Fwd: Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online
Aya Magdi Khalil
From: بسمات سيف الدين <basama...@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/4/21
Subject: Fwd: Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online
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Cc: ayama...@gmail.com
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Ranked
as the #1 public school in the United States, Berkeley offers podcasts
and webcasts of amazing professors lecturing. Each course has an RSS
feed so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and
notes you can check the professors homepage, which is usually given in
the first lecture or google his name. Even though the notes, homework
and tests are not directly printed in the berkeley website, as they are
in MIT and other courseware sites, it's not a problem to find them. I
personally tried to use it for John Wawrzynek's 
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ranked 7th nationally in
the United States. Many of the courses do not have video lectures.
Instead, they have notes in PDF format along with tests and homework.
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university ranked equal with
Berkeley. Though registration is not required they have a registered
user mode that allows you to keep track of your scores and progress.
Currently 11 courses are offered. The courses are basically ebooks in a
frame-based easy to use navigation system with an occasional powerful
interactive Java Applet for practice and testing.
Utah State has a very familiar structure as MIT OCW with large available course listing.
Tufts University in Massachusetts has a very familiar structure as MIT OCW with large available course listing.
European site called Open University's OpenLearn supported by The
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Contains many online course and a
different style content management system. I was unable to find
anything interactive or any streaming media, though it does have forums
for each course. Appears to function mostly as a large educational
ebook library.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health offers
health based lecture notes and assigments. You'll find the JHSPH OCW
website uses the same familiar navigation structure as MIT OCW. The
notes are formatted much more cleanly but I haven't seen exams, and
their search bar seems to be broken.
CNX.org is an open-content library of course materials developed by
Rice University. It has a huge database of content which is very useful
for people who know what they're looking for. It does have ebook style
higher level courses courses you can choose from.
Initiative is led by Foothill College which contains 8 free courses.
Contains posted lectures and classnotes. Some of the courses even contain 
From the creators of wikipedia, Wikiversity describes itself as being a
community seeking to create and use learning materials and activities.
Wikibooks is also incredibly powerful already containing everything
from a detailed guide to learning French to Organic Chemistry and
Nanotechnology.Video lecture Courses: http://www.learnerstv.com/
Audio and Video courses in languages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
Getting Pdfs and Presentations: http://www.2dix.com/
Ranking of World Universities: http://www.webometrics.info/
Free e - books: http://www.free-ebooks.ws/
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