DISTANCE EDUCATION RESOURCES
MIT DISTANCE EDUCATION: http://ocw.mit.edu
MIT’S COURSE ON CONSUMER CULTURE WITH ESSAY AND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS EXPRESSLY CREATED TO DEVELOP EXPOSITORY WRITING SKILLS:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-730-3Consumer-CultureFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm
MIT’S EXPOSITORY WRITING CLASS WITH SAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK AND DOWNLOADABLE ASSIGNMENTS:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-730-3Spring2001/CourseHome/index.htm
LISTENING, SPEAKING AND PRONUNCIATION: A FREE VIDEO COURSE FROM MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
"This course is designed for high-intermediate ESL students who need to develop better listening comprehension and
oral skills, which will primarily be achieved by detailed instructions on pronunciation. Our focus will be on (1) producing
accurate and intelligible English, (2) becoming more comfortable listening to rapidly spoken English, and (3) learning
common expressions, gambits, and idioms used in both formal and informal contexts." Contains select Video Lectures:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-223-listening-speaking-and-pronunciation-fall-2004/
Free Educational Videos from YOU TUBE: College Courses on Video for students to practice their understanding of academic English:
http://www.youtube.com/edu
Yale University Courses Online: offers the Video, the Audio and a Printed Transcript of each lecture:
http://open.yale.edu
Academic Earth: Best Free Educational Videos on the Web: http://www.academicearth.org/
and http://academicroom.com
TED VIDEOS: www.ted.com
“Riveting Talks by Remarkable People, free to the world.”
DUKE UNIVERSITY: Duke MOOC:
http://www.mooc-list.com/university-entity/duke-university See for example English Composition I:
http://www.mooc-list.com/course/english-composition-i-achieving-expertise-coursera
UCALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FREE DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES Berkeley MOOC
http://webcast.berkeley.edu
(MOOC = Massive Open Online Courses) See this course on American Studies as one example:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,d,American_Studies,EC50288191D495B3EE
An Article on Free Education offered by Elite Colleges:
http://www.bdpa-detroit.org/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:moocs-top-10-sites-for-free-education-with-elite-universities&catid=29:education&Itemid=20
(Includes Free Courses offered by Harvard University as one example)
