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CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. 8 Awesome Websites to Take Free College Courses Online. The sites below offer free online college level classes to anyone willing to spend the time on them.

8 Awesome Websites to Take Free College Courses Online

Each differ – some have all of the materials online and some may want you to purchase (borrow?) A textbook to follow along with. Each of them offers complete courses with only one thing missing: the credit for the coursework to put towards a matriculated degree. MIT OpenCourseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a pioneer in offering online college courses and they still have the most diverse and in-depth collection of classes available anywhere.

Carnegie Mellon OpenLearning Carnegie Mellon, based in Pittsburgh, PA, has a variety of courses available for anyone online. Khan Acadamy Salman Khan began putting videos on YouTube to help with tutoring a cousin. Today, there are over 1000 videos on KhanAcademy, which is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit. University of California at Berkeley Stanford University iTunesU Tufts OpenCourseware Open University LearningSpace Johns Hopkins OpenCourseware. Materials for citation and to share. Teaching Resources. REFERENCE. Learning Resources. Keybr.com - Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! Conducting Research. School Library Media Specialist Portfolio. Amid boycott, Elsevier backtracks on research bill - Technology & Science. One of the largest academic publishers in the world withdrew its support Monday from a controversial U.S. bill, the Research Works Act, that critics feel would restrict public access to published, publicly-funded research.

Amid boycott, Elsevier backtracks on research bill - Technology & Science

The change of heart by Dutch publisher Elsevier follows a boycott of its journals and publishing ventures by thousands of researchers around the world. More than 7,400 researchers, including several in Canada, publicly declared they would not publish in Elsevier journals or peer review papers for those journals, or do editing work for them as part of a "Cost of Knowledge" boycott launched in January.

The researchers normally provide those services for free to scieintific journal publishers. The Research Works Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in December, states: No federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that Currently, the U.S. Online Resources. Time Zone Map. 15 Incredible Libraries Around the World. Moldova National Library – Photograph by Daniel Zollinger These pillars of higher learning are also home to some of the world’s most incredible architecture.

15 Incredible Libraries Around the World

Below is a small collection of stunning libraries around the globe. From the historical to the modern, these centres of knowledge and learning also preserve the history and culture of their respective periods. Personally, I would find it hard to concentrate in some of these places, they are too beautiful for the eye not to wander. 1. Photograph by Peter Bond Photograph by Peter Bond 2. Photograph by James Gillard Photograph by James Gillard 3. 12-05TVEvolution-Infographic_web.jpg (JPEG Image, 667x1000 pixels) From Cartography to Card Catalogs: The History of Information Organization [Infographic] In today’s information age, we enjoy all but instant digital access to the world’s collected knowledge.

From Cartography to Card Catalogs: The History of Information Organization [Infographic]

Consider: • Wikipedia contains more than 19 million articles in some 270 languages. • Google aims to catalog the world’s supply of printed knowledge by scanning all of the estimated 130 million books published in modern history.• And the world wide web itself contains more than 7 billion pages. But unfiltered access to unlimited sources is useless if you can’t find what you need. The development of sophisticated systems of organization—helping us retrieve the one piece of information we need from the endless expanse of data—is one of humanity’s most significant accomplishments (con’d after graphic.) Click here to see how info has been organized throughout the ages You’re welcome to embed this image on your blog, the code is here: [sourcecode language="html"] <a href=" src=" alt="A History of Information Organization | Mindjet" /></a> [/sourcecode] One of these things is not like the other.