self-learning

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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Giving to the Tin Man

August 6, 2009

Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man, that he didn’t already have.   – America A while ago I remarked upon the “alternative” MBA program that marketing guru Seth Godin had announced. Coincidentally, as I was posting recently on Henry Mintzberg’s criticisms of the traditional MBAs in To Learn, To Lead, Seth offered [...]

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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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