Monday, August 27, 2012

It's Amazon Day!

We are Amazon Associates, and if you use our link to purchase an item, we receive a small commission.  Remember I said "small" and it in no way covers our web costs, but it's nice to help!  Please be aware that outside companies may use tracking cookies and you should read their terms and manage your browser cookies.  I have selected some links and books for you to consider.  Thanks for clicking.

Amazon Home Page
Shop Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2011
Visit Amazon's Book of the Month Site
Shop Amazon's Gift Cards - Perfect Anytime
Shop Amazon Computers - New Laptops for 2012
Shop Amazon's New Kindle Fire
Shop Amazon's Kindle Accessories Store
Shop Amazon's Gifting Page
Apple iPad 2 Tablet (16GB, Wifi,) NEWEST MODEL
Kindle DX, Free 3G, 9.7" E Ink Display, 3G Works Globally

Business Books


Sunday, August 19, 2012

Free Online Courses and Classes

This is an ever-changing area with many options.  Major universities are offering classes, some are several weeks in duration and others are hour-long videos.  If you live near a public library, a good librarian can help you find additional classes.

An article on eHow provides information about how to make the most of your online training.  Just scroll down to the Tips & Warnings section.  http://www.ehow.com/how_4930220_online-classes-yale-harvard-berkeley.html

Many top universities provide content and you may earn a degree.  http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/onlinedegreeprograms/

Carnegie Mellon University  http://oli.cmu.edu/ 
Courses are listed here:  http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/
 
Coursera   www.coursera.org 
Coursera offers courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania.

EdX currently offers HarvardX, MITx and UC BerkeleyX classes online for free.
Explore the classes at https://www.edx.org/courses.

GCFLearnFree.org  http://www.gcflearnfree.org
Courses include computer basics, reading (for English speakers and English learners), basic math and many other topics including how to create a budget.  Good tutorials for kids, too.  A full list of categories is at http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics.

Courses are listed at http://h30440.www3.hp.com/learningcenter/Classes/ClassAll.aspx.

You don’t have to have an Apple product to use iTunes.  Download iTunes onto your computer or phone and look for the iTunesU image.  Free classes from top universities are offered. 

Over 3,000 videos, most are relatively short, on a wide variety of topics.  Great for adults and younger students.

Over 7,000 video classes…and counting.  This site is targeting high school students, but some of the classes could be good introductions to subjects.  If you want to learn a new language or brush up on history or grammar, this is a good place to start.

Over 600 free online courses from introductory to advanced level, each takes between 1 and 50 hours to study.

London School of Business and Finance:  LSBF Global MBA http://www.lsbf.org.uk/
“This internationally renowned business school is offering its entire online MBA program for free. Anyone can sign up for their Facebook application to gain access to all of the course content from the program, including hundreds of hours of videos, lessons, assignments and educational resources. Students who would like to earn the degree can apply to LSBF and pay tuition retroactively at the end.”



Courses are listed by department at http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/.

Notre Dame OpenCourseWare   http://ocw.nd.edu/
Areas of study listed at http://ocw.nd.edu/courselist.

Free courses, books, audio books, online courses and much more.

Project Gutenberg  http://www.gutenberg.org/
Download free out of copyright ebooks.

Stanford’s Free Online Courses  http://stanford.edu/online/courses

UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events  http://webcast.berkeley.edu/  (also on iTunesU)

University of California Irvine  http://ocw.uci.edu/Welcome.aspx  - also on iTunesU
Courses are listed at http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/index.aspx.

This is an educational channel with lectures from many universities.