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OPEN COURSEWARE —> Return to Education Category Index

  • OpenCourseWare Consortium: www.ocwconsortium.org The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
  • MIT, OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
  • OpenContent: www.opencontent.org Offers information and links to open courseware.
  • OpenLearn (Open University): http://openlearn.open.ac.uk One of the world’s largest and oldest distance-learning institutions. OpenLearn has freely available courseware paired with discussion forums, so you can connect with other students who are making their way through the same material.
  • Open University of the Netherlands, Wikiwijs: www.opener.ou.nl Open courseware for Dutch students.
  • Open Yale Courses (Yale University): http://oyc.yale.edu 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.

OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Carnegie Melon University, Open Learning Initiative: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/ Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction – or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning.
  • Chamberlin, Lisa – “Open Ph.D.–An Experiment in Higher Learning” blog: http://openphd.wordpress.com Lisa is an educator working on her Ph.D. from open education sources – and showing others how they can get through college for free.
  • Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources: http://oerconsortium.org The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement encourages the creation of free, high-quality content for community college courses to replace commonly used textbooks. By promoting OER, community colleges can create sustainable academic resources for students and provide professional development opportunities for faculty.
  • Connexions: www.cnx.org A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, book, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute. Authors create and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom collections, and learners find and explore content.
  • Creative Commons, Open Ed: http://opened.creativecommons.org Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure essential to the long-term success of OER (learning materials that are freely available to use, remix, and redistribute), making it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.
  • Creative Commons: www.creativecommons.org Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.
  • Drupal: www.drupal.org Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
  • Flat World Knowledge: www.flatworldknowledge.com Texts books written by leading experts and then flipped around. Books are free online, and they offer convenient, low-cost choices for students – print-on-demand softcovers, audio books and chapters, self-print options, and more. Books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course — not for anybody else’s). These books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other.
  • Free School (Portland, OR): http://portland.freeskool.org The free school is dedicated to social change through free education and community building. They believe that education is an ever-evolving process that should be available to all, free of monetary value. This is a grassroots effort with a group of volunteers acting collectively and autonomously to create a skill-sharing network and a school without institutional control, educating horizontally rather than through hierarchy.
  • Indira Gandhi National Open University: www.ignou.ac.in Their goal is to advance knowledge and promote its dissemination through sustainable open and distance learning systems and make it accessible to all.
  • Moodle: www.moodle.org Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
  • OER Africa: www.oerafrica.org Open Education Resources for African students.
  • Omniacademy: www.omniacademy.com Patent-pending method for professors to syndicate their courses to other colleges live over the Web, using a combination of video lectures and a social network environment.
  • Peer2Peer University: www.p2pu.org The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.
  • Pocket School project: www.stanford.edu/~phkim/project/consulting.html With a passion to connect people around the world, from all backgrounds and circumstances, pocket schools empower them to teach themselves using appropriate technology that is designed and redesigned by an informal network of students and volunteers to be responsive to their needs.
  • School of Everything: www.schoolofeverything.com Learn how to do just about anything from either free or pay-for courses.
  • Siemens, George and Stephen Downes, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/ Massively open online course
  • Slideshare: www.slideshare.net Great way to share presentations, documents and professional videos online.
  • Smart.fm: www.smart.fm Site that sets up learning goals by having new lessons every week for members – anything from learning a new language to history.
  • Stack Overflow: www.stackoverflow.com Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers – regardless of platform or language.
  • Teachstreet: www.teachstreet.com Similar to School of Everything, an online community for people who love to learn.
  • Transforming Teaching Through Technology (T): http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4 A project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison that supports the development of simple, purpose-built games in areas economics, foreign languages, music theory, math and science.
  • Wikieducator: www.wikieducator.org A place for educators to share their knowledge freely (in every sense of the word).
  • Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org A Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects and research for use in all levels, types and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. Teachers, students and researchers are invited to create open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.
  • Wiley, David, Introduction to Open Education: http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/ College course on Open Education

ONLINE EDUCATION —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Academic Earth: www.academicearth.org Online degrees and courses from leading universities. Collects and rates videos of lectures from many top schools. Named one of Time magazine’s top Web sites of 2009.
  • College Choices for Adults: www.collegechoicesforadults.org Information on distance learning programs for adults, along with info about each course, student performance, and reviews on course work.
  • CosmoLearning: www.cosmolearning.com A free online school, CosmoLearning is an educational website committed to improve the quality of homeschooling, teaching and student excellence, helping educators and self-learners alike anywhere in the world.
  • Couros, Alec, Open Access Course: Social Media and Open Education: http://educationtechnology.ca/couros/1673 Search engine for online schools.
  • eduFire: www.edufire.com Online video classes on myriad topics based around the students’ schedule.
  • eLearners: www.elearners.com Extensive search engine for online schools and degrees.
  • Engage (University of Wisconsin): http://engage.wisc.edu/ The Engage program seeks to transform teaching and learning through the use of technology. Transforming Teaching Through Technology (T4) sponsors the program.
  • Excelsior College: www.excelsior.edu Working adults can earn the degrees they need with flexible distance learning programs. Found on the fundamental philosophy that what you know is more important than where or how you learned it.
  • Grand Canyon University: www.gcu.edu Recognized as offering some of the best online education courses in the nation.
  • Kaplan University: www.kaplanuniversity.com A flexible, online university for working adults that fits their schedule and costs less than most universities.
  • MyMathLab: www.mymathlab.com Provides instructors with a rich and flexible set of course materials, along with course-management tools that make it easy to deliver all or a portion of a course online.
  • Online Education Database: www.oedb.org OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,025 programs from 83 accredited online colleges. The database only lists accredited online colleges.
  • Open High School of Utah: www.openhighschool.org The Open High School of Utah is a public charter school designed to meet the needs of the 21st century student.  As an online school, we combine state of the art curriculum with strategic one-on-one instruction.  Our methods can be described as “one-on-one tutoring for every student in every subject”. Instruction is individualized allowing students to work at their pace. Our delivery of education is structured to provide maximum flexibility that is student-centered; responsive to the needs of each learner, eliminating the negative aspects of a one size fits all system.
  • SpacedEd: www.spaceded.com A Web site that offers free and low cost short courses based on research developed by a professor at Harvard Medical School. Many medical and general interest topics are covered.
  • Straighterline: www.straighterline.com A new way to complete your required college courses online for less – less money, less time, and less hassle – with convenient and affordable online college courses you can take on your own schedule. These aren’t your typical distance learning courses.
  • Unclasses: www.unclasses.org Free online communities where you can learn or teach a plethora of subjects.
  • University of the People: www.uopeople.org University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university-level studies within reach of millions of people across the world. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education.
  • University of Wisconsin, Engage: http://engage.wisc.edu/ The Engage program seeks to transform teaching and learning through the use of technology. The program is sponsored by Transforming Teaching Through Technology (T4), a part of the Madison Initiative.
  • Western Governors University: www.wgu.edu Western Governors University is an online university driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. WGU has flourished into a national university, serving over 19,000 students from all 50 states. The university continues to open doors for adult learners who need flexibility to achieve their education and career goals.
  • YouTubeEDU: www.youtube.com/edu Free audio and video from top-tier universities, museums, archives and other cultural institutions can be found here.

EDUCATION/ACADEMIC RESOURCES —> Return to Education Category Index

  • 2tor: www.2tor.com 2tor collaborates with preeminent institutions of higher education to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online. 2tor supplies universities with the tools, expertise, capital, and global recruiting needed to compete in a space currently dominated by unexceptional programs. 2tor develops state-of-the-art technology platforms that enhance traditional offline curricula to create transformative instruction using the best educational and Web 2.0 technologies. 2tor also develops the human and support infrastructure needed “on the ground” and provides the vital—yet often-overlooked—logistical components of any online program, including comprehensive student support services from enrollment through graduation and beyond as well as practical learning experiences within distant communities around the country.
  • AcaWiki: http://acawiki.org/Home AcaWiki is like a “Wikipedia for academic research” designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible.
  • Best Colleges/Majors/Degrees (Payscale): www.payscale.com/best-colleges College Salary Report: lists of salaries by school, best paying majors, most popular schools by job, most popular jobs by degree.
  • Best Colleges (US News and World Report): www.usnews.com/sections/education Best College Rankings for 2010-11 (and years prior)
  • Blackboard: www.blackboard.com Blackboard is focused on helping institutions at all levels drive learner achievement by creating personalized and engaging experience in and out of the classroom.
  • College Board, “Scholarship Finder”: http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp An online tool to help you locate scholarships, internships, grants, and loans that match your education level, talents, and background. Complete the brief questionnaire and Scholarship Search will find potential opportunities from our database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding, totaling nearly $3 BILLION in available aid!
  • College Navigator (National Center for Education Statistics): http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ Compares tuition costs and raises, showing which schools are raising tuition less or more than the national average. Also lists the expected costs of each school for the following two years.
  • Collegiate Learning Assessment: www.collegiatelearningassessment.org The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) offers an authentic approach to the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education through a continuous improvement model, and recognizes faculty as central actors in educational improvement efforts. The CLA assists faculty, department chairs, school administrators and others interested in programmatic change to improve teaching and learning, particularly with respect to strengthening higher order skills.
  • Consultants Bon Education: http://boneducation.com Bon Education’s mission is to help organizations integrate education and technology to improve stakeholder learning, communication and engagement.
  • Department of Education, “Completing the FAFSA”: http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/completing_fafsa/index.html Intro to FAFSA explaining how it works.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. There are now 5308 journals in the directory. Currently 2210 journals are searchable at article level. As of today, 420092 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
  • Education Degree Source: www.educationdegreesource.com Connecting working adults with more than 30 accredited colleges and universities offering online and campus based degrees with flexible schedules.
  • Europeana: www.europeana.eu Links to more than 6 million images, texts, sounds and videos of paintings, maps, newspapers, diaries and so much more – a great library of Europe’s hidden treasures.
  • Fastweb: http://edu.fastweb.com/v/o_registration/flow/step1 Get matched with up to $3 billion in scholarships.
  • FinAid: www.finaid.org A comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools.
  • FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Free mind-mapping software for any task you can think of.
  • Google Reader: www.google.com/reader/ Google will continuously check your favorite sites for new content, updating you when something new pops up.
  • Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scholarly articles and journals.
  • Grockit: www.grockit.com A brief test will pinpoint a student’s academic strengths and needs and generate a personalized study plan. Students practice with, learn from, and compete with millions of peers on the subject of their choice using live chat in Grockit Group Study while receiving expert instruction personalized to their unique needs.
  • H&R Block: www.hrblock.com Mentioned as a good help for FAFSA preparation.
  • IBR Info: www.ibrinfo.org An independent, non-profit source of information about new federal student loan payment and forgiveness programs.
  • iTunes U: www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/ Brings together video and audio material from colleges, universities and cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum.
  • Knewton: www.knewton.com Test prep online.
  • Learning Styles Online: www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory Online quizzes to determine personality traits and learning styles.
  • Lumina Foundation: www.luminafoundation.org Committed to enrolling and graduating more college students than ever before – by offering grants to colleges to help students pay for school.
  • National Center for Academic Transformation: www.thencat.org NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student-learning outcomes and reduce the cost of higher education. NCAT provides expertise and support to institutions and organizations seeking proven methods for providing more students with the education they need to prosper in today’s economy.
  • National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ Collects and analyses data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. Congress uses data to plan federal education programs, to apportion federal funds among the states, and to serve the needs of constituents.
  • National Survey of Student Engagement: http://nsse.iub.edu NSSE annually collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.
  • National Survey of Student Engagement – interactive results and analysis at USA Today: www.usatoday.com/news/education/nsse.htm Article on NSSE statistics and how to make the best out of the scores.
  • Online Learning Daily: www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm Online newsletter for online learning – described as a digital research laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education.
  • Peterson’s Education Planner: www.educationplanner.org/education_planner/discovering_article.asp?sponsor=2859&articleName=Learning_Styles_Quiz Student financial aid services, with articles, career tests, and college information.
  • Peterson’s: www.petersons.com Comprehensive guide to college, with info on test preps, financial aid, scholarships and college programs.
  • Princeton Review: www.princetonreview.com The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers. By focusing on preparation and practice, we help students improve their performance in the classroom and on standardized tests. Through our website, we help parents, teachers, students and schools navigate the complexities of school admissions.
  • Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org A major player in the world of online learning resources.

NON-TRADITIONAL EDUCATION —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Advantage Program (So. New Hampshire University): www.snhu.edu/7212.asp SNHU Advantage is for students who wish to save on tuition or who do not wish to attend a traditional, full-time undergraduate day program. Students earn an associate degree in liberal arts in two years, then can decide to continue working toward a bachelor’s degree, either at the main campus, at one of our centers and/or online.
  • Animation Mentor: www.animationmentor.com Learn how to be an animator in 18 months. Students work online with professional animators who work with and critique students’ projects on a one-on-one basis.
  • Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA): www.artcenter.edu Leading art and design school in So. California.
  • Berlitz: www.berlitz.com A language and cultural learning site that offers classes both in person and online throughout the world.
  • Big Picture Learning (charter high schools): www.bigpicture.org Schools that put the focus on learning and the students’ abilities, achievements and behaviors. Populated by predominately minority and lower class students, these schools have high graduation rates.
  • Bridgepoint Education: www.bridgepointeducation.com Bridgepoint Education was founded on the principle that those who are academically prepared deserve access to an affordable higher education without sacrificing quality, transferability of credits, accessibility and academic standards. A leading provider of postsecondary education services, Bridgepoint Education is dedicated to those seeking flexible, high-quality choices in higher education.
  • California Institute of Integral Studies: www.ciis.edu Has a unique bachelor’s degree completion program for adults who have the equivalent of two years of college. It’s an interdisciplinary degree that happens in small groups for a valuable liberal arts experience.
  • College Unbound: www.collegeunbound.org Launched by Big Picture Learning, College Bound is a program designed to harness the goals and passion of first-generation college students to enhance their college and professional work success.
  • Deep Springs College: www.deepsprings.edu Deep Springs is an all-male liberal arts college located on a cattle-ranch and alfalfa farm in California’s High Desert. Electrical pioneer L.L. Nunn founded the school in 1917 on the three pillars of academics, labor, and self-governance in order to help young men prepare themselves for lives of service to humanity. The school’s 26 students, along with its staff and faculty, form a close community engaged in this intense project. Deep Springs operates on the belief that manual labor and political deliberation are integral parts of a comprehensive liberal arts education. Each student attends for two years and receives a full scholarship valued at over $50,000 per year. Afterwards, most complete their degrees at the world’s most prestigious four-year institutions.
  • Foothill–De Anza Community College District: www.fhda.edu Community College with more than 40 thousand students a semester.
  • Gen-1 Theme House (Univ. of Cincinnati): www.uc.edu/cechpass/gen1/ An off-campus residence designed to provide its residents with a safe, orderly and highly structured environment in which to live, learn and work. Their primary mission is to provide first-year, first-generation students with the support needed to make a successful transition from high school to college.
  • Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence Program: www.imageworks.com/jointheteam/academicresources.php Imageworks collaborates with dozens of schools to give those who want a career in the digital arts the education needed to actually get a job.
  • Institute for Integrative Nutrition: www.integrativenutrition.com Trains people to become holistic health advisors.
  • University of Phoenix: www.phoenix.edu A part of the largest publicly traded higher education company (Apollo Group) UOPX is a for profit university made for working adults.
  • Yoga Alliance: www.yogaalliance.org Offers teacher certification and support services nationwide.

CAREER PLANNING —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB): www.asvabprogram.com THE ASVAB CAREER EXPLORATION PROGRAM is a career planning and exploration program that combines a multiple-aptitude test with an interest self-assessment and a wide range of career exploration tools. The ASVAB was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense with input from a panel of career development experts and designed to encourage students to increase their level of self-knowledge and to understand how that information could be linked to civilian and military occupational characteristics.
  • Brazen Careerist: www.brazencareerist.com Brazen Careerist is a social network for Generation Y professionals. You come here to build a network of your peers, find jobs, and be recognized for your ideas.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: www.bls.gov/OCO/ For hundreds of different types of jobs – such as teacher, lawyer and nurse – the OOH tell you the training and education needed, earnings, job prospects, what workers do on the job and working conditions.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics, “What Do You Like?”: www.bls.gov/k12/ This site helps people match doing what they love with a career. If you like doing activity X, here is a list of jobs that may interest you, and here’s what each one is about.
  • Career Advice and Guide for Job Searches (US News & World Report): www.usnews.com/money/careers/ News articles and information about today’s job market.
  • Career Builder: www.careerbuilder.com Search engine for jobs and careers.
  • Career Explorer: www.careerexplorer.net/aptitude.asp Has a career aptitude test to help you find the job that’s right for you.
  • The Career Key: www.careerkey.org A career-key test that helps pinpoint suitable careers, college majors and training programs and also includes a What’s Your Test Score Mean booklet; it takes about 15 minutes and costs $9.95.
  • CBcampus.com (Career Rookie): www.careerrookie.com A place to find internships, part-time and entry level jobs.
  • Koda: www.koda.us A social community connecting young professionals with hiring managers from Fortune 500 companies to non-profits and start-ups.
  • The Jung Career Indicator: www.humanmetrics.com/vocation/JCI.asp Personality tests designed to match people with fitting careers.
  • Monster: www.monster.com
  • Personality Test Center: www.personalitytest.net Personality tests to help you determine your likes and dislikes, fitting career choices, etc.
  • Studentjobs.gov: www.studentjobs.gov Helps you find entry-level job opportunities with the federal government.
  • Vault: www.vault.com Web site has information about various companies, industries and professions, as well as sample resumes and cover letters. Basic membership, free of charge, allows one to receive industry newsletters and job alerts, to apply to jobs online and to download the four most popular Vault career guides.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS —> Return to Education Category Index

  • 3rd Ward (Brooklyn, NY): www.3rdward.com 3rd Ward is a member-based art and design center for creative professionals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They provide resources, opportunities and a dynamic-creative network to members and the community. Their space houses four gorgeous photo studios, a professional wood & metal shop, a fully loaded digital media lab, shared & private workspace and a large selection of interdisciplinary art classes.
  • Boston Skillshare: www.bostonskillshare.org The Boston Skillshare is an annual weekend event organized by the volunteer Boston Skillshare Organizing Collective, who seek to create a temporary space for sharing practical skills to live more happy, creative, and sustainable lives. They believe learning is plentiful, everywhere, and need not come with price tags or expert degrees. Everyone is a teacher and a student.
  • CommuniTeach: http://communiteach.com/ CommuniTeach helps you helps you share your skills and learn new ones from your neighbors, in person. And it’s free.
  • Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School: www.drsketchy.com Regular gathering of artists at a bar drawing a live model. There are chapters worldwide.
  • Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop: www.sackettworkshop.com An NYC writers’ workshop similar to an MFA program, but 1/10th the price.
  • Transition Towns: www.transitiontowns.org A small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change? Their goal is to develop local economies and come together to learn skills like composting, conflict resolution and bicycle repair.

 

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Americorps: www.americorps.gov A national community service organization to meet the needs of our country’s education, public safety, health, and environment. Created under President Clinton in 1993. Think the Peace Corps for the USA.
  • Peace Corps: www.peacecorps.gov
  • Public Allies: www.publicallies.org An Americorp-funded nonprofit that identifies young people with “passion” and leadership potential and places them in 10-month apprenticeships with nonprofits in their own communities. They work four days a week, earning a $15,000 stipend plus benefits, and spend the fifth day together doing training based on a simple idea.
  • Students Abroad: http://studentsabroad.state.gov The state department’s Web site providing resources for college students hoping to travel internationally, including safety tips, travel alerts, the location of embassies and how to apply for passports and visas.

NOTABLE NON-PROFITS —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Global Citizen Year: http://globalcitizenyear.org Global Citizen Year is a non-profit organization building a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college, working as apprentices in Asia, Africa and Latin America. GCY partners with high schools and colleges in the US and NGOs around the world, providing intensive training and support to the Fellows.
  • Idealist: www.idealist.org A great site for jobs and volunteer work.
  • Internet Archive: www.archive.org A non-profit digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts – video, audio, texts and live music. Find photos of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and an image of the original manuscript of the Gettysburg Address.
  • TED: www.ted.com A small but excellent collection of short video lectures by scientists, authors, artists, political figures and more.
  • The Urban Assembly: www.urbanassembly.org A non-profit organization that manages a community of small NYC public schools dedicated to preparing students from under-resourced neighborhoods for success in college. The Assembly has grown from 4 high schools in 2003 to 21 middle and high schools in 2010, many of which are located in the most underserved areas of The Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Their schools serve more than 8,100 students.
  • WorldTeach: www.worldteach.org WorldTeach is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded by a group of Harvard students in 1986 in response to the need for educational assistance in developing countries. WorldTeach partners with governments and other organizations in developing countries to provide volunteer teachers to meet local needs and promote responsible global citizenship.

NOTEWORTHY BLOGS —> Return to Education Category Index

  • The 4-Hour Workweek (Tim Ferris): www.fourhourworkweek.com The blog for Tim Ferriss, author of the book, The 4-Hour Workweek – the blueprint to lifestyle design.
  • Aiken, Sean – “One Week Job” blog: www.oneweekjob.com Follow Sean Aiken on his journey across North America, as he worked 52 jobs in 52 weeks.
  • Blue Collar and Proud of It: www.bluecollarandproudofit.com College isn’t for everyone. This site encourages those who know college isn’t for them to find a trade and work. More important, be proud of your work and don’t let society tell  you that success comes from college. Success comes from drive and hard work.
  • Buchanan, Pippa – “Fighting Tiger” blog: www.battlecat.net An Australian living in Germany, Pippa is working on a master’s degree through open education and documenting her travels and newfound knowledge.
  • Davison, Aimee, “One Hundred Jobs” blog: http://onehundredjobs.blogspot.com Aimee Davison is doing 100 jobs for $100 (each) – this is her story.
  • Doctorow, Cory – “Cory Doctorow’s Craphound.com” blog: www.craphound.com Science-fiction writer who came up with the “whuffie” idea.
  • Seddiqui, Daniel – “Living The Map” blog: www.livingthemap.com Daniel is working 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.
  • The Toaster Project: www.thetoasterproject.org Diary of a man building a toaster from scratch.

 

BUSINESS AND TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES —> Return to Education Category Index

  • Etsy: www.etsy.com Buy, sell and live handmade. Etsy enables people to make a living making things and to reconnect makers with buyers.
  • Make Magazine: www.makezine.com Lists events in cities across the country helping people make a business from their craft.
  • ReadyMade Magazine: www.readymade.com Lists events in cities across the country helping people make a business from their craft.
  • South by Southwest Interactive: http://sxsw.com/interactive SXSW® Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the incredible new SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.
  • STA Travel: www.statravel.com Discount travel for students and teachers.
  • Transitions Abroad: www.transitionsabroad.com Online magazine aimed at expats connecting you to all types of job opportunities – from teaching English to working on a farm.

WORK COLLEGES —> Return to Education Category Index

Work Colleges Consortium: www.workcolleges.org A group of Colleges offering an innovative concept in higher education–purposefully integrating a college education with valuable work experience and service to others. The list of work colleges are as follows:

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