berkeley Webcasts
Visit: Berkeley RSS Feeds
Visit: UC Berkeley on Google Video
Getting The Most From Berkeley Webcasts
Berkeley Videos are in .rm format and real player can be a pain. It asks you to register real
player, spawns on startup. Instead, download a free program called media player classic with
the real alternative plugin. Media player classic is fully featured and much easier on the
computers memory. The real alternative plugin download seems to come with an older version
of media player classic, so updating media classic is optional.
Download: Real Alternative Plugin
Download: Media Player Classic For Windows XP/2000
Download: Media Player Classic For Windows 98/ME
#2 MIT Open Courseware
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ranked 7th nationally in the United
States. Many of the courses do not have video lectures. Instead, they have notes in PDF
format along with tests and homework.
Visit: MIT OpenCourseware Course Listings
Visit: MIT OpenCourseware Online Textbooks
Visit: MIT Courses With Video Lectures
Visit: MITWorld Public Videos
Visit: MIT Pocast: ZigZag
Getting the Most Out of MIT OCW
Since MIT OCW is heavily based on opening PDF files it's recommended you download
FoxIt Reader, a freeware PDF reader that's many times faster than the bulky and slow adobe
acrobat. Also Ghost Script in combination with GSView is able to read pdfs, and post scripts
files.
Download: Foxit Reader
#3 Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university ranked equal with
Berkeley. Though registration is not required they have a registered user mode that allows
you to keep track of your scores and progress. Currently 11 courses are offered. The courses
are basically ebooks in a frame-based easy to use navigation system with an occasional
powerful interactive Java Applet for practice and testing.
Visit: Carnegie Mellon OLI
#4 Utah State OpenCourseWare
Utah State has a very familiar structure as MIT OCW with large
available course listing.
Visit: http://ocw.usu.edu/
#5 Tufts OpenCourseWare
Tufts University in Massachusetts has a very familiar structure as MIT OCW with
large available course listing.
Visit: http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
#6 Openlearn
European site called Open University's OpenLearn supported by The William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation. Contains many online course and a different style content
management system. I was unable to find anything interactive or any streaming media, though
it does have forums for each course. Appears to function mostly as a large educational ebook
library.
Visit: OpenLearn
2 #7 JHSPH OCW
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
offers health based lecture notes and assigments. You'll find the JHSPH OCW website uses
the same familiar navigation structure as MIT OCW. The notes are formatted much more
cleanly but I haven't seen exams, and their search bar seems to be broken.
Visit: JHSPH OCW Course Listings
Visit: Johns Hopkins University Podcasts
#8 Connexions
CNX.org is an open-content library of course materials developed
by Rice University. It has a huge database of content which is very useful for people who
know what they're looking for. It does have ebook style higher level courses courses you can
choose from.
Visit: Connexions
Visit: Connexions Course List
#9 Sophia
Initiative is led by Foothill College which contains 8 free courses.
Visit: Sofia
#10 University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
Contains posted lectures and classnotes. Some of the
courses even contain video lectures.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-­‐webs.html
Notre Dame OpenCourseware
http://ocw.nd.edu/
Wikiversity
From the creators of wikipedia, Wikiversity describes itself as being a community
seeking to create and use learning materials and activities. Wikibooks is also incredibly
powerful already containing everything from a detailed guide to learning French to Organic
Chemistry and Nanotechnology.
Visit: Wikiversity
Visit: Wikibooks
More University Video Sites
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://graduateschool.paristech.org/?langue=EN
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/
http://mitworld.mit.edu/
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/
http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/index.html
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/video_mm.html
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/sci/sls.html#Presentations
http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/multimedia/videoarchive.html
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/webcasts/
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Default
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/audiovideo.html
http://shc.stanford.edu/events/archive.htm
http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/
http://www.yale.edu/yale300/democracy/mediatranscripts.htm
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/video.jsp