Education Links

Free educational videos, lectures, podcasts, notes, courses, etc

The aim of this section is to provide pointers to a wide range of free, on-line, self-study material

• Broadcasters

  High production values and a wide demographic target make much of this material almost effortless

  • The BBC iPlayer list of factual programs Recently aired programs can be re-played on-line in the UK
  • Radio 4 BBC talk radio with many documentaries and history and science programs
  • SBS Documentaries (Australian TV)
  • PBS Nova (American TV)
  • PBS Science & Nature
  • National Geographic Video Player
  • TVO podcasts
  
  

• Starter

  Introductory level information much of which is aimed at children

  • The Royal Institution has an on-line archive of science 'Christmas Lectures' for children (shown on British television) going back to 1962
  • The BBC Bitesize resources to help children revise for GCSE exams (Age 16)
  • Educational materials on the NASA web site including videos, lectures, podcasts and an image library that's out of this world
  • ESA has multilingual educational material both on-line and in books/cd-roms.
  • Secondary Links at the Open Educational Resources web site
  
  

• Advanced

  'Leading edge' information most of which is university level and most of which is presented by the people making the discoveries.

  • Many universities have contributed individual lectures and full courses to Archive.org
  • Teaching Resources from CERN
  • Postsecondary education on the NASA web site
  • ESA has multilingual educational material both on-line and in books/cd-roms. It has also made available Technical Documents and Data Sets
  • Royal Society TV archive of webcasts
  • The Steeple archive of higher education podcasts from Cambridge, Oxford and the Open University
  • Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT
  • Video's of significant public events at MIT including many lectures
  • Post-secondary Links at the Open Educational Resources web site
  • Free learning resources from The Open University
  • Academi Earth has thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
  • Video Lectures given at the TED conference
  
  

• Computing

  • The Computer & Technology films at Archive.org
  • The Computer & Technology audio recordings (Radio Programs, lectures, conferences, etc) at Archive.org
  • Computing lectures at Archive.org
  • Computing Education Links at the Open Educational Recources web site
  • Computer Science lectures at Academi Earth
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT
  
  

• Repositories

  • The Moving Image Archive at Archive.org allows many educational films to be downloaded
  • Over a million e-texts at Archive.org
  • BBC archive sorted by theme
  • MEDLINE allows you to search the abstracts of medical journals
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • The Open Science Directory is a huge directory of online technical journals many of which can be accessed for free
  • Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
  
  

• Misc

  • Wikipedia in an ever growing Open Source encyclopedia
  • Search the text in books from Google
  • Search scholarly literature from Google
  • Video Search from Google (include words like: Documentary, Science, Lecture, Computing, etc )
  • Bad Science how, and where, good science is turned bad.
  
  

† some of the BBC's content may not be available outside the UK