Free Classes - You Bet!!!

Free Classes - You Bet!!!

Free Classes - You Bet!

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Free Open Courseware Classes

OpenCourseWare is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and several other colleges, to put educational materials from undergraduate, and graduate level courses online, free and openly available to anyone, anywhere! There's a ton of great info in Open Courseware classes listed here, and it's all yours to grab for free!

African Virtual University - I don't believe AVU is free to any public, but based on what I've read about it, it does seem to be free or at least cheap for folks on the African Subcontinent.
http://www.avu.org/default.asp

Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/

China Quality OpenCourseware
http://www.core.org.cn/cn/jpkc/index_en.htmL

Fulbright Economics Teaching Program Open Courseware Initiate
http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/fetpocw.cfm

Harvard Medical School Open Courseware Initiative
http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public/

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare Project
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

Keio University's Opencourseware
http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/

KYOTO University's OpenCourseWare:
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare a free, open publication of Course Materials.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

North Carolina State University Open Courseware Labratory
http://open.ncsu.edu/about/

Osaka University Open Courseware
http://ocw.osaka-u.ac.jp/index.php?lang=

RAI Foundation Colleges Open Courseware
http://rcw.raifoundation.org//

Rice University Connexions, a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials.
Connexions is internationally focused, interdisciplinary, and grassroots organized. More than one million people from 157 countries are tapping into over 2,500 modules and almost 100 courses developed by a worldwide community of authors in fields ranging from computer science to music and from mathematics to biodiversity.
http://cnx.rice.edu/

Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) Open Content Initiative run by Foothill De-Anza Community College
http://sofia.fhda.edu/

Tokyo TechOpen Course Ware
http://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/index.php?lang=EN

The Tufts University Open Courseware
http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Utah State University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/

University of Tokyo OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/

University of Victoria's Computer Science department's course in Open Source Software Development.
http://turingmachine.org/opensource/

Waseda University OpenCourseWare
http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/index.html

Free Classes from Other sources

3D Buzz
http://www.3dbuzz.com - While 3d Buzz no longer has actual free classes that have homework assignments that you can turn in to get graded, it does have amazing amount of free VTMs ©, Video Training Magazines, which are downloadable videos that teach you how to run 3d related computer programs, like Maya, Lightwave, Motionbuilder, and many others.

World Lecture Hall
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/ - University of Texas at Austin Publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver course materials in any language.

Managing the Digital Enterprise®
http://digitalenterprise.org/ - An open educational site that surveys the many opportunities and challenges managers face in an increasingly digital world.

Eclipse Community Education Project
http://www.eclipse.org/ecesis/ - The goal of the Eclipse Community Education Project (ECESIS) is to promote the creation, improvement and distribution of commercial and academic quality Eclipse courseware, education and training technologies, and resource material.

E-Commerce Course Materials
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jlivnat/home.html" target="educate - Professor, Joshua Livnat, New York University, focuses on three major components: Valuation of e-commerce firms, critical managerial issues for e-commerce operations and the underlying business models.

Intranets and Portals
http://www.cs.depaul.edu/courses/syllabus.asp?course=ECT-480-802&q=2&y=2005&id=201 - The course concentrates on Corporate Portal technologies and emphasizes the role of Business Intelligence technologies

Open Seminar Platform Examples
http://openseminar.org/sites.html - Example sites that follow the OpenSeminar platform. These are examples for demo purposes, but are still free to view! The topics cover Software Engineering, Open Source, Memory Systems, and Autonomic Computing.

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Free Podcast Classes

Purdue University's Boilercast
http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/ - BoilerCast is a service available to all credit courses held on the West Lafayette campus and is capable of recording lectures from over 70 classrooms on campus with no lead time, and any other campus classroom with sufficient notice. The real benefit of BoilerCast is that the instructor orders the service at the beginning of the semester and everything else is automatically handled. Instructors do not need to worry about recording a class or posting in on their website as this is all handled for them as part of the service. Instructors using Purdue’s central course management system, Vista, can integrate the service into their course materials by simply creating a link to the course audio website set up for them.

Free Reference Material

Awesomely Amazing Articles, Books and MORE!
http://articles.8lo.net - Absolutely Free Books, Articles, and MORE - Enjoy the classics right now, right where you are, in front of your computer! This is website houses awesomely amazing books, articles and other thingsthat I'm slowly revamping in to html code. This is a hobby, and as such, it's not as big as I'd like it to be yet, but it is growing. The main purpose of this site is to make public domain books, free reprint articles and other awesomely amazing things to be grouped by similar subject and made available to the public through keyword searches, etc.

Net Library
http://www.netlibrary.com - Net Library is a huge repository of ebooks, which are available for the public to view online for free. These are amazing books, many of them are still in print now, or were in print a year or two ago, some of which are older. Many of these books are so new you won't find them in the stacks at most local librarys. You would have to buy at places like Barnes and Nobles for 60.00 a piece... There are many different libraries that have netlibrary accounts that you can sign up with. However, if, like me, you do not have one of those libraries available in your local area, you can go to http://www.librarypoint.org/netlibrary_signup.asp to sign up for a free netlibrary account. It may take the reference librarian there a day or two to get you an account, but once (s)he does send you the log in info via email, log on to Netlibrary & get access to over 40,000 eBooks! :)

Project Gutenburg
http://www.gutenburg.org - Project Gutenburg is a MASSIVE online library of public domain books. All Project Gutenberg eBooks are free as in free beer for anyone living in the United States: You may download eBooks for your personal use for free. Most Project Gutenberg eBooks are also free as in free speech: You may copy them, give them away and use them in any way you like. See the license page for details.

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/ - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

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