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 effective use of their computers, tablet and smartphone devices.

The Professors range from diverse fields of teaching – history, economics, anthropology, and more. They also range from some of the world’s finest universities such as the University of Miami, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College and more.

Making use of this helpful service is easy. Just visit the website and look below for courses that are currently available. Choose one, and click on the button that says “Enroll”. You can then make an account or sign up with your Facebook account to access the course. The courses are conducted through video lectures, slides and PDFs.

Features

• Service is free to use and helpful.
• Some of the world’s most finest professors dispensing their knowledge.
• Variety of courses available to study.
• Similar tools:  Computer Science 101, FreeVideoLectures and Lectr.

Check out Faculty  Project @ www.facultyproject.com (via FreeTech4Teachers)

SoapBox is also great for creating polls and gathering data, filtering out inappropriate questions and letting users view the archived questions at nay time. Audience members can also answer each other questions to make the session more interactive. The speaker/teacher can also assign moderation of the event to somebody else.

Features:

• Allow audience to actively participate in lectures.
• Let audience ask questions and indicate understanding.
• Create Polls and manage discussions.

Visit SoapBox @ http://gosoapbox.com [Via FreeTech4Teachers]

The Do Lectures collection include talks about business, creativity, environment, food, technology, well-being and more. Distinguished speakers come from great diverse backgrounds and disciplines. While the talks spark wildly different ideas, the binding idea is that the people who do things can inspire others to do things too.

The videos in the website have very good quality, while finding the talks that you love is a breeze. You can browse by topic, tone of the lecture, or by speaker. You can also read the short biography of each speaker in the video.

The Do Lectures is a great resource for teachers, students, or just about anyone who are looking for great ideas to either supplement their own ideas or find new ones.

Features

• Inspiring and engaging speakers.
• Similar to TED conferences.
• Browse by speaker, topic, or tone of lecture.
• Read bios of speakers.

One of these websites is FreeVideoLectures. This website has a great motto: “to organize the world’s educational videos and make them universally accessible and down-loadable”. They offer 700 + free online video courses from more than 25+ top universities on 30+ subjects.

Getting through FreeVideoLectures is very easy. All courses are categorized by Subjects and Universities. Subjects range from the usual Anatomy, Economics, and History, to new courses like IC Design, Signals Systems, and Web Designing. You can click each subject to find a course under them.

Most videos are embedded from third-party sources like YouTube. Some videos also have download links available through Keepvid. In addition, you can share the video to social networking sites, embed them, or subscribe to their RSS feed. While watching the video, you can toggle “Lights Off” so that you can focus on the video lecture.

There are two ways to search through the archives. You can use the Google custom search, or through the Courses List. You can find courses by Subject, Institute, Course Name and Professors.

FreeVideoLectures’ simple interface makes it one of the most useful aggregators of video lectures. This is a great tool for people who just want to sit back and learns without the distractions of a clunky website.

Features:

• Free; no signup required
• View video lectures by subject and university
• 740+ Science Courses Available
• Search for hard-to-find courses
• Download video (MP4, FLV, or 3GP)
• Embed Videos
• Share to Twitter and other social network
• Lights off mode available
• Find courses by subject, institute, course, name, and professor
• Subscribe to RSS

Check out FreeVideoLectures @ www.freevideolectures.com

To start, create an account and fill up your profile and interest. Then customize your own course by changing the icon and posting a course description. Once you publish your first lecture, students interested in your course can subscribe and engage in discussions regarding your course.

The open nature of Udemy allows anyone to search and view courses. You can actually go right in and view video lectures from top universities like Stanford and Columbia. Even then, Udemy is not only limited to academic courses. You can create a course about anything, making it a perfect platform for online tutorials and webinars.

Udemy is a robust tool for educators, students, and just about anyone who want to create an online course.

Features:

• Create online courses for free.
• Subscribe to different courses.
• View your personal dashboard to see your subscribed courses.
• Schedule live sessions.
• Import videos and presentations.
• Find recent activity within your course.
• Search for people and courses.
• You can also read our 6 Really Good Sites with FREE Video Lectures from Top US Colleges.

Check out Udemy @ www.udemy.com

In addition to watching videos users may rate them and leave their comments. There is also an option to contribute by adding quality educational videos from other video sharing sites like Youtube.

Features:

• Search educational videos online.
• Browse by categories and subcategories.
• Rate and leave comments.
• Check out recently posted, most viewed and highest rated videos.
• Contribute by adding educational videos from other websites.
• Browser toolbar to add videos from other sites in snap.
• Similar websites: Lectr, AcademicEarth and MBAvid.

Check out WatchKnow @ www.watchknow.org

Users may browse information on each element by a specific scope (history, uses, crystal structures, isotopes etc). Elements can be also easily compared with each other based on various criteria.

Features:

• Online copy of periodic table of elements for high school students or Chemistry majors.
• Browse the information on elements by a specific scope (History, Uses, Crystal structures, Isotopes etc) by selecting tabs above.
• Download periodic table in PDF format.
• Similar website: PTable.com.

Check out WebElements @ www.webelements.com

Community features such as groups help you in discussing any of your presentations beforehand by uploading it and getting vital suggestions on their improvement. Plus you can create a playlist of videos you find useful.

Features :

• YouTube like site for educational purposes.
• Helpful for teachers and students.
• Discuss your presentations beforehand and get suggestions.
• Create a playlist of videos you find useful.
• Similar websiter: AcademicEarth and MBAvid.

Check out Lectr @ www.lectr.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Click on the element to pull its photos, videos or read its Wikipedia entry. Dynamically highlight elements by their boiling temperatures, search elements by name, view properties of each element (valence, boiling point, hardness, conductivy, radius etc.), view its orbitals or its isotopes and more.

Additionally, users can choose to show/hide certain aspects of the table like electrons, element names and atomic weights. The table can be also viewed in wide mode.

Other features:

• Click on the element to pull its photos, videos or Wikipedia entry.
• Automatically highlight elements by their boiling temperatures.
• Search elements on the table.
• View elements’ interactive orbitals.
• Download the Table in PDF format or as an image file.

Check out Periodic Table of Elements @ www.ptable.com

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