The Faculty Project is a handy online website that is dedicated to bringing some of the finest educational material online from some of the most experienced professors in the world. The Faculty Project has sought to bring some of the world’s best professors from the world’s leading universities online – available free for students, making [...]
Many audience members often shy away from asking questions or challenging the speaker publicly. SoapBox easily solves that problem by creating a portal that lets audience members indicate their level of understanding along with asking questions to the speaker. It is totally online so nobody has to raise a hand or stand up. When somebody [...]
If you would like to watch a lot more talks and lectures than TED can provide, then you may also need to check out the Do Lectures. These so-called “unconferences” may have been around for a while, but this collection of lectures from the most engaging, inspiring speakers from around the world still provide viewers [...]
The internet has made a big leap in providing people access to educational materials. People who cannot afford to go to Harvard or Oxford can now view podcasts, videos, and course materials without ever having to enroll. Apple pushed the envelope with iTunes U, but we also have other websites that aggregate the best online [...]
If you are a teacher looking for free websites to create online courses, then you should check out Udemy. This educational tool allows you to draft and publish your own interactive course complete with videos, presentations, articles, mashups, and live sessions. You can create individual lectures within Udemy where you can add appropriate teaching materials [...]
WatchKnow is a new educational video resource for students and teachers. It aggregates quality educational video content from all over the web and nicely organizes these videos into various categories (Mathematics, Science, History, Practical Skills, Pedagogy… etc.). The videos are presented on a clean interface. In addition to watching videos users may rate them and leave [...]
WebElements is a web based copy of the periodic table of elements, useful tool to anyone majoring in Chemistry or almost every high-school student. It allows users to get more information about any element on the table, see it’s pictures, crystal structure, atom sizes, isotopes and other properties. Users may browse information on each element [...]
Lectr.com is a new educational video sharing site that focuses primarily on educational content. It provides videos of lectures given by various teachers and professors on a variety of topics and subjects that could prove helpful for college students. You can search for videos on topics you want to learn by typing in the query. [...]
If you are a Chemistry major or just trying to make through your Chemistry class, chances are you have use the Periodic Table of Elements very often. The Ptable.com is a cool periodic table with a detailed graphical representation for each element. Click on the element to pull its photos, videos or read its Wikipedia [...]
Mango Languages is a newly launched interactive web-based language tutor. Choose from over 10 languages accompanied by audio and Powerpoint-like slides. Currently Available Courses: – For English speakers: Japanese, Pig. Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Greek, German, and French. – For Spanish speakers: English – and some more … Go to Mango [...]