Online Courses

Digital Storytelling - ds106

A free open online course for digital storytelling offered by the University of Mary Washington.

Distance Learning Resource Network

The Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN), located at WestEd (non-profit education research agency), is the dissemination project for the U.S. Department of Education Star Schools Program.

Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier

Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier Ethics and Law on the Internet is a joint subject between MIT and Harvard, with half of the class drawn from each school. The class considers the interaction between policy and technology, or more specifically, between law and various architectures of cyberspace. It covers topics including free speech, privacy, copyright, and encryption. With each, a team of students (half from each school) will explore policy and technology issues raised by that topic.

Gamification Course
Unniversity of Pennsylvania Professor Kevin Werbach delivers this Massive Open Online Course about the potential of gamification in a range of organizational contexts. This serves as a popular demonstration of a MOOC and an online course structure.
Human Anatomy Online
"Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links."

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Hosted on one of the most popular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms, Udacity, this course is often heralded as the one that started the MOOC movement. Director of Research at Google, Peter Norvig and Standford Professor Sebastian Thrun attracted over 100,000 global students to this course, propelling a new technology infused educational movement.

MIT Open Courseware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contains a first sampling of course materials from MIT's Faculty. The intent is for educators around the world to draw upon the materials for their own curricula, and they encourage all learners to use the materials for self-study.

Online Colleges

A resource guide for accredited online colleges.

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