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Website with free science courses
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I found a website with a bunch of free, open courses in the sciences, including Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to share.
 There's a bunch of them!http://academicearth.org/  RE: Website with free science courses
March 16, 2014 at 10:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 10:06 pm by Cyberman.)
Nice find!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Cool!
I'd sign up for an online class on argumentation in January but I only made it to week three before I fell behind in the lectures and videos...  When you're not paying money and it's not for a grade I find there's little incentive to see it through. At least for me.Then again, if I hadn't've been training for my marathon, on a mission to read all the books I bought in December and house hunting at the same time I might have stuck it out longer.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
I've signed up for a few courses on different sites, so we'll see how that goes. Even if I don't keep up, just watching a few lectures or reading a little is find with me. At least I'll learn something! Also, I did some more digging and found a few more websites with some different topics. Enjoy!
http://www.saylor.org http://www.khanacademy.org (this one I particularly like because it's interactive) http://www.theopenacademy.com http://www.coursera.org http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm (MIT) http://www.openculture.com A few of these sites have audio lectures you can get free on iTunes, too, so you can listen in the car or where ever.
I thought for sure this was going to be a link to theoretical physicist Brian Greene's new online courses at worldscienceu.com.
There are only two so far, but it looks very promising.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
I use some of these as help for my college courses. Mainly when when a teacher isn't to good at teaching.
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