Academic Earth – mimoskolu.cz
So it’s the new year, and many among us are considering new learning and continuing education opportunities! And as we’re dreaming about continuing, or even starting, our graduate or post-graduate education, we can’t help but longingly sigh at the thought of all these great people who went to prestigious Ivy league colleges, such as Harvard, MIT, Yale or Stanford… How great it must be to learn from the best institutions, to be able to say “I completed this course at Harvard, you know…”…and, yes…how expensive (unless you’re insanely smart, fortunate, at the right time at the right place and got yourself a free ride, it happens!). Otherwise, you may as well keep on sighing, right? Wrong…
I learnt about the Academic Earth a while back while listening to some podcast, and never thought much of it until I needed some serious managerial accounting refreshing course for an upcoming work project I had no idea how in the world I was going to pull off…And then I clicked on the Academic Earth link I had thankfully saved in my favorites, and…found a Financial and Managerial Accounting course from the Massachussets Institute of Technology! Yup, that one, MIT! As I kept clicking, I also uncovered a Leadership course from Harvard, an Economics course from Cornell University, an African-American history course from Yale, an Introduction to Computer Networks course from Stanford University, and these are just the tip of the iceberg…
Academic Earth was created back in 2009, by Richard Ludlow and co-founders Chris Bruner and Liam Pisan. With over 750 free online college courses from Ivy League and prestigious institutions of higher learning, it offers countless opportunities to learn, share, debate from the best of the best! I mean, these are top-rated courses from top-rated Ivy League institutions that you can take advantage of FOR FREE! While you may not get credit for these courses, you can get an even greater credit, which is that of learning from the best! I’ve taken a couple of courses from Academic Earth, and intend on continuing to do so, as I can proudly say that “I took this course from Harvard…for free!”…
There are unending sources of online learning these days, and as corporate sisters, professionals, and continuous learners, we should take advantage of these to further ourselves. Someone once said that “Education is the only thing that no one can take away from you”, and they could not be more on point…
Check out Academic Earth and let us know what you think!
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