Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites?

Posted by EzGraphs on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Educational sites like Khan Academy, Stanford's online offerings, OpenCourseWare MITx popping up at a rapid pace and changing the way we learn. What are the best sites of this kind that you use?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by EzGraphs on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:52AM (#3606800)

To give a bit of context I've been working on a site that aggregates online learning opportunities:

http://gradesquare.com/by_source

At this point we have courses from the following sites:

Annenberg Learner Blender Cookie CMU Google Course Khan Academy MIT Blossoms OCW JH OCW MIT Open Yale Courses Stanford

A number of others have been flagged as possibilities - but I would like to hear which ones the HN crowd frequents before adding more.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by jmau5 on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:13AM (#3612058)

I'm registered for CS101: Building a Search Engine and CS373: Programming Robotic Cars over at Udacity. Both classes are scheduled to start in a few hours and I highly recommend you get over there and join the fun. Both classes are being led by Sebastian Thrun, ex-Stanford professor, Google Fellow, and instructor of the highly successful Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course than Stanford hosted last year.

Link: http://www.udacity.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by EzGraphs on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:54PM (#3614481)

Good suggestion - they are on our horizon for sure. Best wishes on your classes.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by carusen on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:53AM (#3606806)

You are interested only in academic learning and courses or on learning about some very specific things?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by EzGraphs on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:58AM (#3606817)

Anything really. We started with a pretty heavy emphasis on traditional academics - but many of those sites are the best publicized as well.

An idea for the list of subjects we currently flagged (sorry about the dups):

http://gradesquare.com/by_subject

We are open hearing any ideas.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by sl4yerr on Sunday February 19, 2012 @07:36AM (#3609217)

Kind of cliche, but Ted might be worth considering.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by EzGraphs on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:53PM (#3614478)

Actually - a very interesting suggestion. I have always thought of the videos there in a different category (motivational speaking). They definitely have an educational component though.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by nextparadigms on Saturday February 18, 2012 @11:38AM (#3606920)

academicearth.org, youtube.com/edu, thenewboston.com (programming). All are video-based, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Learning Sites? by EzGraphs on Saturday February 18, 2012 @12:22PM (#3607046)

Nice - the thenewboston.com is completely new to me.

The other two are good ideas as well. It looks like these use resources that appear in other sites (AcademicEarth has OCW related content, YouTube has Khan Academy). It will be interesting to see over time what sites are the "starting points" for obtaining educational content.

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