Stormseed » education http://stormseed.com Technology with a purpose. Usually. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:32:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Top 10 tools for a free online education http://stormseed.com/2009/03/29/top-10-tools-for-a-free-online-education/ http://stormseed.com/2009/03/29/top-10-tools-for-a-free-online-education/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:19:35 +0000 Chris Benjamin http://www.beaglebits.com/2009/03/top-10-tools-for-a-free-online-education/
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    • ]]>     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.

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    ]]>     http://stormseed.com/2009/03/29/top-10-tools-for-a-free-online-education/feed/ 0     NYU to debut gaming degree program next fall http://stormseed.com/2008/12/11/nyu-to-debut-gaming-degree-program-next-fall/ http://stormseed.com/2008/12/11/nyu-to-debut-gaming-degree-program-next-fall/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:25:22 +0000 Chris Benjamin http://www.beaglebits.com/2008/12/nyu-to-debut-gaming-degree-program-next-fall/
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    • ]]>     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

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