Friday, June 8, 2012

Dale Stephens' References from Keynote Speech





Dale Stephens gave an inspiring speech this morning on unschooling with a remarkable speed and list of references. Here is a list for those who were not fast enough to type the links. Read the interview with Dale we did for the conference. Here you find another interview, a fellow unschooler did with Dale.

7 Steps to Learn Effectively on UnCollege
http://www.uncollege.org/7-steps-to-learn-effectively/

How Children Learn by John Holt on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201484048/

Accepted - the movie in IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/

Skillshare: Learn anything from anyone, anywhere.
http://www.skillshare.com/

Formerly Coursekit, now Lore: free online course-management
http://lore.com/

Online courses/tutoring:
http://generalassemb.ly/


More from UnCollege:

Open Traditional University Courses

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Course: Free online course at Stanford.
MIT Open Course Ware: Free MIT education. Various multimedia and resources for each course.
Coursera: Offers 40 free courses from leading US Universities
Udacity: 6 free computer science classes from former Stanford professors. 
OCW Consortium : Open CourseWare universities
 

Open Unconventional University Courses


creativeLIVE: Free classes live. Pay for past recorded classes.

Alison: Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online. Offers 300+ free and interactive multimedia training courses.
saylor.org: Free ed. website with 13 areas of study each containing many courses that include readings, assignments, and other media.

Udemy: Attend or create online courses. From free to $250 on any subject. Can include video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, and or classes.
Learnable: Attend or create online courses from $10-50 on Web Dev, Tech, Lifestyle, and Business.

Video and Audio Lectures

TED: Tech Entertainment Design. Presentations of the most innovative ideas from around the world.
 Textbook Revolution: Student-run (crowdsourced) site that provides links to free online textbooks and other educational materials from teacher and professors.
bookboon.com: Over 1000 open ebooks written by professors and other experts for students, business professionals, and travel guides.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals. Free, full text, scientific journals. Research anything.
Project Gutenberg: 36,000+ open books (download as ebook) whose copyrights have expired.
Scribd: “The world’s largest social reading and publishing company. Share and discover entertaining, informative and original written content across the web and mobile devices.”

Online Learning Communities

iversity: The collaboration network for academia.
P2PU: Crowd sourced learning, P2P learning anything.
Sophia: Free learning packets are voted up or down by members and stamped for correctness. Over 1000 learning packets mostly in Math, English and Science.
Wikiversity: Search the 15,000+ Wikipedia resources by type, school, level, and completion status.
 The Public School: School with no curriculum, classes proposed by public, people can sign up, and when there is enough interest, they find a teacher.
Citizen Circles : Social Innovation fueled by peer learning. 3+ person groups that solve local problems.
Learning Unlimited: Learning Unlimited is leading a movement of college students teaching high school students everything and anything.

Study Groups

Course Hero: Access to the learning materials, tutors, and textbook help.
OpenStudy: 1000s of students. Find students who can help you. Post a question and others answer.
hoot.me: Switch Facebook into study mode.
Codecademy: Learn coding with your friends. Take courses for beginners.

StackExchange: Growing network of 66 Q&A sites on many diverse topics.
Kibin: Crowdsourced editing community for essays, articles, resumes, poems, and any written content.




 



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