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The James Martin 21st Century School - Video & Webcasts. Columbia News. University of Oxford. Free Online MIT Course Materials | Audio/Video Courses | MIT Ope. MIT World | Distributed Intelligence. Princeton WebMedia - Lectures.

Multimedia | Harvard Gazette Online. Audio/Video Stories When leaning in is right move Harvard Kennedy School Communications | April 16, 2014 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) senior lecturer Hannah Riley Bowles discussed her research on the role gender plays in negotiations and offered advice for women trying to negotiate higher pay during the Kennedy School’s weekly podcast series, “HKS PolicyCast.” Editor's Pick Audio/Video Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer April 14, 2014 Megan Marshall ’77 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), her richly detailed biography of the 19th-century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate who perished in a shipwreck off New York’s Fire Island. Audio/Video Popular Eve Ensler’s personal monologue By Karla Strobel, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Communications | April 11, 2014 Author and activist Eve Ensler, who opened Radcliffe’s two-day conference “Who Decides?

Editor's Pick Audio/Video Popular Putting Twitter to the test. Science and Engineering at Harvard University | HarvardScience. World Media. UN Open Coursware. OpenCourseWare Consortium. 10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online -- Educatio. See our list of universities that offer free online writing courses. Learn about what courses are available and what topics they cover to find the course that's right for you. Online Writing Courses for Credit Many schools offer free online courses and materials through OpenCourseWare (OCW) projects. While formal admission isn't necessary to access lectures and other materials, these courses don't usually award college credit. Students looking for the same ease of access and the opportunity to apply their study time towards a degree or certificate program might want to consider courses that can lead to an alternative form of credit.

For far less than the cost of enrolling in a traditional class, Education Portal offers hundreds of online courses that allow students to start working their way towards real college credit. The English 104: College Composition course is just one such example. Free Online Non-Credited Writing Courses Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technical Writing. Open Yale Courses.

Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses. 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best C. Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below.

If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General Let the world’s top scientists explain exactly how they do their job when you listen to these lectures. Science and Engineering From materials science to the study of thermodynamics, learn more about the science of engineering here. WTC Lecture – collapse of WTC Buildings: Steven E. Biology and Medicine Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environment Technology Science and Business. 16 Prestigious Schools that Offer Free Online Classes | Online S. Posted by admin on November 5th, 2008 The world of education is changing, big time. Information technology has revolutionized how we find and share information. Only 10 years ago we had to consult libraries and academics for answers to questions that are now directed to Google.

While the business world is forced to change, education is lagging behind. While many schools offer their traditional curriculum online or are entirely Web-based (see our list of online schools for a look at available online colleges and degree programs), many schools and universities offer free courses online in the form of video and audio lectures, mp3 files or PowerPoint slides. Information wants to be free, and these progressive institutions have taken the first step by making their class free for anyone to use online: Need more? For students interested in online schools, there is a huge variety of colleges available offering online degree programs from certificate up to doctorate.

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