Free Online Courses and Free Video Lectures
http://www.learnerstv.com/
Video Courses :
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Biology
Courses
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Physics
Courses
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Chemistry Courses
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Maths
Courses
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Computer Courses
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Medical
Courses
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Engineering Courses
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Management
Courses
http://freevideolectures.com/business.html
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Boston Globe
Bizcast Archive
Boston.com Business2005
- 2006
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Inspiration for
Entrepreneurs Podcast
http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/
Interviews and practical advice for
startups and businesses of all sizes. Real inspiration, real insight and the secrets
of success from real entrepreneurs.
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Start-Up Resource
Center Webinar
Inc.com
The Idea, Testing the Idea, Protecting
the Idea, Finding Good People, Structuring the Business, Understanding Cash Flow,
Finding the Money, The Business Plan, Starting Out on the Right Foot etc...
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Organizational Leadership and Teamwork
UC Berkeley Spring
2007
Qualitative management principles
and techniques used to maximize labor productivity, employee satisfaction, and organizational
performance in work settings. Topics covered include job attitudes, person-job fit,
worker motivation, leadership, organizational culture, technology and innovation
management, communication, groups and teams, decision-making, and power and influence.
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Business &
Management
Boston College
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International
Business
New Jersey Institute
of Technology
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Management of
Telecommunications
New Jersey Institute
of Technology
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Information Technology,
Business & Law
New Jersey Institute
of Technology
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Strategic Management
New Jersey Institute
of Technology
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Project management
New Jersey Institute
of Technology
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Management and
Accounting
WKU, Distance Learning
Podcast
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Lucas Global Leadership Lectures
San Jose State University
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Business &
Management, Communcation Skills
Nanyang Technological
Institute
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Managing for
excellence, Preserving entrepreneurship in large-size companies, Business writing,
Conflict with teams, people skills: dealing with conflict, managing meetings, presentation
power, speaking effectively, Ten Commandments for an effective resume etc...
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Dynamic Leadership:
Using Improvisation in Business
MITOCW Fall 2004,
videos are available only for the following topics
Introduction of leadership learning
from Improvisation, listening to people, Workplace scenarios and being the leader,
why improvisation tools create a path to gaining skills and attributes of leadership?
Leader as creativity cultivator etc...
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Community-Owned
Enterprise and Civic Participation
MITOCW Spring 2005
videos are available only for the following topics
Banking and financing, Privatization
and Gainsharing
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Global Entrepreneurship Lab: Being an Entrepreneur
MIT OCW Fall 2004
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How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services
MITOCW Spring 2004
videos are available only for the following topics
Who Develops Breakthrough New Products
and Services - Users or Manufacturers? Systematic Generation of Ideas for "Breakthrough"
New Products and Services - the "Lead User Method", Systematic Generation of Incremental
Improvements to Existing Products and Services. Traditional Marketing Research Concept
Generation Techniques.
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Kevin and Debra
Rollins Center for eBusiness
Marriott School
It has Huge collection of video lectures
on various topics. One can search either by company or course or presenter.
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Accounting, Business
and Analysis
Indiana
Multimedia Distribution
System (IMDS)
Accounting and Business, Double entry
accounting, Accrual and Cash Basis Accounting, Merchandising Accounting, Internal
Control, Inventory, Depreciation, Stocks and Bonds, Debt vs Equity & Financial
Statement analysis, managerial accounting, Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit
Analysis. Differential Analysis etc...
·
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
Mitchel Resnick, LEGO
Papert Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media LabHead,
Online Universities
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2008/11/100-awesome-ivy-league-video-lectures/
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Yale University
– [Free Yale college courses online]
http://oyc.yale.edu/
this is one lecture "Lecture 3 -
Newton
's Laws of Motion" Html, mp3, Flash video available
http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/fundamentals-of-physics/content/sessions/lecture03.html
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Open culture
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Stanford University
Free Courses Online
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Free Online Classes
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/onlinecourses/a/FreeClasses.htm
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Free Computer Training
and Courses Online:
http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat1.html
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Universities with the Best Free Online Courses
http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html
No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses
online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for
people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current
field.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
If you are looking for a wide range of free cources offered online, MIT is your
best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare
project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number
of different languages. Students all over the world use OpenCourseWare and 96 percent
of visitors to this site say they would recommend it to someone else.
2. Open University (open.ac.uk)
The Open University is the
UK
's largest academic institution. The school's OpenLearn website gives everyone free
access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University.
Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education,
IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.
3.
Carnegie Mellon University
(cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University
offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open
Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory
college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course
options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French
and physics.
4.
Tufts University
(tufts.edu)
Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are
sorted by school (i.e. School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, etc.) and
include assignments, lecture notes and other supplementary materials.
5. Stanford (stanford.edu)
Stanford University
, one of the world's leading
academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access
to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and
played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have
iTunes, you can download it here for
free.
6.
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
(berkeley.edu)
UC Berkeley, one of the
best public universities in the nation, has been offering live and on-demand
webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of UC Berkeley courses, both current
and archived, are now available as podcasts and webcasts. Courses cover a range
of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer programming, engineering,
psychology, legal studies and philosophy.
7.
Utah State University
(usu.edu)
Utah State University
also provides access to free online courses. Study options include everything from
anthropology to physics and theatre arts. These comprehensive text-based courses
can be downloaded as zip files or viewed directly on the site.
8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)
Kutztown
University
's
Small Business Development Center
offers the largest collection of free business courses available on the web. Course
topics include accounting, finance, government, business law, marketing and sales.
Comprehensive text, interactive case studies, slides, graphics and streaming audio
help to demonstrate the concepts presented in each course.
9.
University of Southern Queensland
(usq.edu.au)
The
University
of
Southern Queensland
in
Australia
provides free online access to a number of different courses through yet another
OpenCourseWare initiative. Courses from each of the five faculties are available,
covering a broad range of topics, including communication, science, career planning,
technology, teaching and multimedia creation.
10.
University
of
California
,
Irvine
(uci.edu)
UC Irvine, one of the nation's
top public universities, recently joined the OCW Consortium and began providing
free university level courses online. Right now, there are only a handful of options
to choose from, but this list is growing. Current courses cover topics like financial
planning, human resources, capital ma
· Free Science Courses Online
Some of the world's most prestigious universities now
offer free science courses online. Read on to find out where you can find these
courses and to learn what you can get out of each.
1. MIT OpenCourseWare
(mit.edu)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has hundreds of undergraduate and
graduate science courses available online for free. Both the biology program and
the chemistry program at MIT are ranked among the top three
biological science graduate programs in the nation. Each free course is
led by a competent instructor and includes lectures, assignments and exams.
2.
Carnegie Mellon University
(cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative provides a wide variety of openly available
and completely free online science courses and course material. Videos, text, tutors,
virtual lab activities and interactive exercises allow you to take entire courses
in an online format.
3.
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
(berkeley.edu)
UC Berkeley first launched an audio podcast program in 2006. The school now provides
nearly 100 full courses that are completely free. Science offerings include courses
in biology,
microbiology, chemistry, physics, animal behavior and astronomy. Lectures
are recorded in mp3 and real media video.
4. Tufts OpenCourseWare
(tufts.edu)
Tufts University
also makes their world-renowned courses available through an OpenCourseWare program.
Science offerings include everything from physics to microbiology. Courses can be
viewed in slides or PDF format.
5.
University of Southern Queensland
(usq.edu.au)
The
University
of
Southern Queensland
in
Australia
offers a free general science course as part of the USQ Tertiary Preparation Program
(TPP). The course includes study modules, reading lists, assignments and online
tests and examinations.
6.
Utah State University
(usu.edu)
The Utah State University Physics and Anthropology Departments publish free science
courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. The instructor led courses include
downloadable lecture notes, homework and more.
7.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health (jhsph.edu)
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare project offers
access to the school's most popular graduate level
health science courses. All courses are free of charge and include lecture
materials, reading lists and more.
8.
University of Tokyo
(u-tokyo.ac.jp)
The
University of Tokyo
offers a number of free science courses online through their OpenCourseWare program.
Courses are led by an instructor and include lecture notes, assignments and various
materials in a PDF format.
9. Open University
(open.ac.uk)
Britain
's Open University offers an extensive collection of free science and
science technology courses, with an emphasis on science and nature. Most
courses are at the introductory or intermediate level. Course materials include
both text and multimedia elements.
10.
Delft University
of Technology (tudelft.nl)
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Free Online Technology Courses
The days are gone when our only tools
were spears, fishing poles and stone knives. Nowadays, technology dominates everything
from communications and energy production to transportation. If you feel overwhelmed,
check out some of these free online courses to build your technological savvy.
1. The Open University,
UK
(open.ac.uk)
Britain
's Open University offers a wide variety of courses in technological matters. These
classes include easy-to-follow text lectures and as many as 75 different pages featuring
text, pictures, illustrations and interactive exercises. Email registration gains
you access to student forums and formal quizzes.
2. The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (mit.edu)
MIT's storied OpenCourseWare courses are based primarily on lecture notes in PDF
format. Some courses include assignments and exams, while all boast an extensive
reading list. Each course also provides the option to download materials for offline
use.
3.
Stanford University
iTunes (stanford.edu)
Stanford University
offers a series of free lectures on technology through their Stanford iTunes project.
Specific subjects include sensing technologies, the Facebook phenomenon, computer
gaming and software development. Both audio and video files are offered. To take
advantage of these classes you'll need the iTunes software, which is available for
free here.
4. UC-Berkely iTunes (berkeley.edu)
These courses are in-depth introductions to some of the hottest topics in contemporary
technology. They aren't for the time-strapped though; some courses include as many
as 62 separate tracks, each of which may be up to an hour long.
5.
Utah State University
(usu.edu)
These free online courses offered by
Utah State University
include PDF slides, lecture notes and cool outside links to sites about bizarre
boiling, surface tension and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy. The notes and assignments
can be very technical, so these courses aren't for beginners.
6. The Digital Education
Network (actden.com)
This cartoon-led course uses a variety of colorful characters and animations to
introduce users to such modern necessities as operating systems, the Internet and
Windows NT. This Microsoft-geared tutorial is for absolute neophytes, but there's
hardly a friendlier introduction around.
7.
Carnegie Mellon University
(cmu.edu)
This free online course from
Carnegie Mellon University
includes modules on subjects such as contacting bodies, force vectors and multi-force
interactions. A registration option is offered that allows students to save their
work. Several modules include interactive exercises so stimulating they're almost
addictive.
8.
University of Southern Queensland
(usq.edu.au)
Rather than giving a technical overview into a specific technology, this interesting
course examines the broad-scale effects of technology on society. Subjects examined
include politics, power, the history of technology and sustainability. Expect to
be faced with such unusual questions as 'Did hunter-gatherers live better lives
than we do?'
9. The Tokyo Institute
of Technology (titech.ac.jp)
These graduate-level courses are not for the faint of heart - students should already
be familiar with terms like Fourier coefficient, vanishing derivatives and Chebyshev
polynomial. The PDF-format lecture notes include colorful yet dense diagrams, and
some courses feature actual tests.
10.
Delft
University of Technology, Netherlands
(tudelft.nl)
These videos are of lectures at
Delft Technical University
and are aimed at students with substantial prior knowledge. No registration is required.
Each course includes handy course summaries, PDF course introductions and video
components.