LibrarySpot

LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
LibrarySpot is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable [...]

November 29th, 2007 | Category: Research | Comments are closed

Connexions

Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
Connexions is:

a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

authors create and collaborate

instructors rapidly build and share custom collections

learners find [...]

November 29th, 2007 | Category: Tips | Comments are closed

Free physics textbook

Wide Open Education » Motion Mountain
Motion Mountain is by far the best open textbook Wynn Williamson has come across. It’s so good because it’s not so different from any other textbook. That’s a higher complement than it sounds. Clocking in at almost 1500 pages in this 21st edition, the book could easily substitute any [...]

November 27th, 2007 | Category: Education | Comments are closed

2collab

Intute: Social Sciences – Full record details for 2collab
2collab is a free social bookmarking site from publisher Elsevier. It aims to encourage academic researchers to create and share bookmarks of key internet resources (articles, journals, web resources) in private or public groups. Registration is required to use all the web 2.0 features. However it [...]

November 21st, 2007 | Category: Research | Comments are closed

How to take a course at MIT free — at home

How to take a course at MIT free — at home
You may not have the grades, the money or even the means to get to a physics class with one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s best lecturers.

But if you have an Internet connection anywhere in the world, you can watch a video of [...]

November 21st, 2007 | Category: Education | Comments are closed

Books online

Another one for the readers | Wise Bread
So, you’ve read my other posts on reading (and Tannaz’s ) and you’ve self-identified as a Reader. You want to read. But books are expensive. And big. And bulky. But you still want to read. In fact, you’re dying to find just a few more words to [...]

November 21st, 2007 | Category: Tips | Comments are closed