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Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections Written by: Thomas Broderick Universities, colleges, and private organizations offer free online college courses to help students acquire new knowledge and skills. These courses cover a variety of traditional academic topics and other subjects that can lead to career advancement and personal enrichment. Most online courses provide an introduction to a topic, although there are some intermediary and advanced courses. Some free college courses use the term massive online open course (MOOC). Benefits of Open Courses Free online college courses allow students to learn from home, a significant advantage for learners who prefer to eliminate a commute. In a free college course, learners can explore new academic topics without incurring high tuition costs. Open courses can also expose students to new hobbies. Should You Take Open Courses? Free online college courses appeal to individuals who want to learn without going into debt or making sacrifices to their personal and professional lives.

Le muscle Psoas un muscle pas comme les autres Imprimez l'article Je pense que peu de personnes connaissent ce muscle mais c’est celui qui en gros vous donne les douleurs lombaires et qui vous force petit à petit par manque d’étirements et de sport à vous vouter et à marcher comme un vieux, désolé mais on en voit beaucoup qui piétine dans la rue. C’est ce que j’ai eu vendredi dernier, un mal au dos intense puis le muscle s’est rétracté de façon a me scotcher sur place!! Il faut le prendre au sérieux car il crée les mêmes symptômes qu’une crise de colique néphrétique ou une gastro-entérite. De plus ce muscle pour les femmes passe devant les ovaires et du coup on peut aussi croire à une torsion ovarienne et oui cela existe. Donc quand vous avez mal, vérifier si c’est bien ce muscle là qui vous fait mal, il y a un geste simple à faire, je vous donne le lien vous verrez et vous pourrez agir, avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. Le muscle psoas est fondamental à connaître puisqu’il est responsable d’environ 50% des lombalgies.

Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century Open Educational Resources Project (Collections Strand) - OeRBITAL UK Centre for Bioscience OER project - Phase 2 The UK Centre for Bioscience sucessfully bid for funding to undertake a 'Collections Strand' Open Educational Resources project over 2010-2011 following its success with the phase 1 (OER pilot projects) Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences project. Working with ten discipline consultants from across the country we have produced a wiki for the benefit of the bioscience community to explore the potential of OERs across a range of disciplines. The intention is to guide staff new to Open Educational Resources in the Biosciences towards those which we believe are valuable examples, and the routes to find them. The OeRBITAL project wiki is available at: The story behind finding, evaluating and enhancing OERs is also captured here, so that we might share and develop a realistic approach to assist other OER users (and developers) with JISC and HEFCE funded projects.

California Learning Resource Network This textbook and Internet resource provides introductory information, concept or skill development in Mathematics for grade 9, 10, 11, and 12 students who are at grade level in a single student situation. Brief Description CK-12’s Geometry delivers a full course of study in the mathematics of shape and space for the high school student, relating the ancient logic and modern applications of measurement and description to its essential elements, processes of reasoning and proof, parallel and perpendicular lines, congruence and similarity, relationships within triangles and among quadrilaterals, trigonometry of right triangles, circles, perimeter, area, surface area, volume, and geometric transformations. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. A correlation document is available. Email to a friend. Add to your Reminders.

100 Best Open Science Courses on the Web It’s never too late or too early to start expanding your knowledge of science. With the wealth of free courses available on the web, that goal is easier than ever to achieve and can often be done without even leaving the house. The courses listed here will help you get started, offering resources on a wide variety of scientific fields from those that delve into the laws of the universe to those that explain the chemical reactions taking place in your own kitchen. Physics Use these courses to learn about both the basics and some of the more advanced topics in physics. Fundamentals of Physics: In this course Professor Ramamurti Shankar will teach you about the basic principles of physics. Chemistry Give these chemistry courses a try to get a handle on many aspects of the subject. Freshman Organic Chemistry: Use the lessons in this course to teach yourself about the theories and principles of organic chemistry. Biology Study cells, systems, plants and more through these free courses. Astronomy

The Grey Labyrinth: The Labyrinthians' Exchange by Kevin J. Lin Two exceptionally quick-witted Labyrinthians were invited to a party in their honor. Currently Mathematica is one hundred by hundred houses in area. Our two famed puzzlers, let's call them Samantha and Paul, were both given the address weeks in advance. Paul: I'm afraid I've forgotten the address. Paul and Samantha were being perfectly truthful, and no other information was exchanged apart from this dialog. What was the party's address? Finding Moonshine: Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums I am co-hosting a mad comedy maths game show with Dara O'Briain on the TV channel Dave. I was away filming for another series last week when an episode was aired that required some calculus. I got lots of tweets and emails about the problem so thought it worth just explaining how you solve it. Problem: A lifeguard at the beach spots a swimmer in distress in the water. Lets suppose the lifeguard's running speed is v1 and swimming speed is v2. We note that v1=2*v2. There is also a cute physical way you could use to solve this puzzle. When you set the differential to 0 and expand it then they will get a quartic polynomial. At school you learn about a formula for solving quadratic equations. Glorious...if you like that kind of thing. Why do we need to do quadratic equations at school? Solving quadratic equations is something we do every time you catch a ball. This skill is very important in warfare too. We have been solving quadratic equations for millennia. Work has been done by Timothy J.

Learn UNIX in 10 minutes Learn UNIX in 10 minutes. Version 1.3 Preface This is something that I had given out to students (CAD user training) in years past. The purpose was to have on one page the basics commands for getting started using the UNIX shell (so that they didn't call me asking what to do the first time someone gave them a tape). This document is copyrighted but freely redistributable under the terms of the GFDL . Have an idea for this page? Send me patches, comments, corrections, about whatever you think is wrong or should be included. Directories:Moving around the file system:Listing directory contents:Changing file permissions and attributesMoving, renaming, and copying files:Viewing and editing files:Shells Environment variablesInteractive HistoryFilename CompletionBash is the way cool shell.

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