Peer to Peer Online Open Learning

The P2PU – Peer 2 Peer University
helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work
In practice, this means that the syllabus will each week consist of links [...]

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Video Lectures from College Opencourseware

You can watch and listen to Video Lectures from college and universities. Academic Earth and YouTube Edu list great free opencourseware college video lectures.
Which video lectures would you like to recommend?

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Watch, Listen and Discuss Open Courseware Lectures

Public University Online.com is a university based on public online lectures worldwide,
The lectures are available as streaming video, download, audio and text file in their original languages and can be found by using an easy-to-use search engine, simply by entering a key word or phrase such as “Einstein” or “Theory of Relativity”. When a [...]

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Learn by Watching Opencourseware Video Lectures from Universities

Online Universities.com published a list of open courseware video lectures available from universities. This list includes free video lectures in: Science, Health and Medical, History, Political Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics, Finances, Social Sciences, Literature, The Arts, Philosophy and Religion. Learn from the experts in their fields.

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Why Self Education?

Take a look at almost any great historical figure and you’ll find that he is a product of self-education. Even if he was a college graduate, chances are that he spent years or even decades independently studying topics that were relevant to his life.
Read more: Self Made Scholar

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Learn How to Learn, Major in Learning

Ever notice how many college graduates aren’t doing the jobs they were trained for in college? Was their education a failure? Not necessarily. College taught them how to think. So is there a danger in demanding that colleges measure the specific results of the courses they are teaching?
Source: Insidehighered
Our traditional school and corporate training [...]

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If You Want to Learn, Do You Need to Go to School?

If I want to learn, I ask a friend, I read a book, I visit the web, I go to the library, I ask questions of people who might know something. I try stuff out. I fail a few times. Ok, I fail a lot of times. Eventually I figure it out and move on. [...]

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