Blog on University Education

Online courses

There are already multiple sources for attending courses online. Here is an incomplete list.

• Διαδικτυακά μαθήματα Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.
• youtube EDU (video classes)
• Coursera, coordinated by Stanford University
• edX
• Open Courseware, MIT courses online
• Udacity
• iversity
• KhanAcademy
• 700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Resourses

• Imaginary.org, Open Mathematics.
• OpenCourseWare Consortium, open educational content
• Online Math Tests (Calculus), Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Millenium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge
• Mathematics Demonstrations, Interactive demonstrations in Maths, Physics, etc
• Math Open Reference, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, etc
• Materials Science, Cambridge, a library of short courses on topics in Materials Science.
• Math24.net, lectures and problems on Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations.

Articles on online education

Following the news on online courses and education.

• Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?, The Guardian, 11/11/2012.
• Online education race heats up, Inc., 16/11/2012
• Course offerings online, Wall Street Journal, 12/4/2012

Articles, Popular science

Various articles in newspapers and on the internet related to higher education.

• Mathematical Modelling with Marcus du Sautoy, BBC Radio 4, 11/2/2013.
• Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash, BBC, 28/4/2012
• Was soll ich studieren? Spiegel, 9/10/2012.
• Mit Mathe nicht gerechnet - Jeder dritte Physikstudent gibt in den ersten Semestern auf (die Zeit)
• Αλλαγή των εκπαιδευτικών προτύπων (video)
• Studenten-Mails an ihre Dozenten, Spiegel, 4//12/2012.

• BlueDot, ιστορίες από τον πλανήτη Γη.

Lecture notes, Books

A very short list on books and lecture notes available on the internet (to be expanded in the future…)

• Maths course material, University of Oxford.