self education

Self Education: Five Essential Sites

March 10, 2010

Big lists of free online courses, Web tools, learning games, and other resources for lifelong learners are relatively easy to find, but sites with a serious focus on helping people along the journey of self-education are fewer and farther between. Here are five you may want to bookmark or add to your feed reader.

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A Lifelong Learning Guide Post

June 18, 2009

If you are new to Mission to Learn, or have simply decided to spend a bit more time exploring what is here, the posts listed on this page represent good places to start. It’s also good to know that the whole focus here is on lifelong learning. I mean that not so much in the [...]

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Learning Set Free

January 21, 2009

There’s a passage in one of George Siemens’ recent postings that I like so much I’m tempted simply to quote it and hit publish. In reviewing an article on “courseocentricsm” Siemens says: I like the idea of thinning our classroom walls and allowing connections to be formed between concepts from other subject areas. But that [...]

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