Top 10 tools for a free online education

Posted by Chris Benjamin in Cool sites Mar 29th, 2009 | No Comments

image It’s easy to forget these days that the internet started out as a place for academics and researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with these free resources for educating yourself online.

LifeHacker has an interesting post listing some various sites where you can teach yourself a great number of things:

  • Teach yourself programming
  • Get a Personal MBA
  • Learn to actually use Ubuntu
  • Get started on a new language
  • Trade your skills, find an instructor
  • Academic Earth and YouTube EDU
  • Teach yourself all kinds of photography
  • Get an unofficial liberal arts major
  • Learn an instrument
  • Learn from actual college courses online

If any of the above interests you then go check out the original article at LifeHacker.

NYU to debut gaming degree program next fall

Posted by Chris Benjamin in gaming Dec 11th, 2008 | No Comments

Students at New York University may soon study how to make games instead of simply skip class to play them. A first for any college in New York City, beginning next fall NYU will offer “long-term undergraduate and graduate degrees in the research, design and development of digital games.”

Read the full article at Joystiq