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2016 Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education
2015
50 most popular moocs of all time
#1
Understanding IELTS: Techniques for English Language Tests if
offered by FutureLearn, the UK's first MOOC platform. The course
focuses on preparing students for IELTS (International English
Language Testing System) tests, the most popular English language
test for higher education and global migration. IELTS tests are
used by over 9,000 organizations and recorded over 2.2 million
individual administrations last year. The course centers around
familiarizing students with all portions of the test,
understanding the assessment process, and getting feedback from
other students on written and spoken English skills. The course
has received almost 700000 students in its two runs, and is taught
by Chris Cavey.
Additional info:
Platform: FutureLearn https://www.futurelearn.com/
Institution homepage: British Council
Total enrollment: 690567
Lecturers: Chris Cavey
2.
Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems -
Part 1 / University of Maryland
https://www.coursera.org/ Lecturers: Adam Porter
The MOOC Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld
Systems - Part 1, from University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)
on Coursera, covers the basics of developing mobile apps for the
smartphones and tablets on the Android platform, from development
environment setup to creating apps. This course and Part 2 are
part of the Coursera Mobile Cloud Computing with Android
specialization track. Total enrollment since the course's launch
is about 600000K. The course, which has both archives and several
sessions scheduled for 2015, is taught by Dr. Adam Porter of UMD.
Porter is a professor of Computer Science at UMD and the UMD
Institute for Advanced Studies. He has won awards for teaching and
research, and has served on the editorial boards of several
scientific journals.
FREE EDUCATION: A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
is a category of online course where the participants are
distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the
web. MOOCs are a very recent variant of online education, which
itself is a form of distance education. MOOCs are open and one of
their main features has been the level of connection and
collaboration by participants online. The positive learning
experience is at the heart of these learning events. The best know
MOOCs are CCK08, PLENK2010, DS106, which had multiple
facilitators. The most recent developments in MOOCs digres from
this collaborative development and resemble more traditional
courses. They allow for a single teacher to teach tens or hundreds
of thousands of students. Researchers of MOOCs put question marks
by the pedagogies and teaching strategies used in this model of
MOOCs as they follow a traditional top-down teaching approach that
is not valued in the initial MOOCs because of their connective
nature. Even though the new MOOCs are open, the technologies used
and the lack of human contact involved in their participation
might negatively effect the quality of the learning experience.
However, they have received extensive publicity as they seem to
make e-learning scalable and might make it profitable.
Students in MOOC's typically watch short video lectures, complete
automatically graded tests or assignments, and use online
communities to work through concepts they don't understand. In
most cases, no official university credit is given, but providers
of the programs plan to make money by offering students who finish
the courses a certificate if they pay a small fee.
Udacity, Udemy and edX—the latter of which is backed by Harvard
University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—are all
competing with Coursera for attention, students and venture
dollars.
Udacity's founder, Sebastian Thrun, said his company planned to
remain focused on computer science and related fields. "We are not
doing humanities."
Courses offered by Stanford University, the California Institute
of Technology, Princeton University and others, has attracted
attention. The courses do however not offer the same level of
credits and recognition that traditional courses from these
institutions award to paying students. edX, an effort run jointly
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University,
and the University of California at Berkeley; and Udemy, a company
offering free courses that are mainly taught by book authors.
Sign up and join a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on entrepreneurship in education. The course will be designed after the old style - building community and learning together socially rather than watching video clips and answering multiple choice questions. There is an incredible group of experts (people who have done it before and succeeded) that will be coming together to share ideas. "Ed Startup 101" is completely free and is open to anyone. The course meets Wed mornings online from August 27 to December 14th., 2012. You can participate in all of the activities or just lurk - whichever you prefer. www.edstartup.net
IT'S YOUR TIME SO THEN . . .
HOW MUCH IS THAT FREE COURSE WORTH?
It's just irresponsible of institutions like Princeton, Harvard, MIT, etc... to put their respected names on this concept without believing in it. If they believed in it, they would offer the actual credits to go with it. When these well-respected universities lend their names to this mockery of higher education it gets translated to a different idea with the minor leagues (aka community colleges).
DOES IT HELP YOU GET A JOB OR IS IT FOR RETIRED PEOPLE WHO STILL WANT TO LEARN?
Find Free online programming - Applications and Online Tutorials ORIENTATION, PROGRAMMING, Mac, ASP, COLD FUSION, (D)HTML & CCS, JAVASCRIPT, PERL, CGI, PHP, SQL, VB, XML
About Coursera
Coursera, which was founded in fall 2011 by two Stanford
University professors, signed its first partners and brought in
$16 million in venture backing in April. It now has 33 partners.
Under the current business model, universities develop their own
classes, and Coursera provides the online platform and operational
support free of charge.Very high quality free classes available
from stanford and berkeley through coursera. Coursera is committed
to making the best education in the world freely available to any
person who seeks it. We envision people throughout the world, in
both developed and developing countries, using our platform to get
access to world-leading education that has so far been available
only to a tiny few. We see them using this education to improve
their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they
live in. Brown University, University of Florida, Columbia
University, Emory University, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine—give the for-profit
company a larger footprint in the increasingly crowded market for
the so-called "massive, open online courses."
When University of Virginia trustees ousted their president l - a
decision they later reversed - one reason cited was concern about
being left behind online. (Virginia was included in Tuesday's
announcement.)
nytimes.com/2012/07/18/education/top-universities-test-the-online-appeal-of-free.html
Saylor.org
A free and open collection of college level courses
. There are no registrations or fees required to take our courses,
and you will earn a certificate upon completion of each course.
Because we are not accredited, you will not earn a college degree
or diploma; however, our team of experienced college professors
has designed each course so you will be able to achieve the same
learning objectives as students enrolled in traditional colleges.
OPEN CLASS online database course by Standford
Distance Learning - Free College Education on the Net. But is it accredited?
The “first nonprofit, tuition-free online university.”
Make a MOOC: Shaken or Stirred
Since the tsunami is upon us, why fight the MOOCarama? As a public
service for those ready to join the fray, I have create a new web
tool that, via new biometric code sensors, reads he aura of your
interests, and generates the name and hashtag for your new MOOC.
And then you can start the angel funding by tweeting it! Try out
the new
MOOC Shaker
The basic structure is a set of words as a “prefix”, then an
adjective, then a topic, then a colon and a cheesy subtitle. I
found a lot of material
Absurd College Course generator
as well as from the sources
Stephen Downes lists in his corral of MOOCs
. Go ahead, you know you want to shake, rattle, and roll a MOOC!
Kahn is a breakthrough in global education? Stand Alone Virtual
School that becomes the operating system and teacher becomes the
coach.
Kahn Academy
- All on
Youtube
. Free for Everyone. He channels information of 1 week in school
in 10 minutes.Algebra, Geometry, trigonometry, economics, physics,
SAT prep, GMAT prep.
bill gates funds it and sits their WITH HIS KID while using it.
Academic Earth is Similar to Kahn
Free-Ed.Net
Free education on the Internet. No books to buy, no hidden fees
Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different
vocational and academic disciplines, committed to providing
quality online education--free of charge--to a vast global
audience. The course materials and tutorials you find here are not
simply collections of short how-to articles that you can find in
newsstand magazines. No. Free-Ed.Net courses cover entire
vocational and academic topics. Taking a course at Free-Ed.Net is
like taking a course from a traditional school or college. It's
hard work, but the payoff is great.
What you can get for free from Packt
Code Downloads - Download and support pages
Even if you haven't bought the book, you can download the code
files for complete books in exchange for your email address.
Packt Article Network - Visit the Packt Article Network to read
through articles, interviews, case studies and tutorials written
on a number of different subjects.
Top 5 Free Things from Packt! AJAX Whiteboard eBook, Sample Moodle
eBook, Open Source CMS Sample eBook, Planning TrixBox Deployment
free chapter
Making its way to number four is a PDF version of chapter 4 from
the TrixBox Made Easy book, ImageMagick Color Tricks.
FreeTechBooks - Find Free online computer science books and
lecture notes
A collection of computer books and lecture notes which are
published under free / open licenses. They have books in many
categories already, including programming, scripting, systems, and
computer science.
Class notes, sound recordings of the professor's lectures, handouts, syllabus, reading assigments, exams, everything, for 1,600 courses. They want people around the world to use this everywhere; India, China, Malaysia, Europe. Russia. Everywhere. Students use this for extra study, or to study additional subjects, or to study if they can't afford a good university. Professors and teachers use this to improve their teaching material. they also have videos of all sorts of interesting video presentations at www.mitef.org on business, tech, science, and many other diverse subjects... by nationally reknown speakers...
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CONGRESSIONAL PAGE PROGRAM where 11TH GRADERS GET PAID TO
LEARN
Currently 11TH graders who apply are appointed by their Member of
Congress to serve as Pages in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Forty-four slots are reserved for Republican Pages.
To be eligible for the summer program
, applicants must be 16 years of age at the time of their
appointment, have a “B” average or better, and be willing to serve
as a page for approximately one month during the summer before or
after their junior year of high school. The definition of a “B”
average is a 3.0 on a 4-point scale, or an 80 or better on a
100-point scale. Summer applicants who do not meet the minimum GPA
requirement may have their application reviewed by the Page Board
for consideration. Applicants should submit a completed
application to their Member of Congress for review and
recommendation. The Speaker's Office will not accept applications
from students directly - ONLY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MAY FORWARD AN
APPLICATION.
An official transcript of all grades (from 9th grade through at
least the first semester of the current year) is required to
verify the cumulative grade point average of “B” or better in the
major courses. Only grades in the following subject areas will be
included in the GPA tally: English, science, mathematics, social
studies, and foreign language - ELECTIVES ARE NOT INCLUDED.
Along with the application form and transcript, the following
items are required: social security number, a signed parental
consent form, a 50-100 word essay on why they want to become a
Republican Page or a Democratic Page, a resume of extra-curricular
activities, three letters of recommendation, and a letter of
support from the sponsoring Republican or Democratic Member of
Congress. Member must also submit a member Certification form
indicating their knowledge of sponsorship of the student. The
committee will consider only complete applications submitted in
writing.
The workday begins at 9:00 a.m. for summer Pages and extends to at
least 5:00 p.m., or until the House adjourns for the day -
whichever is later. The Pages report to their Page Supervisor
where the first order of the day may be filing the
Congressional Record
from the previous day's proceedings. The Pages serve primarily as
messengers, delivering legislative material between the various
buildings of Capitol Hill. During the course of the day, the Pages
accumulate points for “runs” (or deliveries). Those with the
highest number of points may be excused early when the House goes
into late-night sessions.
The dress required for males is a navy blazer, long sleeved white
shirt, dark gray slacks, dark socks, dark shoes, and a standard
issue tie. For females, a navy blazer, long sleeved white blouse,
dark gray skirt or dark gray pants, dark shoes, appropriate hose,
and a standard issue tie are required. The ties, which are
provided during orientation, are navy with red and white stripes.
Pages are required to live at the Page Residence Hall, 501 First
Street, S.E., under the supervision of a director, assistant
director, and four proctors who reside on the premises. The first
floor is set aside for males and the second floor for females.
The triple rooms are furnished with twin beds, dressers, desks,
and chairs. Each of the rooms has a large walk-in closet, a study
area, toll-controlled telephone, private bathroom, and three
air-conditioning units. A community room with color television is
available on the first floor. A kitchen and pantry area is also
available for Page use. A laundry room, study room, computer room,
and fitness room are all located on the second floor.
The pages are paid approximately $1,568 gross per month, with an
automatic payroll deduction of $400 to cover the cost of the
dorm and five breakfasts, five lunch and seven dinner meals per
week.
It will be prorated for less than a month. They are responsible
for their transportation to and from Washington and their uniform.
In addition, a one-time refundable security deposit of $100
payable to the U.S. Treasury is required for the dorm.
Please keep in mind that Pages are employees of the U.S. House of
Representatives, and are an important part of the legislative
process. Before making your decision to become a page, it is
imperative that you understand that all family activities, as well
as home school and community activities, which would interrupt
your Page School and/or work activities must be put on hold until
you are no longer a Page. Pages will not be permitted to return
home to attend family reunions, parent promotion ceremonies,
family trips, home school activities such as conferences, sports
events, proms, etc., if they occur during the work week.
Page Documentary Video - Want to actually see "hands-on" what Page
does, where a Page lives and receives schooling (school year
Pages)? This documentary video gives a close look at the Page
School, Residence Hall, and work aspects of the Program. You may
order a copy by contacting the Legislative Resource Center at
(202) 226-5200 or mail your request, along with your payment of
$15.00 to:
Legislative Resource Center
B-106 Cannon House Office Building (HOB)
Washington, DC 20515