Vector64 Home Education OpenCourseWare Page
This page contains links to sites that provide free, online video
lectures for academic courses and other Open CourseWare materials. I have individual links to individual
courses or programs of courses in my other web pages but this page is
for keeping track of sites with courses. I mainly look for certain
courses useful for our programs but sites get updates and additions
which I can't keep track of.
OpenCourseWare sites typically provide a syllabus, description of the
course, problem sets, exams and a schedule. Some sites also provide
audio or video lectures, solutions to problem sets and exams, online
textbooks, lecture notes, and links to supplementary materials. Many
OCW courses require textbooks, specialized commercial software such as
Mathematica and software that can be downloaded for free. There are a
lot of areas that are not well-covered and some areas that have a lot
of coverage.
OpenCourseWare Materials
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- this has a huge amount of course materials in a number of subjects.
The level and usefulness of the materials varies widely from course to
course but this is always a good place to start when looking for
materials.
- Utah State University OpenCourseWare
- Anthropology, Biological and Irrigation Engineering, Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Economics, Education, Electrical and
Computer Engineering, English, Family, Consumer and Human Development,
History, Instructional Technology, Languages, Philosophy and Speech
Communication, Physics, Theatre Arts, and Wildland Resources. Some
courses are fairly self-contained, some have audio, some require
textbooks.
- Notre Dame OpenCourseWare - A
collection of course materials mainly on African-American and Islamic
studies. There are some additional materials on Jews and Christian,
philosophy, and Latino theology. I didn't see any audio or video
resources in a quick look through some of the courses.
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE
- contains course materials on subjects related to public health.
Courses are usually self-contained consisting of onsite documents
and/or audio files.
- Tufts OpenCourseWare -
contains materials from their various schools: Dental Medicine,
Medicine, Nutrition Science and Policy, Fletcher, Veterinary Medicine
and Arts and Sciences. Some courses have partial materials. I didn't
see any audio or video lectures. Some courses require textbooks and
some are self-contained.
Online Audio/Video Courses
- MIT Open Courseware Audio/Video Courses A small collection of video lectures for courses from the site that started the Open Courseware movement in a significant way.
- Open Yale Courses -
these are ready with six or seven courses. They seem to be well done
except for multimedia where they keep the camera on the professor.
- Free Science and Video Lectures Online! from Peteris Krumins - a good site categorized by subject that provides links to audio and video lectures from multiple sites.
- Free Online Textbooks, Lecture Notes, Tutorials, and Videos on Mathematics, a page of links from NYU.
- Berkeley webcast courses,
a treasure trove of online courses. Their courses are in RealPlayer
format for video and mp3 for audio. Most of the courses are not
downloadable.
- UMass Lowell Riverhawk Video Server
contains a few course lectures from Fall 2007: Human Anatomy and
Physiology, Introduction to Engineering, Physiological Chemistry I,
Calculus I Lectures, and Human Nutrition. I do not know if these will
remain up or be taken down in 2008. These video lectures provide
classroom audio and computer-based slides so you're looking at a
computer screen presentation for the visual part of the lectures.
There's also a History of Art I course in normal video in the archive
section. I took a quick look at it and my feeling is that the quality
of the presentation is so-so.
- Harvard University Extension School Computer Science E-1 Understanding Computers and the Internet course
- provides course lectures in audio or video in Flash, MP3 and
QuickTime formats. Also provides slides and transcripts. This is more
of an introduction to computers and using computers course than a
theoretical and practical computer science course.
- Oxford Old English Course Podcasts (audio) - not reviewed.
- Glasgow University Kant - not reviewed.
- Notre Dame Operating Systems Principles (iTunes) - looks like a ton of videos are provided - not reviewed.
- Indiana University has a number of courses in business, communications, english, french, spanish, music, and geology. A more direct link to the videos is at direct links page.
Their courseware appears to be from videotapes and courses aren't
taught in front of a classroom. I like the quality but the first few
that I've seen don't appear at the difficulty level of standard
undergraduate day courses. But my opinion could change as I view these.
- St Petersburg College Video Online contains
video lectures on US History, American Literature, Anthropology, Art,
Astronomy, Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law, Child Development,
Economics, Composition, Western Civilization, French, Spanish,
Business, Geology, Health, Math, Business, Music, Philosophy,
Psychology and a few other subjects. Registration is required to view
the videos and they appear to be geared to Windows Media Player.
- Note that there are individual courses linked to from my other home education pages that are categorized at http://www.vector64.com/HomeEd/. These generally have descriptions on what I've found on the online video courses and are categorized by subject.
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Updated January 21,
2008.
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