Showing posts with label lecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lecture. Show all posts

Thursday, August 23, 2012

How to get Educated Online For Free


Have you ever wondered if you could just take a class to learn but not for a degree? Is the cost stopping you? Learning can be an expensive hobby, but not when you find the right online resources. You want lectures from Stanford professors? Whole classes of lectures? A variety of subjects? You can find all this and more online.
Most people I know use YouTube to search for music videos, or to look at the latest new viral video. Did you know you can also use YouTube as a learning resource? Check out this video series I found on Human Behavioral Biology. The whole Stanford course! You do not even need a textbook, I’ve just been watching in sections each day and taking notes, exercising the mind.
This is not the only video series of a class online. Check out this website comprehensive list of free lectures online. Also as I come across more sites I will list them on the Education page, the tab next to Home above this article.


Sources:

http://freevideolectures.com/
http://www.youtube.com/?noredirect=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&feature=bf_prev&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

Laryngeal Nerve On a Dissected Giraffe

      This video is not for the faint of heart. If you have never seen a large mammal dissection this may be disturbing. Older audiences only.

      This is biological history at its finest. Finding evidence of evolutionary processes that do not fit our mainstream intelligent design theories. Thought I would share this, maybe I am the only one fascinated. Imagine being able to take a class where you could watch this, how many people get to dissect a Giraffe? I saw my first large mammal autopsy in the third grade. The result of a sudden death of one of our livestock. My Dad being a biologist thought it was a golden opportunity for learning. It was. I learned about animals having multiple stomachs, about hearts, other organs, and more. It exposed me to science at a young age, so that when I had to dissect a cow eye two years later in school it was no problem. I am thankful for having these scientific experiences, and it made me into a science lover today.