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The 5 laws of Interface Design. Discover Free Online Courses & MOOCs. 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything. Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Playlist Center - playlists curated by lynda.com experts. Online College Courses - Explore 50+ Subjects. Use Your Computer From Anywhere: A Guide to Remote Controlling Your PC.

Education. Luminosity- improve brain power. EdX. For Teachers. Do you want to use Gapminder tools in your classroom?

For Teachers

Check out all our resources on this page and the downloads page to get started. For more info, contact our educational staff at mikael@gapminder.org and olof.granstrom@gapminder.org . Featured examples of Gapminder in education Teachers TV: Looking at statistics with Year 8 students[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]Thanks to: Bob LangGapminder and Worldmapper Geography for a changing world resources from the Geographical Association, UK.Thanks to: Paula CooperGapminder course at the NYC iSchool An experimental high school course that challenges 10th and 11th grade students to use a quantitive lens to analyze the last 200 years of global history.Thanks to: Jesse Spevack. 100 Free Online Tools to Learn a New Skill in Almost Anything. Training / Courses. 12 great free online courses.

Much ado has been made in recent years over the quickly rising cost of healthcare in the United States.

12 great free online courses

But the cost of college tuition and fees has skyrocketed at nearly twice that rate. Going to college today will cost a student 559% more than it did in 1985, on average. In an exciting talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Stanford professor Daphne Koller explains why she was inspired — alongside fellow professor Andrew Ng — to create Coursera, which brings great classes from top universities online for free.

Coursera classes have specific start dates, require students to take quizzes and turn in assignments, as well as allowing professors to customize their course into online chunks rather than simply recording their lectures. Even outside of Coursera, the number of college classes available on a computer screen rather than in a brick-and-mortar lecture hall is staggering. Inspired by Young, below, find 12 courses you could take for a completely free TED degree in Big Ideas.

Intelligent YouTube Channels. Below, we have gathered together some of the most intelligent video collections on YouTube.

Intelligent YouTube Channels

Learn something new every day - Memrise. 2nde. 700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free.

700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. Coursera - free online courses. Free Online Course Materials.

Des ressources proposant des contenus libres de droits. Voici quelques sites Web à consulter afin de trouver diverses ressources à utiliser librement dans vos présentations TNI ou autre.

Des ressources proposant des contenus libres de droits

Picto Il s’agit d’une banque constituée de plus de 600 images et illustrations, qui sont destinées à une utilisation pédagogique. Cette banque contient 102 images de dix personnages fantaisistes, allant du petit garçon à la souris en passant par le sapin de Noël et le piment. Le monde en Cette ressource propose plus de 23 000 images des régions du Québec et du monde. En plus des images de paysages, de monuments et d’animaux, on retrouve des images pour le domaine des sciences. Carrefour é La section « Multimédia » de Carrefour éducation propose un moteur permettant de rechercher des images libres de droits dans plusieurs banques d’images en même temps, dont celles mentionnées ci-dessus. 1. Sur le même thème. Eyesynth. Vision Through Hearing. Finance, Stanford University. We live in an uncertain world.

Finance, Stanford University

Every day, we need to make decisions about alternatives whose consequences cannot be predicted with certainty. Here are a few examples: You have saved 2000 dollars from your summer internship. Should you put it under your mattress, buy a Certificate of Deposit, Apple stock or an S&P 500 index fund? You manage a mutual fund specializing in technology stocks. In each of these situations, you need to commit resources (time, money, effort, etc.) in the face of uncertainty about the future.

Time is money: understand basic interest rates Evaluating investments: present value and internal rate of return Fixed-income markets: bonds, yield, duration, portfolio immunization Term structure of interest rates 5. Workload 5 hours per week. Technical Requirements. Algorithms, 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.