Recently I found a blog post that lists great resources for on-line learning.
Here is the link and the list. Enjoy!
1. Coursera
2. Udacity
3. Khan Academy
4. MIT OpenCourseWare
5. Open Education Consortium
6. Academic Earth
7. Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
EXTRA – Treehouse
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
2014-08-20
2012-08-19
Khan Academy Programming
Coders Get Instant Gratification With Khan Academy Programming | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: The tutorials are interactive and live entirely in the browser. Instead of a video, each lesson contains a pane on the left side for students to enter code and a pane on the right that displays the output. The first lesson walks students through the process of writing code that will draw a face in the right pane. After learning to generate graphics, students work up to animation and eventually to games, such as a Pac-Man clone.
2012-04-23
Is the University paradigm changing?
There are many signs that the way we learn and teach at the University level may be approaching a paradigm shift.
What is your opinion on this subject?
The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever | Wired Science | Wired.com CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, a graduate- level course taught by Stanford professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig - Last fall, the university in the heart of Silicon Valley did something it had never done before: It opened up three classes, including CS221, to anyone with a web connection. Lectures and assignments—the same ones administered in the regular on-campus class—would be posted and auto-graded online each week. Midterms and finals would have strict deadlines. Stanford wouldn’t issue course credit to the non-matriculated students. But at the end of the term, students who completed a course would be awarded an official Statement of Accomplishment.
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. - Forbes: The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments.
PayPal Co-Founder Hands Out $100,000 Fellowships To Not Go To College : The Two-Way : NPR: Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, is proposing a controversial path toward more rapid innovation. Today his Thiel Foundation announced that it was giving 24 people under 20 $100,000 fellowships to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies.
More:
Udacity/
Coursera
MITx
iTunes U
What is your opinion on this subject?
The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever | Wired Science | Wired.com CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, a graduate- level course taught by Stanford professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig - Last fall, the university in the heart of Silicon Valley did something it had never done before: It opened up three classes, including CS221, to anyone with a web connection. Lectures and assignments—the same ones administered in the regular on-campus class—would be posted and auto-graded online each week. Midterms and finals would have strict deadlines. Stanford wouldn’t issue course credit to the non-matriculated students. But at the end of the term, students who completed a course would be awarded an official Statement of Accomplishment.
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. - Forbes: The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments.
PayPal Co-Founder Hands Out $100,000 Fellowships To Not Go To College : The Two-Way : NPR: Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, is proposing a controversial path toward more rapid innovation. Today his Thiel Foundation announced that it was giving 24 people under 20 $100,000 fellowships to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies.
More:
Udacity/
Coursera
MITx
iTunes U
2011-11-17
Computer Programming for Children
New and more sophisticated tools are changing the way that the next generation learns to program computers. Children can now create elaborate scenes and games without the cryptic commands that were once the only way to tell computers what to do. The most talented children can also use some of the sophisticated tools normally used by professional programmers, because the tools are now often easy enough for someone to pick up with only a few months of study.
Source: NYTimes.com
2011-09-22
Student advice
My (unsolicited) advice to all students: let the first week of the year be the first week of study.
Get a calendar, set the deadlines, and find ways to spread the effort across the weeks. This will change the game from "trying to pass" to "trying to ace" courses.
Good work!
Get a calendar, set the deadlines, and find ways to spread the effort across the weeks. This will change the game from "trying to pass" to "trying to ace" courses.
Good work!
2011-05-09
e-readers in research
A study on how University of Washington students use the Kindle arrived at an interesting conclusion:
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There is no e-reader that supports what we found these students doing
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