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Friday, June 08, 2007

Is Education Free?

We think free education is not possible . But all top universities in
the world including our IISc and IIT's  are offering free education to
everyone through video lectures, audio lectures and animations (
interactive).
But a few of us know about them. This is an effort to create awareness
about the Best free educational resources available in the world.
     Here are ....
1.         Free video lectures and animations on all subjects
<http://freevideolectures.com/>   Huge Collection. Text materials and
videos on all Engineering and Medical Sciences.
2.         Joint venture by IIT's and IISc <http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/>
3.         MIT Open Course <http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html>
Text materials, video lectures on all subjects
4.        MIT world <http://mitworld.mit.edu/>
Video lectures
5.         MIT lecture Browser <http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/>
browse video lectures on all topics
6.         World Lecture Hall
<http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm>
you can find any course here, where ever it is.
7.         WGBH Forum Network <http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/>
videos on all subjects
8.         Vega Science Trust <http://www.vega.org.uk/>
Physics Special
9.        Micro Biology Video Library
<http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/videoindex.html>
Biology
10.         Animations <http://www.maxanim.com/index.htm>
Genetics, Biochemistry, Immunology, Physiology etc...
11.         National Institutes of Health
<http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp>             Medicine Special
12. The digital library of india---all significant work in any language of mankind (from old religious scriptures in sanskrit on palm leaves to PhD thesis everything) in  in digitized format ...
http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
This is the dream project of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam , The President of India
Hosted by: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in co-operation with
CMU, IIIT, NSF, ERNET and MCIT  for the Govt. of India and 21 participating centers.

        Business, Management and Leadership
1.         HBR Idea Cast Archive <http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/>
2.         Interviews with Great Entrepreneurs
<http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/>
<:AtomicElement id=ms__id2634> <http://hbswk.hbs.edu/>
3.         HARVARD Working Knowledge <http://hbswk.hbs.edu/>
<:AtomicElement id=ms__id2635> <http://mitworld.mit.edu/>

4.         Stanford University Videos
<http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/av_lectures.html> <:AtomicElement
id=ms__id2636> <http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/multimedia/>
5.         Knowledge @ Wharton Business
<http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm>
6.         Huge Collection of many other including the above all
<http://freevideolectures.com/business>  .

        Other Useful Search Engines
1.        Google Book Search <http://books.google.com/>
Search the all books.
2.         Google Code Search <http://www.google.com/codesearch>
searches public source code
3.        Google Scholar Search <http://scholar.google.com/>
searches all the Scholar papers.
4.         Educational Special Search Engine
<http://freevideolectures.com/search.com>    searches all sites for
e-books, study materials, video lectures, animations, including Google
videos, Yahoo videos, you tube, Google code search, Scholar, Book
search.

(acknldg: list received by e-mail from un-known source  with some modification by me, thanks to him who made the original list)