Stanford, MIT, Khan Academy:

A semi-comprehensive list of online education resources

Universities like Stanford and MIT have made class materials available online for many years now, but the recent success of Khan Academy and Stanford's "take a Stanford class, just like Stanford students" initiative (e.g., their machine learning class) has emboldened interest in internet-based learning.

I could not find a consistently-maintained list of such resources, so I made one. It is definitely biased towards CS. If you know of something that is not here please drop me an email at clemmer.alexander@gmail.com, and I'll update the list accordingly.

Table of Contents

This list is broken up into a couple of sections.

University Programs, which are course materials officially funded and released by universities.
Original Material, video lectures made by people for the Internet (e.g., Khan Academy).
Material Aggregation Sites, sites that aggregate materials and lectures from other places on the Internet.
Peer-based Environments, sites that emphasize either peer teaching or peer studying (or both).
University-level Research, sites that emphasize research material.

University Programs

A number of universities make course material available online. Sometimes this means video lectures, sometimes this means notes and syllabi. Note that OpenCourseWare is a persistent initiative that provides similar materials across the number of universities that participate in it.

Alphabetical. Approximately popular courses of study are bolded.

University of California, Berkeley	MSRI colloquiua and workshops	[hard link]
	YouTube lectures	[hard link]
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	OpenLearningInitiative	[hard link]
University of Chicago	mindonline	[hard link]
Harvard University	Harvard Extension School	[hard link]
India Institute of Technology	NPTEL	[hard link]
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)	OpenCourseWare	[hard link]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	OpenCourseWare	[hard link]
University of Minnesota	Colloquiua and Workshops	[hard link]
University of New South Wales	YouTube lectures	[hard link]
University of the People	Full Tuition-free Education	[hard link]
Rice University	Connexions	[hard link]
Stanford University	Stanford Engineering Everywhere	[hard link]
	OpenClassroom	[hard link]
	iTunes University	[hard link]
	YouTube lectures	[hard link]
University of Sydney	Podcast lectures	[hard link]
Tufts University	OpenCourseWare	[hard link]
Utah State University	OpenCourseWare	[hard link]
University of Virginia	Podcast lectures	[hard link]
Yale University	Open Yale courses	[hard link]
	YouTube lectures	[hard link]

Original Material

One of the key reasons for this recent rise in interest in internet-based education is Khan Academy, whose comprehensive and prolific lectures on everything from Physics to Art History supplement normal classroom education well. At least in the case of KA, the idea is to free up teachers to use class times to do class projects, rather than being forced to teach the basic material on a marginally-effective basis.

Alphabetical. Approximately popular courses of study are bolded.

Freelance Teacher	Original YouTube lectures	[hard link]
Khan Academy	Original YouTube lectures	[hard link]

Material Aggregation Sites

One major problem with university-administrated educational sites is that they are tied to the institution that they represent. Aggregation sites solve this problem by organizing lots of content in one place. For this reason, the entrants here tend to be fairly high quality on average.

Alphabetical. Approximately popular courses of study are bolded.

100 Best Intro Courses	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
Academic Earth	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
Academic Earth	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
CosmoLearning	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
FreeVideoLectures	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
IncrediCampus	Aggregated course material	[hard link]
LearnersTV	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
LectureFox	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
OpenCulture	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]
TED	Lectures from an idea conference	[hard link]
Wikiversity	Educational wikis	[hard link]
YouTube edu	Aggregated YouTube lectures	[hard link]

Peer-Based Environments

Another problem with, for example, OpenCourseWare, is that there is no interaction with other people. Peer-based education sites address this problem.

Alphabetical. Approximately popular courses of study are bolded.

OpenStudy	Peer-centric Study Groups	[hard link]
Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU)	Peer-centric school	[hard link]

University-level Research

Traditional university research tends to be contained in journals and conferences. With sites like videolectures.net this is starting to change, though it should be noted that this tends to happen mainly for expensive conferences (e.g., machine learning conferences).

Alphabetical. Approximately popular courses of study are bolded.

Directory of Open Access Journals	University research directory	[hard link]
Videolectures.net	University-level research lectures	[hard link]

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