How To Find Your Own Online Classes

 If you're looking for more or more varied course material, here are some resources to help you find great, university-level online classes that you can take from the comfort of your desk, at any time of day.

• Academic Earth curates an amazing list of video seminars and classes from some of the world's smartest minds, innovators, and leaders on a variety of topics including science, mathematics, politics, public policy, art, history, and more.
• TED talks are well known for being thought provoking, interesting, intelligent, and in many cases, inspiring and informative. We've featured TED talks at Lifehacker before, and if you're looking for seminars on the web worth watching, TED is worth perusing.
• edX is a collection of free courses from leading Universities like the University of California, Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard. There aren't many, but the ones offered are free, open to the public, and they rotate often.
• Coursera has a broad selection of courses in-session or beginning shortly that you can take for academic credit (if you're enrolled) or just a certificate of completion that shows you've learned a new skill. Topics range from science and technology to social science and humanities, and they're all free.
• Udacity offers a slimmer selection of courses, but the ones offered are not only often for-credit, but they're instructor led and geared towards specific goals, with skilled and talented instructors walking you through everything from building a startup to programming a robotic car.
• Education-Portal.com has a list of universities offering free and for-credit online classes to students and the public at large.
• Open Culture's list of free online courses is broken down by subject matter and includes classes available on YouTube, iTunes U, and direct from the University or School's website.
• The Open Courseware Consortium is a collection of colleges and universities that have all agreed to use a similar platform to offer seminars and full classes—complete with notes, memos, examinations, and other documentation free on the web. They also maintain a great list of member schools around the world, so you can visit universities anywhere in the world and take the online classes they make available.
• The Khan Academy offers free YouTube-based video classes in math, science, technology, the humanities, and test preparation and study skills. If you're looking to augment your education or just take a couple video classes in your spare time, it's a great place to start and has a lot of interesting topics to offer.
• The University of Reddit is a crowd-built set of classes and seminars by Reddit users who have expertise to share. Topics range from computer science and programming to paleontology, narrative poetry, and Latin. Individuals interested in teaching classes regularly post to the University of Reddit subthread to gauge interest in future couses and announce when new modules are available.
• The Lifehacker Night School is our own set of tutorials and classes that help you out with deep and intricate subjects like becoming a better photographer, building your own computer, or getting to know your network, among others.

 

Duolingo to the list, its ace for learning a new language! I'm halfway through Spanish at the moment - [duolingo.com]

 

[Saylor.org] is another great resource for free online learning.

 

Read more at http://lifehacker.com/5938782/plan-your-free-online-education-at-lifehacker-u-fall-semester-2012

 

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Best Jobs/ Best Occupations/ Best Courses for 2012

All of our Best Jobs of 2012 are outstanding, but the top 25 make for a particularly great career choice. We’ve ranked them, comparing their projected growth to the year 2020 to their industry’s employment rate. Also contributing to a job’s overall score is its average salary, predicted job prospects, and a quantitative assessment of job satisfaction.
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-25-best-jobs

Jobs Rated 2012: Ranking 200 Jobs From Best to Worsthttp://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2012-ranking-200-jobs-best-worst

The 10 Best Jobs of 2012http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/10-best-jobs-2012

The 20 Best-Paying Jobs For Women In 2012http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/07/16/the-20-best-paying-jobs-for-women-in-2012/

 

U.S. Universities Reshaping Education on the Web

As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. In the fall, Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally. 

Over the past decade, online instruction has exploded in higher education.
Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free.
https://www.coursera.org/

Over 1,000,000 Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies free

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge" It offers permanent storage of and free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public-domain books.

http://archive.org/index.php

Free computer science online tutorial service Khan

On Wednesday, free online tutorial service Khan Academy will launch a new series of instructional videos covering the field of computer science.

"This project is going to blow the doors off Computer Science education," boasted Khan's dean of computer science and noted JavaScript programmer John Resig, in a Twitter message. "I have a feeling that people are going to have A LOT of fun with it."

 

Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.

With over 3,300 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.

 

Khan Academy offers more than 3,000 free instructional videos in various subjects, including math, physics, finance, and history.

 

http://www.khanacademy.org/

 

for more information on computer science go to my blog

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Introduction to programming and computer science

Videos

1. Introduction to Programs Data Types and Variables
2. Binary Numbers
3. Python Lists
4. For Loops in Python
5. While Loops in Python
6. Fun with Strings
7. Writing a Simple Factorial Program. (Python 2)
8. Stepping Through the Factorial Program
9. Flowchart for the Factorial Program
10. Python 3 Not Backwards Compatible with Python 2
11. Defining a Factorial Function
12. Diagramming What Happens with a Function Call

1. Recursive Factorial Function
2. Comparing Iterative and Recursive Factorial Functions
3. Exercise - Write a Fibonacci Function
4. Iterative Fibonacci Function Example
5. Stepping Through Iterative Fibonacci Function
6. Recursive Fibonacci Example
7. Stepping Through Recursive Fibonacci Function
8. Exercise - Write a Sorting Function
9. Insertion Sort Algorithm
10. Insertion Sort in Python
11. Stepping Through Insertion Sort Function
12. Simpler Insertion Sort Function