Continue Your Distance Education Online With Free Online Courses
If you know where to look there is a virtual smorgasbord of free online education available on the internet.
MIT OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu) is a web based treasure trove of syllabuses, readings, handouts, assignments, tests, and even some video lectures.
Of course there are many so-called 'free' offers that are merely designed to lure you into a future paying trap but now over five hundred MIT courses in thirty-three disciplines are available for your browsing pleasure. All of them are free! MIT is hoping to convince other schools to join and openly exchange ideas and information all with the ultimate goal of helping mankind.
Free web-based educational opportunities are steadily expanding mostly from institutions like museums and the educational television networks.
The Smithsonian Institute for example now offers (on its main site: www.si.edu) smithsonianeducation.org. Here teachers can pick out a lesson plan like "Under the Spell of Spiders" and tutorials like IdeaLabs can be tested by kids. You can continue your education online at virtually any age!
* How Will Your Online Education Course Be Structured?
This will vary between the different educational institutions but in general, after your enrolment you will be sent all the introductory information you require for example:
* The structure and contents of the course.
* Exam dates.
* Study guides (Cd-Rom, audio or video/DVD etc.).
* The names and contact information of your online lecturers.
* Details of any online study groups active online.
* Your first course materials and assignments that you must complete.
* Rules and Regulations for education online study, for example permissible resources and method of assignment submission.
* Details of any practical or experiential training you are required to do.
