Well, yes, free knowledge IS what the Internet brings us, but here are some free online learning opportunities:
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes all of their course materials. For free. Special section for high school instruction and subject index available.
iTunes U offers If you’re an iTunes user, you’ve probably seen the mortarboard icon that links [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘libraries’
November 4, 2009
Free Knowledge
September 30, 2009
Darwin and Social Media
Need a break from social media? Sometimes you just need a break from the intensity of a project, and my friend Sarah has an interesting escape–she has a book of Robert Frost or something else mind-numbingly complicated on her desk, and when she needs a break, she picks up the tome. She says [...]
August 17, 2009
Serenity Now
I’m headed off to the Midwest–a place I think of as verdant green with bucolic farm scenery. I wonder if I’ll find any unexpected uses of technology there….
Where have you found unexpected tech?
As libraries reinvent themselves for the new century, that’s one place you might find it. Some libraries are even lending e-book [...]
July 7, 2009
Book Review: Wikinomics
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams provides a good explanation of what wikis are and how businesses are using them. The combination of innovation and creativity that they invite fosters collaborative work in the new economy. Although some of the 2007 references are already dated [...]
