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Best elearning website:

In this post, I will list some of the best elearning websites. In my first post, I mentioned Khan Academy and Coursera. Below are some other interesting websites.

edX:

EdX is a non-profit organization founded in May 2012 by scientists from Harvard and MIT. Gerry Sussman, Anant Agarwal, Chris Terman, and Piotr Mitros taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, drawing 155,000 students from 162 countries. In 2013, they partnered with Stanford and in June 2013 they reached 1 million students!
What is so special with edX is that they developed their own platform as an open source and made it free and available to other institutions of higher learning that want to make similar offerings.
Click HERE for more info.

MIT OCW:

MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate – and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OCW is considered one of the oldest initiatives. The first courses were uploaded in 2001 and by now they have more than 3000 courses!
Click HERE for more info.

Open Yale courses:

Just like MIT, Yale University has its own online elearning website. Open Yale courses launched in 2007 with generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Topics range from Economics, American studies, Astrology, History, Arts, Music, Philosophy and other domains.
Click HERE for more info.

TED

Learning is about sharing knowledge, experience, and ideas. Learning is not just academics or differential equations. Learning can be Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED was found in 1984 as a conference. Since that date, thousands of “ideas worth spreading” were spreaded. TED-Ed is TED’s youth educational initiative. More than 260K lessons were created and are available for free.
Click HERE for more info.

Tired of all this, have a break and enjoy this Amazing Bagpipes Show with Andre Rieu.


Don’t forget to tell us about your best elearning website!




References:
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://ed.ted.com/about




Comments

  1. UnknownSeptember 22, 2017 at 8:30 AM

    Your comment last time really clarified the difference between online and elearning. I think TED can be such a great resource, as it always offers such a variety of topics. I also know at least for music that there are a lot of short educational series offered on YouTube that are offered by different organizations, such as Jazz Academy, run by Lincoln Center.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JgwfP15kw

    This is just one of their videos from the series!

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    1. Abubakr AbdelrasoulSeptember 22, 2017 at 11:43 AM

      Hi Liana
      I'm happy that you read my previous post. Actually after positing it I tried to comment on your blog to ask you to read it, but seems something went wrong and I couldn't comment. I tried to send an email, but didn't find yours!
      thanks for sharing Jazz academy link. I liked your short, yet nice and useful videos. No one wants to have a two hour session now a days!
      thanks

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  2. UnknownSeptember 23, 2017 at 11:51 AM

    Abu, thank you for sharing these websites for us. I have watched lots of presentation videos on the TED website before which enriched myself and expanded my horizon. I'm gonna share another e-learning website for you: https://www.w3schools.com. It is a popular website for learning web technologies online including teaching students the various aspects of web design, HTML,CSS etc. Students can select whatever they want to learn. The most important, it is free! Students can even take a final test to prove their mastery and they can receive a certificate of completion if they pay an extra fee.

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    1. Abubakr AbdelrasoulSeptember 23, 2017 at 1:58 PM

      Hi Yi Qian
      Yes, TED is really wonderful resource not only for learning new things but to see how our world is developing.
      Thanks for sharing https://www.w3schools.com. I visited their website and seems very professional and have many courses. I think their HTML course will benefit some of us in current courses.
      From the list I shared, and now this website, I noticed that the focus is on technology related courses. Not sure why is this, but wish to see some humanitarian studies courses.
      thanks!

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  3. UnknownSeptember 24, 2017 at 5:18 PM

    Hello Abu,

    I am absolutely blown away by the offerings of edX and their online courses. In fact, I signed-up immediately and will almost certainly take advantage of one such course in the near future. Can't wait to learn more!

    Thanks for finding so many useful resources, and defining how they can impact education!

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  4. UnknownSeptember 30, 2017 at 5:29 PM

    Hello Abubakr, I like Khan Academy, and hoped my kids like its videos as well. It's just hard to keep motivating them to learn from the site.

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    1. Abubakr AbdelrasoulSeptember 30, 2017 at 7:30 PM

      Hi Hyo
      This is a very correct and interesting point. The problem isn’t only with your kids, but with all or majority of them. It’s a challenge that all elearning pioneers need to deal with it. Some technique is to have very short videos, some use interactivity and so on. However, if kids aren’t mentored and supervised by adults (i.e. parents or teachers), elearning might not be of great value for them.
      Learning games seems to be very interesting and captivating techniques. Please refer to Nathan’s post as he elaborated on this topic.

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