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How do I find quality websites on my topic?
Sites By Subject
Don't forget to try the Internet Public Library, a collection of high-quality web sites hand-picked by professional librarians.
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| Academic Earth | "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars." Participating Universities are:
Lectures cover a wide range of subjects and disciplines. |
| Carnegie-Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative | No instructors, no credits, no charge. "Use these self-guiding materials and activities to learn at your own pace!" |
| CommonCraft | Plain-English, easy-to-understand video explanations covering a wide range of complex concepts, from social networking sites to the United States Electoral College. |
| Forum Network | A site sponsored by PBS and NPR, featuring:
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| FreeDocumentaries.org | "Freedocumentaries.org streams full-length documentary films free of charge, with no registration needed. For several films, we even offer the ability to watch trailers or to download the actual film.
The films are gathered by our researchers as we scour the web for well-produced videos and present them to our viewers. We adhere to all copyright laws and honor the wishes of the producers." |
| Hulu | Watch free streaming video of TV shows, movies, movie trailers and more. |
| Khan Academy | "With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 240 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace." |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
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| Open Yale Courses | "Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn." |
| TED-Ed (YouTube Channel) | TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) "TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools." |
| YouTube EDU | You know this is a fun place to go for news and entertainment, but did you know YouTube has some great educational and academic videos as well? Give it a try! |
| Woopid | "Watch free technology training videos! Get help and answer your computer and gadget questions with thousands of video tutorials for PCs, Macs, and tons of different applications." |
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