EDUCATION SPECIAL...International Educators

International Educators

Coursera I Regarded as the best website for online education, four of Coursera’s courses have been deemed worthy of college credit. The material, spanning across subjects such as humanities, medicine, mathematics, social sciences, business, etc, are all designed by world-class professors. Learn at your own pace, test your knowledge and reinforce concepts with exercises.
www.coursera.org
Khan Academy I With almost 4,000 videos that will teach you about any subject you want to learn, the sheer number of topics covered here is Khan Academy’s biggest selling point – and hey, it’s all free. It has gotten plaudits from education experts across the world. Students are advised to make good use of the dashboard feature that lets them track their academic progress.
www.khanacademy.org
TED-Ed I TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), the ideasharing platform, has an offshoot dedicated to education that is choc-a-block full of videos to help in learning. TED-Ed is not really academic or adhering to curriculum. The videos are meant to augment what you learn in a classroom. The best part is that each video comes with links to dig deeper into the topic, as well as multiple choice and short answer questions.
ed.ted.com
MIT Open CourseWare I The world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has put a large amount of its under-graduate and graduate courseware online for anyone in the world to use, from lecture notes to full videos of classes.
ocw.mit.edu
YouTube Edu I From Khan Academy to Stanford University, most online academic providers use YouTube as a partner; and the video-sharing service has put them all together under one roof, hosting over 7,00,000 highquality educational videos. YouTube Edu has short lessons from top teachers across the world, full courses, and videos from global thought-leaders. And yup, it’s all free.
www.youtube.com/education
    (with inputs from Shreya Bhandary)

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