Open Access Education Materials
Posted on August 24, 2006 Comments (7)
Watch a video of Richard Baraniuk (Rice University professor speaking at TED) discussing Connexions: an open-access education publishing system. The content available through Connexions includes short content modules such as:
Engineering is the endeavor that creates, maintains, develops, and applies technology for societies’ needs and desires.
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One of the first distinctions that must be made is between science and engineering.
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Science is the study of what is and engineering is the creation of can be.
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One of the first distinctions that must be made is between science and engineering.
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Science is the study of what is and engineering is the creation of can be.
and: Protein Folding, as well as full courses, such as: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I and Physics for K-12.
Related: Google technical talk webcasts (including a presentation by Richard Baraniuk at Google) – podcasts of Technical Talks at Google – science podcast posts – Berkeley and MIT courses online
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Categories: Education, Engineering, K-12, Open Access, Podcast, Popular, Science, Students, Universities
Tags: Education, education content, K-12, Open Access, science education, TED, undergraduate education, university, webcasts
Categories: Education, Engineering, K-12, Open Access, Podcast, Popular, Science, Students, Universities
Tags: Education, education content, K-12, Open Access, science education, TED, undergraduate education, university, webcasts
7 Responses to “Open Access Education Materials”
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August 27th, 2006 @ 10:26 am
People often say that but in synthetic organic chemistry, we generally think of the scientists creating new reactions and the engineers scaling them up.
March 25th, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
Science in School is an open access journal focused on science education published quarterly…
March 29th, 2007 @ 12:00 am
In Myths About the Developing World, Hans Rosling shows some great graphics to display data on health care outcomes. […]
May 30th, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
[…] Another promising looking effort, though they do need to improving the editing of content. […]
August 22nd, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Textbook Revolution is a resource about free textbooks and free related course materials. In general, I must say the prices of textbooks seem crazy. This is another tool great open access resource…
September 6th, 2008 @ 9:19 am
If you are an engineering student or an aspiring engineer reading this article, I would highly suggest the profession (just make sure you note the above points)…
November 19th, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
Financial Markets with Professor Robert Shiller (spring 2008) is a fantastic resource from Open Yale courses: 26 webcast (also available as mp3) lectures on topics…