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Educational Websites

A list of online courses and educational materials.

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· http://www.jimmyr.com/
· http://imgur.com/gallery/dZvak2P

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Coursmos

People do not get knowledge they want giving up 9 of 10 online courses. Usually they lack time and motivation to pass long online course.
Coursmos.com is a micro-learning platform that solves this problem:
1. Knowledge is represented with micro-courses of up to 9 lessons each 3 minutes long
2. Micro-lessons can contain additional materials
3. Lessons of each micro-course can be extended into separate micro-courses
4. People can request micro-courses on certain topics
5. Each micro-course can be easily created with web and mobile app

Online Learning Courses in Programming, Business, and Design | Everpath

Start online learning with Everpath. Learn to program and code in Python, Ruby, and more. Explore thousands of courses offered by experts in programming, business, and design.

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. Although some people would consider the use of an open format to be an essential characteristic of OER this is not a universally acknowledged requirement.

Coursera

We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

University of Reddit

The University of Reddit is the product of free intellectualism and is a haven for the sharing of knowledge. Teachers and students are free to explore any subject that interests them.

Unlike a conventional university, University of Reddit strives to make its course offerings free, varied, and easily accessible. Teachers are given complete freedom in planning their curricula and how they want to carry out their class. Students don't have to worry about attendance, grades, or tuition - this isn't a regular university.

Udacity

Learn. Think. Do.

Invent your future through free interactive college classes.

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edX

edX

EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web.

Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide.

Khan Academy

Learn almost anything for free.
With a library of over 4,000 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

TED: Ideas worth spreading

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading -- through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.

Academic Earth

Offering free online classes, Academic Earth provides online learning success. Their courses online feature university lectures making education online simple.

thenewboston - Education

Welcome to thenewboston, the ultimate source for free video tutorials on the internet!

Here you can find all of thenewboston tutorials organized in an orderly fashion in the Tutorials Section of the website.

musictheory.net

Lessons
Explore the fundamentals of music in animated lessons.

Exercises
Create custom exercises to improve your musical recognition.

Tools
Use interactive tools to calculate notes, intervals, and chords in a specific key.

teoría - Music Theory Web

Web site dedicated to the study of Music Theory. Articles, reference, interactive exercises, software. Teoría musical. Artículos, referencia, ejercicios y programas

LibriVox

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.

Top Documentary Films

Top Documentary Films offers full watchable documentaries and information on documentaries by quoting reviews from trusted sources.

Documentaries are classified in categories and you can easily find what you are looking for.

Documentary Heaven

DocumentaryHeaven is a site filled with thousands of free online documentaries just waiting to be seen. So come on in!

Online Etymology Dictionary

The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthausen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," and Kipfer and Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang."

Photo.net

Photography tips and techniques: articles and guides.

Photo.net covers the basics of photography, interesting columns about photography and everything in between you might want to learn about.

ThinkTutorial - Free Computer Tutorials and Lessons

Browse more than 1,461 free tutorials! At Think Tutorial, our aim is to provide you with simple, easy to use tutorials, enabling you to broaden your knowledge and operate programs, browsers and operating systems with ease. Using clear instructions and minimal jargon, our tutorials can help you with everything from Windows to Word and from Facebook to Skype.

MIT OpenCourseWare

Free MIT courses, including videos, audio, simulations, lecture notes, and exams.

Open Learning Initiative

Open Learning Initiative Transforming higher education through the science of learning.

Our courses are designed around student-centered measurable learning outcomes from start to finish which enable us to iteratively improve our courses and improve the teaching and learning experience.

YouTube EDU

YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between.

Open Yale Courses

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

UC Berkeley Webcasts

webcast.berkeley is UC Berkeley's central service for online video & audio for students and learners around the globe.

OpenCourseWare Consortium

An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content.

OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.