Our goal is to list all online courses offered free from top universities. We tend to think of educational institutions in the context of sporting events, the most popular, of which, is football. Accordingly, each of these top universities (or colleges, as the case may be) will appear on a separate page of this website [...]
MITx MIT’s new online learning initiative MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. Sleeping Beauty will be [...]
The Top 10 Universities (academically) The Top 10 Universities, Academically, are: Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, The Top 10 Universities Contributing Players to Superbowl 46 Thanks to Joe Dorish, Yahoo! Contributor Network Jan 29th, [...]
While browsing through comments on Opra’s website, I came across a comment on October 15, 2011 that prompted me to write this short note. The writer was interested in taking courses on Graphic Design. Anyone with a thirst for knowledge should investigate MIT’s Opencourseware. Here’s a representative example of free online courses on the topic of Graphic [...]
On December 19, 2011, MIT announced the launch of an online learning platform, “MITx.” MITx is a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host [...]
This BBC News Item The California Institute of Technology is in first place in world rankings, says the Times Higher Education magazine, pushing Harvard into a second place tie with Stanford. Princeton was fifth. UK Schools coming in fourth and sixth respectively are Oxford and Cambridge. Caltech is a relatively small institution, with about 2,000 [...]
Guohua Li of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health says that drivers who use marijuana before driving are twice as likely to crash as those who don’t. The study involved an analysis of data from nine prior studies in six countries, focusing on marijuana use and motor vehicle accidents. Five out of the six [...]
Was Steve Jobs a modern-day Thomas Edison? One person who firmly believed he was is Joel Podolny, former dean of the Yale School of Management. Describing Jobs as “a modern-day Thomas Edison”, Joel Podolny decided to leave Yale University for the chance to work with Steve Jobs. An economic sociologist who focuses on leadership and [...]
Do economic policy decisions cause an event or are they the effect of anticipated events! Did a political decision cause an event or was it the effect of an event? Princeton’s Dr. Christopher A. Sims shared the economic science Nobel prize this year for his research into the cause / effect relationship between economic policy [...]
Three Harvard graduates share the Nobel Physics Prize for discovering that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess will each receive a quarter of the $1.4 million prize, Saul Perlmutter will receive half. Related article – Harvard’s Ig Nobel prize: Mad Scientists and Spoof Nobel Prize: Beetle Mating, Yawning Turtles And [...]