MIT-open courseware: Massachussets university of technology offers free courses in various fields.Some of the lectures are available in audio and video format through their youtube channel.There are total 1800 courses.More than a million use the tutorials virtually from every country.
Stanford University: Stanford univesity offers a wide range of related audio and video courses via apple's itunes store.You need to have apple i tunes to access them.Courses Offered - Human-Computer Interaction, The Future Of The Internet, Straight Talk About Stem Cells, Anatomy of Movement, Global Geopolitics, Convex Optimization, Introduction to Robotics etc.
University of california: The University of California, Irvine has a long history of social engagement. As a leading public research University, an important part of its mission is to showcase and disseminate the research and scholarship of the University to the public.There is a e-marketing course available here.
Delft Univesity of Technology:The Delft University of Technology offers a number of free technology courses. Most of Delft's courses cover advanced topics that would be of interest to students in engineering or related fields. New courses are constantly being added to the site
University of California,Berkeley:It also provides valuable courses thorugh itunes just like the stanford university.Self-learners can gain access to a wide range of technology courses, lectures and events. Additional courses can be found though webcast.berkeley.edu.
Tufts University: A great university constantly expands its reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community's most critical needsThrough OpenCourseWare.
Tufts aims to share its expertise broadly and to
empower others throughout the world,
so they may reach their full potential."
President Lawrence Bacow
Utah state university: A famous statement by the president of the university" In the tradition of land grant universities, Utah State University OpenCourseWare assures that no individual who is prepared and who desires the opportunity to advance his or her education is turned away. USU OCW provides an unprecedented degree of free and open access to the knowledge and expertise of our faculty for the benefit of every citizen of the state of Utah and every person in the world. As we enter the 21st century, services like OpenCourseWare will enable land grant institutions to more fully accomplish their missions.USU offers its students a number of opportunities to obtain college credit for what they have learned in nontraditional ways - like using USU OpenCourseWare! If you are interested in earning credit for USU courses without taking the courses, you have a variety of "credit by examination" options available. These include:
What is open courseware?
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Goals of the consortium:- Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world.
- Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects.
- Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs.
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=32
There are other consortium's like chinese CORE—China Open Resource for Education and japanese open courseware consortium as a part of ocw.One thing I feel very bad is that no Indian university is involved in the project, though I don't know why but I feel it will be helpful for Indian students if some of the top universities like IIT's and BITS joins.
What you're saying is completely true. I know that everybody must say the same thing, but I just think that you put it in a way that everyone can understand. I'm sure you'll reach so many people with what you've got to say.
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