[EDUCATING EARTH]

Dedicated to amassing free university-level courses, lecture, debate, and art archives, research papers, homework help, and more! Nearly ALL of the material on here can be downloaded onto your computers or mobile devices using websites like KeepVid and SnipMp3 or found on iTunes U. Please support the open exchange of intellectual, academic, artistic, and other thought-provoking material. A FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL THE WORLD'S PEOPLE VISITORS Free Books & Textbooks · iTunes U · Academic Earth · MitWorld · YaleTube · MITOCW Princeton WebMedia · NYU Free Courses · Columbia Youtube · Columbia iTunes MITVideo · Princeton University: WebMedia Lectures · Tufts OpenCourseware · OpenCulture European Graduate School · Coursea · Peer2Peer University · WolframAlpha University of the People · RCampus · Merlot · GiantCampus · OpenCourseWare Consortium LearnersTV · SchoolTube · Online Edu Database · Forum Network · LectureFox · World Lecture Hall VideoLectures · John's Hopkins OCW · FreeVideoLectures · UniLeaks KhanAcademy · Internet Academy · Internet Archive · Singularity University CosmoLearning · Brightstorm · UC Berkeley Webcasts National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) UCLA YouTube · IFL SCIENCE! · Science Daily · OpenCourseWare Consortium Free Video Lectures · Wikiversity · Zotero · LibGen · UbuWeb ...and many more in our ARCHIVE! rmt_ki101('0',70,'9ozrbiahf8j','007eff'); "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." ~ Einstein

[educatingearth]

200 universities just launched 560 free online courses. Here’s the full list.

If you haven’t heard, universities around the world offering their courses online for free (or at-least partially free). These courses are collectively called as MOOCS or Massive Open Online Courses.

In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping track of these MOOCs the entire time over at Class Central, ever since they rose to prominence.

In the past three month alone, more than 200 universities have announced 560 such free online courses. I’ve compiled this list below and categorized the courses into the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science.

If you have trouble figuring out how to signup for Coursera courses for free, don’t worry — I’ve written an article on how to do that, too.

FOR COMPLETE LIST GO HERE:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/200-universities-just-launched-560-free-online-courses-heres-the-full-list-d9dd13600b04

[educatingearth]

A free education for all the world’s people

I have been blessed with a lot of interests and a nice spattering of talents.  So when I think of the truly difficult situation of what is actually worth doing, I always return to what the Internet hasn't really been used for yet and what it was rumored from its inception that it should ultimately provide: An utterly and entirely free education for all the world's people.

That may sound like an idealistic stretch to the uninitiated but the fact of the matter is universities like MIT, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, The European Graduate School, and dozens of universities from around the world have been regularly uploading entire courses to YouTube for years.  All entirely free of charge.

If that process was taken and applied to a social media platform like Facebook there would be no excuse for illiteracy to exist for anyone on the planet with Internet access.  That's why I started a pet project called [EDUCATING EARTH].  That's the link to the Facebook Group.  There's also a more tightly curated archive I slapped together on Tumblr.

Now there's usually a few arguments to this which are usually: 1) Learning online will never be learning in a physical classroom setting. I'll grant that.  But I'll counter it with: You don't need to learn everything there is to learn strictly in a classroom setting.  That's absurd.  Not everything is surgery.  Another argument is 2) cost and paying teachers.  All I can think to respond to that is:  How much in debt does the average student in the United States end up in after four years of college?  What if that money was used to pay for a robust online educational platform?  How many MORE people the world over could learn from that four-year tuition alone?

There is a whole world I wont go into here but there are plenty of articles and studies that I could cite about universities having money management problems, embellishment issues, and at the worst amounting to scams.  

Here's the major philosophical points I have for such a project. Illiteracy has been a historic tool used to oppress.  As of today, nearly 500 million women on this planet are denied the right to learn how to read and write.  Women make up two-thirds of total population of the world's illiterate adults. It's a global crime perpetuated against women, pure and simple.  

Here's another really, really simple one:  If the world has so many problems on both local and a global scale, doesn't it make sense to have more problem solvers available to collaborate and tackle them?  If you have to fly in an engineer to fix your water filtration system, and you live close to poverty, that's not a good situation to be in.  Look at all these young kids devising ingenious ways to clean the ocean or detect cancer; don't you want many, many orders of magnitude more of that going on in the world?

Here's one last point:  In terms of moral, social, and philosophical uprightness isn't it striking to have the technology to provide a free education to all the world's people (the internet and cheap computers) and not do it?  Isn't that elitist and wrong to have the ability to teach the world and still deny millions, possibly billions, of people that opportunity due to (1) location and (2) finances?  Is that immoral?  Unjust?

My guess is that we have yet to realize how much better off we would all be-- that meaning the deep social good that it would be--to have all our neighbors as educated as they'd like to be without these obsolete roadblocks of location and finance.  We don't yet see that having educated neighbors is as valuable to the good of the community as having clean running water.  Some of us might suspect it, but I think we've yet to fully embrace how obviously beneficial that would be to the whole planet to give everyone the opportunity to learn whatever they want, as much as they want, whenever they want.

In terms of a worthwhile project this has always seemed obviously worthwhile; a free education for all the world's people.  Some kind of cross between YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, and Wikipedia with an entirely educational bent.  The whole thing would be bottom-up governed by the users.  Research would be freely available to all.  Problems and projects could quickly be outsourced and collaborated on by cross-pollinating groups. A powerful algorithm would translate as much material as possible.  The whole vision of the very system of education would from being, as Brian Whitworth aptly described, "Knowledge gate-keeping" to "Knowledge gardening."

Let's not be niave; not having something like this already in place is why Donald Trump, climate-change deniers, and all the whole kingdom of low-hanging fruits in the world, that you are rightly embarrassed to share breathing room with, continue to exist.  In a world after the establishment of free global education poverty, oppression, and painful stupidity on a global scale (things most people tend to agree is a problem) would naturally become harder and harder to come by.

In a way, a project such as this was always the destiny of philosophy, social justice, and all the good things we think of when we bring up the word "civilization".

If anyone wants to rap further on this angle I've been at this game on-and-off since 2010.  I can't believe it hasn't been seriously implemented by some billionaire or team of tech-heads with more resources and talent than myself.  I don't know why something like Educating Earth is not yet on the top-10 most of Alexa already.  That's got to change.  There is no need for this pervasive disservice to humanity and the planet to endure.  We are already beyond it.  And yet tragically not yet.

Like Einstein pointed out, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

[educatingearth]

The Rise of Pirate Libraries

Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world's knowledge and give it away for free. By Sarah Laskow APRIL 21, 2016

All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials. But no actual papers trade hands: everything is digital, and the internet-accessible content is not banned for shocking content so much as that modern crime, copyright infringement.

But for the people who run the world’s pirate libraries, their goals are no less ambitious for their work’s illicit nature.

“It’s the creation of a universal library of the best stuff,” says Joe Karaganis, who studies media piracy at Columbia University’s policy think tank, American Assembly. “That will not include the latest Danielle Steel novel.” It does, however, include hundreds of thousands of books and millions of journal articles that otherwise are found only through expensive academic journals. Scanned or downloaded from journal sites, they are available through pirate libraries for free.

The creators of these repositories are a small group who try to keep a low profile, since distributing copyrighted material in this way is illegal. Many of them are academics. The largest pirate libraries have come from Russia’s cultural orbit, but the documents they collect are used by people around the world, in countries both wealthy and poor. Pirate libraries have become so popular that in 2015, Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers in America, went to court to try to shut down two of the most popular, Sci-Hub and Library Genesis.

These libraries, Elsevier alleged, cost the company millions of dollars in lost profits. 

But the people who run and support pirate libraries argue that they’re filling a market gap, providing access to information to researchers around the world who wouldn’t have the resources to obtain these materials any other way.The lawsuits, wrote one group of pirate library supporters, “come as a big blow” to researchers whose only source of scholarly material is in these sites. “The social media, mailing lists and IRC channels have been filled with their distress messages, desperately seeking articles and publications,” the brief states.In other words, they believe there are researchers who are never going to be able to pay the steep price of academic articles; either they use pirate libraries, which give them efficient access to information, or they don’t get to read those books and journals at all.

READ FULL HERE

[educatingearth]

Stephen Fry Launches Pindex, a “Pinterest for Education”

Who can now deny that, in the internet, we have the greatest educational tool ever conceived by mankind? Surely no Open Culture reader would deny it, anyway, nor could they fail to take an interest in a new startup aiming to increase the internet’s educational power further still: Pindex, which calls itself “a Pinterest for education.” No other company has yet staked that territory out, and certainly no other company has done it with the support of Stephen Fry.

The Telegraph‘s Cara McCoogan describes Pindex, which launched just last month (visit it here), as “a self-funded online platform that creates and curates educational videos and infographics for teachers and students,” founded and run by a four-person team. Fry’s role in the quartet includes offering “creative direction,” but he’s also put his unmistakable voice to one of Pindex’s first videos, an “explainer about the Large Hadron Collider, dark matter and extra dimensions. Other videos will focus on science and technology, including ones on the Hyperloop, colonising Mars, and robots and drones. Mr Fry is expected to do the voiceovers for several of these.”

Have a look around the site and you’ll also find a collection of material on gravitational waves, some creative writing resources, an infographic guide to nutrition, details on a variety of fun science experiments, and much more besides. There’s even a guide to Pindex itself, which explains how to use the site and what you can get out of it going forward, whether as a teacher, a student, or just someone into learning as much as possible — a pursuit that, even in what Fry calls “a time when it is easy to lose faith in an online world that seems to centre around trolling, bullying, hating, trivializing and belittling,” gets more rewarding by the day.

via The Telegraph

[educatingearth]

NEW WEBSITE AIMS TO TRANSFORM THE PHILOSOPHY CANON BY HIGHLIGHTING WOMEN

Project Vox is a new website that “seeks to recover the lost voices of women who have been ignored in standard narratives of the history of modern philosophy.”

Led by a Duke philosophy professor with a team of staff and students, along with colleagues at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, the site aims to intervene at a few different points in the “vicious cycle” that keeps early women philosophers’ work marginalized within the canon.

From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France, many women played significant roles in the development of modern philosophy, but their contributions have often gone unnoticed. The website has three primary goals. First, it seeks to provide students at all levels with the materials they need to begin exploring the rich philosophical ideas of Cavendish, Conway, Du Châtelet and Masham. Second, it aims to provide teachers with the material they need to incorporate these four figures into their courses. Third and finally, it aims to help transform our current conception of the canon.

This is an impressive and much-needed project that seems like it could make some real progress intransforming the dude-dominated discipline. It also has the happy side effect of making loads of information—biographies, out-of-print texts, sample syllabi—easily accessible to those of us who aren’t in academia. So if you want to get your self-taught Ph.D. in early modern women’s philosophy, get on it.

http://feministing.com/2015/03/10/new-website-aims-to-transform-the-philosophy-canon-by-highlighting-women/

[educatingearth]

The New York Public Library just uploaded nearly 200,000 images you can use for free

The New York Public Library just released a treasure trove of digitized public domain images, featuring epic poetry from the 11th century to photographs of used car lots in Columbus, Ohio from the 1930s. Over 180,000 manuscripts, maps, photographs, sheet music, lithographs, postcards, and other images were released online Wednesday in incredibly high resolution, and are available to download using the library's user-friendly visualization tool. It's a nostalgist's dream come true.

"No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse!" writes Shana Kimball, manager of the library's public programs and outreach.

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FREE BOOKS: 100 LEGAL SITES TO DOWNLOAD LITERATURE

Looking for the next great book to sink your teeth into? Look no further. Below are over 100 links to websites that provide free e-books on a huge variety of topics.

Keep reading

[educatingearth]

48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures Free Online: The Power of Myth & Storytelling

You may not be interested in politics, they say, but politics is interested in you. The same, if you believe famed mythologist Joseph Campbell, goes for myth: far from explaining only the origin of the world as believed by extinct societies, it can explain the power of stories we enjoy today — up to and including Star Wars. The man behind PBS’ well-known series The Power of Myth left behind many words in many formats telling us precisely why, and now you can hear a fair few of them — 48 hours worth — for free on this Spotify playlist. (If you don’t have Spotify’s software already, you can download it free here.)

“From the Star Wars trilogy to the Grateful Dead,” says the Joseph Campbell Foundation, “Joseph Campbell has had a profound impact on our culture, our beliefs, and the way we view ourselves and the world.” This collection, The Lectures of Joseph Campbell, which comes from early in his career, offers “a glimpse into one of the great minds of our time, drawing together his most wide-ranging and insightful talks” in the role of both “a scholar and a master storyteller.” So not only can Campbell enrich our understanding of all the stories we love, he can spin his lifetime of mythological research into teachings that, in the telling, weave into a pretty gripping yarn in and of themselves.

Source: Open Culture

[educatingearth]

Zotero

A personal research assistant.                

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

Store anything!

Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.

[anthrocentric]

If you don’t have money, you can read and download books for free.

[educatingearth]

[thescienceofreality]

Learn Almost Anything For Free on Khan Academy!

Yet another suggested FREE resource for self-education and mind expansion in almost any field you could possibly want to learn about! Below is a description from the Khan Academy about it’s mission:

"With over 3,300 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.

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We’re a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site’s resources are available to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy’s materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.”

Khan Academy offers Talks and Interviews,  Resources for Teachers and/or Administrators, andall sorts of areas of expertise within the fields listed below:

  Mathematics:

Arithmetic and Pre-Algebra

Algebra

Geometry

Trigonometry

Probability

Statistics

Precalculus

Calculus

Differential Equations

Linear Algebra

Brain Teasers

Vi Hart

Sciences:

Biology

Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Healthcare and Medicine

Physics

Cosmology and Astronomy

Computer Science

Brit Cruise

MIT+K12

Finance & Economics:

Core Finance

Valuation and Investing

Venture Capital and Capital Markets

Credit Crisis

Paulson Bailout

Geithner Plan

Current Economics

Banking and Money

Currency

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Humanities:

History

American Civics

Art History

Test Prep:

SAT Math

GMAT

CAHSEE

California Standards Test

Competition Math

IIT JEE

Singapore Math

Enjoy these wonderful resources, and have fun exploring and expanding!

[thescienceofreality]

Academic Earth and Open Culture offer dozens of courses, text books, ebooks, and ways to educate yourself right at your fingertips!

[Edited: Make sure to read the full terms and agreements, and like most online course sites, do not expect this to act as a replacement for a real-life class unless any specific course you sign up for states it offers transferrable credits. Make sure you know most online-courses will not be recognized as a replacement for any part of any curriculum by credited educational institutions.]

Through Academic Earth, you can take courses in all of the fields below:

Business

Computer Science

Mathematics

Engineering

Science

Humanities

Social Sciences

Art & Design

Test Preparation

Academic Earth offers a variety of Universities, which you can click through below to see which University offers for specific online courses. 

Berklee College of Music

Caltech

Cambridge

Carnegie Mellon

Case Western Reserve

Columbia

Cornell

Dalarna University

Dartmouth College

Examkrackers

George Washington University

Gresham College

Harvard

IIT Delhi

IIT Kanpur

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Madras

Lund University

Michigan

Mises Institute

MIT

New School

Notre Dame

NYU

Oxford

Princeton

Rice

Stanford

The City University of New York

UC Berkeley

UC Irvine

UCLA

University of California San Francisco

University of Chicago

University of Houston

University of London

University of New South Wales

University of North Carolina

University of Western Sydney

Wesleyan University

Yale

Open Culture offers dozens of FREE  [500] online courses, [450] audio books, [500] movies, [40] language lessons, [325] ebooks, and [150] text books for your personal mind expansion!

Online courses from Open Culture include the listed topics below:

Archaeology

Architecture

Art & Art History

Classics & Classical World

Economics

Film

Geography

History

Journalism

Languages

Law

Linguistics

Literature

Music

Philosophy

Political Science, International Relations, and Law

Religion

Sociology

Urban Studies

Aeronautics

Anthropology

Astronomy

Biology/Medicine

Chemistry

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

Engineering [Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical]

Environment & Natural Resources

Mathematics

Physics

Psychology & Cognitive Sciences

Public Health

Business

Enjoy the over-abundance of free educational resources, and never stop exploring and expanding! And if anyone knows of any other great self-education resources, let me know!

[riseofgenius]

Download 78 Free Online History Courses: From Ancient Greece to the Modern World:

A Tale of Three Super Powers – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Huges, Missouri State

African American History: Emancipation to the Present – Free Online Video - Course Materials - Jonathan Holloway, Yale

African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Clay Carson, Stanford

American Economic History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Martha Olney, UC Berkeley

American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst

Ancient Greece: City and Society - Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia

Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia

Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale

Ancient Israel - Free Online Video & Resources - Free Online Video - Daniel Fleming, NYU

Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Free Online Video & Course Info - John Dower, MIT

Australian Aboriginal History – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Broome, La Trobe University

Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – Free iTunes Audio - Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz

China: Traditions and Transformations – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard

Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio - Jack Rakove, Stanford

Constitutional Convention – Free iTunes Video – University of Oklahoma – Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje

Early Imperial Russia – Free iTunes Audio – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University, Australia

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Keith E. Wrightson, Yale

Early Modern Germany - Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - Free iTunes Video- Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video - Course Materials - Frank Snowden, Yale

Ethnic Relations in the US – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State

Europe in the 19th Century – Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 –Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

European Civilization, 1648-1945 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials  - John Merriman, Yale

European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – Free iTunes Audio - Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley

European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present -Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio - Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley

European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison

European Cultural History, 1660-1870 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison

European Cultural History, 1880-1920 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison

France Since 1871 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - John Merriman, Yale

Freedom 101: Introduction to American Constitutional History– Free iTunes iOS course – U. of Oklahoma

Hannibal – Free iTunes Audio - Patrick Hunt, Stanford

Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Free Online Audio - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin

Historical Jesus – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University

History of Anthropological Thought – Free iTunes Audio -Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley

History and Practice of Human Rights – Free Online Video – Free Video 2 - Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Laqueur

History of Information – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video –Free Online Video 2 - Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley

History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan - Free iTunes Audio - John Wallace, UC Berkeley

History of the International System – Free iTunes Audio - James Sheehan, Stanford University

History of MIT – Web - David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT

History of the Modern Middle East – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

History of New York City: A Social History (Syllabus)- Free Online Video & Course Info - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Daniel Walkowitz, NYU

History of the United States Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio -Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

History of the United States Since 1877 – Free iTunes Video - Dominic Capeci, Missouri State

History of the World to 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

History of the World Since 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University

Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley

International and Global History Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio -Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video- Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale

Introduction to American Studies – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley

Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley

Making History – Free iTunes Audio – Ingrid Sykes, La Trobe University – Australia

Medicine and Public Health in American History – Free Online Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame

Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - Free Online Video – Lynn Hunt, UCLA

Modern Jewish History – Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

Rethinking Theory in Black Studies - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois

Science, Magic and Religion - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video– Courtenay Raia, UCLA

The American Founders and Their World – Free iTunes Audio -Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford

The American Revolution – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video- Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials- Joanne B. Freeman, Yale

The Ancient Mediterranean World – Free Online Audio - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley

The Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - David Blight, Yale

The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video & Audio - Course Materials - Paul H. Freedman, Yale

The History of Public Health – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio & Course Materials - Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins

The Kennedy Half Century – Free iTunes Video – Larry Sabato, University of Virginia

The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – Free iTunesU iOS Course – Philip Zelikow, UVA

The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video – Free Online Video - James Vernon, UC Berkeley

The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – Free iTunes Audio –Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley

The Roman World - Free iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University

The Story of Freedom in America - Free iTunes Video – Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma

The United States and the World Since 1945 - Free iTunes Audio –Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley

U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio –Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley

US History: from Civil War to Present - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley

The Western Tradition (Video) - Free Online Video - Course Outline– Eugen Weber, UCLA

War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley

World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II –Free Course in Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

[kamillamacaulay]

[ratak-monodosico]

The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X)

DOWNLOAD

Art of the Islamic World

The Art of Africa

The Art of Ancient Egypt

The Art of the Ancient Near East

The Art of Renaissance Europe

The Art of South and Southeast Asia

The Arts of Korea

Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais

Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical

Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning

A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath

Medieval Art

Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roman Art

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[trebleisnotmyforte]

Bless this man

[nowyoukno]

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pipl.com - a search engine for finding people.

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wolframalpha.com - a computational knowledge

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unlistmy.info - find out which websites store

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thistothat.com - find out the best way to glue

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[educatingearth]

The wealth of knowledge once reserved for the Ivy League Elite is now being released for free on the internet, power to the people! In the beginning information traveled slow, knowledge was confined to a few buildings around the globe that are guarded by high entry fees and standardized test scores. The number of individuals who could gain access to information was kept to a short acceptance list while many were given an Access Denied. But then like a swift kick in the face, the internet came along and changed everything! From media to commerce, the education system is no exception to the tornado that is the world wide web. Where once higher education was reserved for those who could pay the toll, the internet, in all its divinity has endowed us with a free higher education experience for all those who have a connection to the great and powerful Wi-Fi. Here are just a few amazing online institutes that offer free college courses for the good people of planet earth, enjoy and never stop learning... [Click linked article for gateway]