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Free Online Course Materials at MIT, The HigherEd Teaching and Learning Portal, a very nice collection of electronic literature

Here are three very nice resources that may seem disparite, but have lots in common. They all deal with sharing excellent sources that deal with creativity, teaching, and learning. Free Online Course Materials | OCW Scholar | MIT OpenCourseWare “OCW Scholar courses are designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them.” […]

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2011 02 18 ernie agglomeration
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Open CourseWare Search

Here is a tool to use to search for open courseware. Find OpenCourseWare with OCW Search “OCW Search is a search engine dedicated to helping you find the best free university courses online. Several universities publish their course materials for free online, under the OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative. OCW Search is an independent search engine that […]

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2010 06 21 ernie Searching and Researching
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Open Courseware & Death By Audio links for 2009-07-21

Wired Campus: David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort – Chronicle.com ” Do we professors, who live rather privileged lives relative to the vast majority of the planet’s population, have a moral obligation to make our teaching efforts as broadly impactful as possible, reaching out to bless the lives of as […]

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2009 07 21 ernie A Place to Bury Strangers
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Open courseware, academic podcasts, iPod for learning

While doing some research for an upcoming book I took a look at some resources dealing with open courseware and multimedia sites that can be used for learning. I admit that I was impressed with the richness of the resources available. The ‘free U’ is available. This is so much better than educational TV I […]

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2009 06 13 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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Revisiting the Free University

When I was a graduate student at a large university in the east in the early 1970’s, Thinking we were reinventing the world we had the experience of starting food co-ops, going to a free store – take or leave what you want with no charge, and developing or participating in the free university. The […]

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