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Online education is an area available to those unable to access full-time education. Technology has now allowed the use of CDs, DVD, email, web-based presentations and more. It is possible to carry virtually a full load or a single unit. You can choose where and when you study/complete work, even overseas. It can be done in conjunction with full-time work, managing a family or running a business. It can be done for professional or personal reasons.
In previous years, this form of study was often called external studies or distance education, with the latter term still being used by some bodies and levels.
Online education is provided by most universities, some colleges and many school systems. Numerous universities are now providing Open Courseware online, for free use by anyone who is interested, though they do not lead to qualifications.
Be aware online education has positive and negative aspects. You must know if you are suited to this method of learning. Charles Sturt University has information regarding the process.
Other sites that may be useful include Distance Learning 101 and Distance Learning Web Resources. While the last two are US based, several sections apply worldwide and are worth reading before starting any online/distance education course.
This page looks at Open Courseware, specialised online learning areas, video and other tutorials.
The First Page looks at online education programs in Australia. This covers all levels from schools [Distance Education, School of the Air] to universities, as well as vocational areas.
The Third Page looks at international universities that offer online education and courses and other general information.
If you are aware of worthwhile information not included, suggestions or additions are welcome.
Specialist Areas
Information Technology
- I.T. Training Online
Free training in areas of computing including basic programming. Resources, tools and courses listed. - Learn IT
Tutorials from beginners to expanding knowledge. Select Computers & Internet on the menu. - Learn the Net
Articles on the internet from going online to building web pages. - NETg [Skill Soft]
Provides IT online training. Now part of Skill Soft. - Search Engine College
‘Search Engine College is an online training institution offering supervised courses and self-study courses in Search Engine Optimisation, Pay Per Click Advertising and other Search Engine Marketing subjects’. Courses are Fee-based.
Languages
- Language Courses
A variety of languages. Not all are Free, so check carefully. - Language Study Online
Extensive range of languages. - Parlo
Language courses [mainly European] and other cultures.
Investment & Business
- Australian Business Planning
Advice and guidance in the development of businesses. - Business Plan Centre
Business planning online.
Media & Music
- Berklee Shares
‘Free music lessons you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians.’ Browse by Topic or Instrument. - Mucony
‘Private music lessons for view, taught by the world’s finest classical and jazz artists. All the major instruments are represented, along with lessons in voice, history and theory.’ While Free to Join, lessons are Fee-based.
There appear to be some problems with this site. It will be maintained only until the next update unless these are resolved. You can now access the Mucony.com Official Blog here though. -
Music and Theatre Arts [MIT OpenCourseWare]
Extensive listing of undergraduate and graduate courses, some with lecture notes, multimedia, projects and examples, assignments and solutions. - Online Conservatory
Canadian piano teacher. If interested, you need a MIDI compatible keyboard. To continue, there is a Fee. - Workstar
Combines input from universities, companies and others to provide online learning in multimedia areas.
sports Management
- Online Learning for Sports Management
‘This website is dedicated to students and teachers who need information about the field of Sport and Recreation Management. The site contains more than 500 freely available web pages and some resources which are downloadable for a small fee’.
Open Courseware
A movement to make courseware freely available for people to access, anywhere in the world. Multiple methods of doing so. Individual sites and portals.
- 100 Incredible Lectures from the
World’s Top Scientists
‘Thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world’. Annotated links listed in science areas. - 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos
‘This list of open courseware collections may be just what you need. Each resource listed contains a collection or collections of educational materials. You’ll find digital archives, a variety of courses, Podcasts, videos and sometimes a mix of everything you can imagine so you can learn any given subject in depth. ’ -
400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities [Open Culture]
‘This collection includes over 250 Free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player’. - 60+ Open Courseware
Collections
To Help You Be a Better Teacher. ‘With open courseware, you can learn about a wide range of topics, from classroom behaviour to using the latest technologies at your own pace. While it’s no substitute for real classroom education, it can provide an invaluable supplement and guide to your educational pursuits and classroom management.’ - Connexion®
‘Environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone’. All available material is Free. - Dumps Questions.com
‘You can download all the latest dumps Free of cost for certification exams.’ - Free Computer Science Classes Online
‘Stanford Engineering professors are setting out to add a new level of interactivity to online education by offering three of the university’s most popular computer science classes for Free’. Access Machine Learning, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Databases via these links. - Free Education
Extensive listing [mostly American]. Links to webcasts, RSS Feeds, courseware. Multiple options for finding these. - Getting Started With Your Online Education
‘Strives to answer all the questions you may have regarding online school requirements, which programs fit your academic and lifestyle needs, and which online schools are truly the best. Through these articles, we hope to give you a better understanding of what to expect and how to succeed at any online school’. US based. -
globalEDGE
‘Free interactive educational tools for use in the classroom or in executive training. Developed by the Michigan State University Centre for International Business and Education and Research’. -
Harvard University [YouTube]
Access material through the main Harvard Channel or through one of the faculty area channels listed in the lower half of the page. - iBerry - Open Courseware
Open Courseware Directory and Higher Education Resources, Academic sites and Prime Sites, Find a vast range of open courseware from quality universities and other academic institutions from all around the world.
Well presented ! - iBerry OCW Finder
Search via Open Courseware Sites, subject, Open Educational Resources, using the subject area grid [probably the best], even Learner Support. - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Opencourseware
‘Provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and their potential solutions’. - Learn-gasm
‘These Free Open Courseware Classes can help any web worker get a step up on the task with courses including web design skills, media arts, photography and video, writing and communication, technology.’ - METU OpenCourseWare
‘Free And Open Educational Resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.’ - MIT Lecture Browser
‘More than 200 MIT lectures are currently available on the site. So far, most of the users are international students who access the lectures through MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, which makes curriculum materials for most MIT courses available to anyone with Internet access’. - MITOpenCourseWare
‘MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. There is no registration or enrolment process because OCW is not a credit-bearing or degree-granting initiative.’ Aeuronautics to Writing. 1900 at time of inclusion. Also has Video lectures. - Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
‘Try the list of departments on the left of this page, or go to the full list of courses. We’ve also provided answers to several questions about Notre Dame OpenCourseWare in our Frequently Asked Questions’. - OpenCourseWare Consortium
‘An OpenCourseWare is a Free And Open Digital Publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organisations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ You could also try their Course Finder. - Open Courseware - Online College Classes
‘Many academic institutions have set up their own projects to make learning available to all, with MIT’s OpenCourseWare at the vanguard. Here are some of the best Free courses available on the web from a variety of schools around the world’. This is one section of a larger site which also covers Online Classes, Videos, Podcasts, Textbooks & eBooks and more. - Open Yale Courses
‘Provides Free and Open Access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials.’ Additional material can be found at Yale Courses [YouTube] and at Yale Lectures [YouTube]. - ParisTech Graduate School Open Course Ware
‘The whole website content is structured and can be searched according to the leftmost column containing the ten main fields of scientific expertise of ParisTech. The RSS stream below shows the most recent added materials [Books, thesis, courses, etc.]’. In English. - SmartSchoolFinder
‘While you won’t be earning a degree, you will be learning quite a bit from the finest schools in the World, and you may find a new subject that catches your eye !’ Mainly American, but some from other countries. - TED
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Select by area or a range of other options. - The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
‘Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and Free For All To Use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.’ - The Ultimate Guide to Using Open Courseware
70+ Apps, Search Engines and Resources for Free Learning. Search Engines & Directories, Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, Videos, eBooks, Educational TV, plus Resources, Articles, Guides. - Top 100 Open Courseware Projects
‘Open courseware sources listed are Freely Available For Anyone To Use, whether you’re a student, an instructor, or a self-learner. Categorised by subject and listed alphabetically within that subject.’ Agriculture to Social Sciences. - Tufts OpenCourseWare
‘Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts’ course offerings demonstrate the University’s strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities’. -
Udemy
‘Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. Our goal is to disrupt and democratise education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts’. - UNU OpenCourseWare
‘The United Nations University is committed to the development of this OCW website that showcases the training and educational programmes implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations’. - USQ OpenCourseWare
‘The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare [USQ OCW] provides access to Free And Open Educational Resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world. USQ OCW does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty members’ - WikiEducator
Among the options are ‘development of Free Content on Wikieducator for e-learning and work on building open education resources.’
Tutorials
Tutorials
Lectures, programs and courseware available online. The following do not include video tutorials which are listed separately.
- eHow
How to tutorials. 14 categories and more than 120 sub-categories. Everything done step-by-step. - Fathom
Quality Free online courses. US based. Now archived at the University of Chicago library, but still fully accessible. - Free Online Courses and Tutorials
Courses and resources available covering just about everything. Education, Professional, Science, Arts/Entertainment, etc.. - How Stuff Works
- Online Tutorial Resources
‘A guide to free, online tutorials, learning objects, open courses and self-paced learning modules on the Internet’. - Online Tutoring
‘Tutorialschool.com is [an] organisation helping students all over the world in better understanding their subjects’. Year 4 to college level, concentrating on Mathematics and Science. Fee-based. - SoYouWanna
Guides on multiple topics. - TutorialFind [V2]
1 500+ courses in 250+ areas. Content is good. - TutorVista
‘TutorVista.com is the premier online destination for affordable education - anytime, anywhere and in any subject. Students can access our service from the convenience of their home or school’. Fee-based. - Virtual Training Suite
‘Free Internet tutorials to develop Internet research skills’. - WannaLearn
350 categories of Free, family safe, online tutorials, etc..
Video Tutorials
Lectures, programs and courseware available in video format.
- Academic Earth
‘Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.’ Select from US Universities, subjects or Top Rate Instructors. - Algebra Tutorials and Lessons
Done by a Home School site. Briefly annotated links cover many aspects/levels. - ArtGraphica
‘Free Online Art Lessons and Commercial Art Tutorials. Learn how to draw, sketch and paint’. - Berkeley Video Courses
Find tutorials by selecting specific area listing, e.g. Chemistry Courses. - FindTutorials
Latest tutorials are listed. Access other using the expanding menu on the left. - Free Video Lectures
‘Bringing Free Education to all’. 18 000+ videos from 20+ universities in India, Australia [1] and the US. - Free Video Tutorials
Tutorials primarily in the computing area. - Got My Idea ?
‘Browse our collection of free video tutorials’. Computer programs and related areas. Archive, related sites, more. - HelpVids
Computing programs. Featured videos, multiple categories, even downloads. All free. - Nova - Watch Online
‘The following NOVA programs are available to watch online, divided conveniently into chapters and closed captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. Note that most NOVA programs are not available for downloading due to rights restrictions.’ Has other media formats besides video as well. - SuTree
‘Use SuTree to learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web. Meet people who share your interests [join]. If you’re looking for free how to videos of good quality, look no further’. - TeacherTube
‘To provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers.’ - YouTube EDU
‘Videos and Channels from college and university partners.’ General lists, Most Viewed, Most Subscribed [Channels]. Also a directory. - Videolectures.Net
‘Access to high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to a scientific community but also the general public.’ Free.