An experiment that began 10 years ago with children living in slums in India being given computers for education has brought about surprising results, according to the BBC. The computers were installed as holes in the wall, much in the way people would expect to find a cashpoint, and children quickly learned to teach themselves [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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The Open Courseware Movement Offers Free Education Online
Not everyone takes a college class just for the credit toward their degree, there are actually a lot of people who love taking classes just to learn something new, because they are bored, or because they wish to prepare themselves a little better for future classes. Among these people there are those with no money [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Computer Trainer
Stanford School of Engineering started their Stanford Engineering Everywhere program which provides full computer science courses on a newly created website. This is not only useful to computer trainers but everyone who is interested in computer science in general. The available courses are divided into three categories which are Introduction to Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence [...]
Discover more places to learn everything tech
Having a strong will and motivation, it’s amazing how much one can learn from tutoring resources shared by both amateur and professional contributors on the web, be it traditional tutorials enriched with illustrations or now thanks to broader bandwidths highly popular screencasts appearing all over the web. Sometimes it is however quite demanding to find [...]
Another round-up for English (not only) learning freaks
Hardly anybody does without English nowadays, especially when dealing with tech stuff, and it’s therefore quite a good idea to at least keep it up or possibly even elevate your current language skills if you’re not lucky enough to be a native English speaker. While some ways of learning the language may be obsolete and [...]