I find it always amazing to hear on all broadcast channels how impossible it is for things to change. All institutions, some listed below; which wisely built a model that made knowledge reachable for the mass, got not only a short term but also long term rewards.
It’s not about positive discrimination, though they understood one concept I heard from a teacher: “It’s not by dividing wealth that you’ll make the poor richer”. I transofrmed by “It’s not by keeping knowledge locked in vaults that you’ll make a society smarter”. The institutions listed below, and many others, chose to set the starting treshold , knowledge, easier to reach allowing an entire generation to use it as a springboard and reach new heights. That’s why keeping internet free and reachable is a fight I’m likely to embrace.
I would like to thank Johnathan Chung who inspired this post.
Here is decades’ worth of knowledge freely available online for those who love to learn.
What are your favorite sites to learn from? What sites would you add to this list? Here are some listed by my credit above. Would you share yours?
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Academic Earth – Online courses from the world’s top scholars
http://academicearth.org/
TED – Technology, Entertainment, & Design
http://www.ted.com/
MIT Open CourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/
About U. – Collection of free online courses from About.com
http://u.about.com/
Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
YouTube EDU
http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400
The Open University – Study at the OU
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
University of the People
www.uopeople.org
University of Reddit
http://ureddit.com/
Open Culture – The best free cultural & educational media on the web
http://openculture.com/
VideoLectures – Exchange ideas & share knowledge
http://videolectures.net/
CosmoLearning – Free educational website with thousands of courses & documentaries
http://www.cosmolearning.com/