DiscoTech 2012 at MOCAD presentation on April 15, 2012

1. Internet University
DiscoTech 2012
Receive an
education from the
Internet

2. Learning almost Anything
• http://www.instructables.com/
With Instructables you
can share what you
make with the world —
and tap into an ever-
growing community of
creative experts.

3. Learn to make Projects
http://makezine.com/

4. Back to School Learning
http://www.youtube.com/education
Get more into learning
YouTube EDU brings learners and
educators together in a global
video classroom. On YouTube
EDU, you have access to a broad
set of educational videos that
range from academic lectures to
inspirational speeches and
everything in between.

5. Back to School Learning
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Watch. Practice.
Learn almost anything for free.
With over 3,100 videos on
everything from arithmetic to
physics, finance, and history and
hundreds of skills to practice, we're
on a mission to help you learn what
you want, when you want, at your
own pace.

6. Back to School Learning
www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation
TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of
great educators around the world. We do this by pairing
extraordinary educators with talented animators to
produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.

7. Back to School Learning
• http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The Open
University
• iTunesU (Access through iTunes Software)
Try over 600 free online courses from The
Open University.
Available from introductory to advanced
level, each takes between 1 and 50 hours to
study.
Complete activities to assess your progress and
compare your thoughts with sample answers.
Sign up for free to track your progress, connect
with other learners in our discussion forums
and find the tools to help you learn.

8. Back to School learning
www.freeworldu.org
.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit online school offering our
students a complete preschool through 12th grade curriculum.
Our proven program is supported by research that shows that
children can learn faster and enjoy learning more using our
methods. The curriculum is taught via flashcards that break
subjects down into small, easily assimilated fact units. The
flashcards are presented through a program that remembers
what each student has learned and what he or she needs to
keep working on

9. College Education
https://www.coursera.org/
Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free.
We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the
top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to
take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are
educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our
technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds
of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class
education that has so far been available only to a select few. We
want to empower people with education that will improve their
lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

10. Career Development
Lynda.com
The lynda.com Online Training Library® - Learn
at your own pace Codecademy
– Stay current and keep skills sharp Learn to code
– Learn innovative and productive techniques
– Access over 1,310 online courses, 24/7 Codecademy is the easiest way
– Video instruction by recognized industry to learn how to code. It's
experts interactive, fun, and you can do
– Gain confidence and marketability it with your friends.
– Stop, rewind, replay movies as you need to
NOT Free, pay as you use site. Major Universities Free
Education
w3schools.com • Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (mit.edu)
At w3schools.com you will learn how to make • Carnegie Mellon University
a website. We offer free tutorials in all web (cmu.edu)
development technologies. • Tufts University (tufts.edu)
Select a tutorial from the menu to the left. • University of California, Berkeley
(berkeley.edu)

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