You might have seen today’s mobile computers news article titled: Online education gets serious as iTunes U sees 300 million downloads from Mobile Computing News. Click here for the article.
In my book: How to Reinvent Your Career, I list Itunes U as one of many great resources for free education. Many people changing careers are looking for free resources to help improve their skills. Here are the rest of the 10 free sites I suggest you consider:
- iTunes U: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ – iTunes have their university courses as well as regular podcasts available. Be sure to check out all of the free things iTunes has to offer.
- ‘Stuff you should know’ podcast: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-should-know-podcast.htm
- MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
- Computer training: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/topic.aspx?id=140
- How to use APA for writing papers: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
- Source for a lot of educational videos that help you to be on the cutting edge: http://wimp.com/
- Grammar guide: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
- Online tutorials: http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/ed4you.html
- Source for many educational training videos: http://websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/a/education_video.htm
- Career training resource: http://freecareertraining.org/
wow… quite a decent set of resources, wish I had this in the 90s when I was still a teacher!
Thanks . . .I think blogs can be a very helpful way to distribute some of this information for a lot of us that are still teaching.