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Welcome to the University on 11th and 11th

 

The web is a vast and ever-expanding resource of free online classes, texts and courses. The University on 11th will be featuring some of the best of these resources and organizing them to make them easily accessible to you. The University is divided into 3 sections.

 

 

  1. The University Center features online library and learning resources of the great international universities and centers of learning. Harvard, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and many others offer free online courses and access to extensive library collections. The web puts this all the great centers of learning in your reach. We will be helping to organize these vast resources to make them easy to find and access.
  2. The Subject Center allows you to search by specific topics and courses
  3. The Resource Center features sites on the web that help you to organize your search for information

    Please email us with your suggestions and comments. If you have any specific questions about your own learning needs, our online librarians will try to help to find the answers. We will answer as many questions as we are able, but please be patient. The University has just begun.
California at Irvine,University of
UCI does not offer a vast quantity of courses, but of what it does offer all are very interesting. They offer California Subject Examination for Teachers, Business courses, Spa Operations and courses on White Collar Crime. They also offer courses in both Spanish and Portuguese. One of the most important aspects of their OCW program is the inclusion of High School Advanced Placement courses, to ready students for college. No other University does that.
Carnegie Mellon University
The Open Learning Initiative, hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University, has several courses to offer, as well as the ability to teach courses. Take everything from Statistics and Economics to French and Logic. This site offers "intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback" to help you learn.
Duke Law Lectures
While not offering courses, Duke University offers online lectures from its Law program for free. Spanning the breadth of current law topics these days, from music copyrights to creative commons and author rights, these lectures are recorded by Duke's best law professors.
Gresham College
While not offering courses, this London based college offers lectures from its eight professors such as "The Stigma of Mental Illness: Inevitable or Unjustifiable" or "The Fall of the Third Reich: 1944-1945".
Harvard Extension School
Harvard offers individual lectures in many of its courses. Take Computer Science courses from Professor Malan or listen to the first lectures of many of their online courses. If you are looking to take classes other than Computer Science, tuition must be paid.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
An extensive site of Open Course Ware on the health and medical sciences. Read from materials on HIV/Aids, mental health, global health or population science.
MIT OpenCourseware:
The initiator of the Open Course movement, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has amassed over 1800 courses on their website ranging from Comparative Media Studies and introductions to Biology to Philosophy and Aeronautics.
Notre Dame,University of
The University of Notre Dame offers a variety of courses in overlooked areas. Take a course in Peace Studies or get ready for the college experience with their online course "Making the Academic Adjustment". Every department is covered from Anthropology to Physics and beyond with a focus on the Humanities.
Tufts University Open Course Ware
Tufts offers courses in medicine, veterinary medicine, nutrition, dentistry, as well as the arts.
United Nations University
The United Nations University specializes in three advanced fields headed by their three institutes: The International Instituted for Software Technology; The International Network on Water, Environment and Health; and the Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology.
Utah State University Open Course Ware
Utah State University states ""In the tradition of land grant universities, Utah State University OpenCourseWare assures that no individual who is prepared and who desires the opportunity to advance his or her education is turned away." They have a large selection of open courses focusing mainly on the sciences but with a great collection of Education resources.
University of Washington
While only offering 11 online courses, the University of Washington does pick interesting ones to offer. Spotlights include: Heroic Fantasy: Tolkien; Shakespeare's Comedies; The American Revolution; Greek Mythology; Energy Diet and Weight and HTML Basics.
Yale Open Courses
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education

Subjects

Subject Center

Information at the Subject Center is organized by course topics. Whether arts, languages,sciences, business or hobbies,we hope to make this a center for you to fulfill all of your online learning needs.

 

 

 

Anthropology

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Utah State Uni.

Architecture

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Biology

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Yale Course

CommUni.cations

MIT Course Ware

Chemistry

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Computer Science

Harvard Computer Science

Dr. David Malan of Harvard offers an comprehensive and entertaining series of basic computing lectures covering topics from hardware, the Internet, web design programming and more.

Harvard Extension College

Harvard Extension Lectures

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Washington, Uni. of

Creative Writing

MIT Course Ware

Cultural Studies

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Economics

California, Uni. of

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

UC Irvine

UC Irvine

United Nations Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

Education

California, Uni. of

California, Uni. of

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Engineering

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

Environmental Science

Tuffs Course Ware

United Nations Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Engineering

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

Environmental Science

Tuffs Course Ware

United Nations Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Gender Studies

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

History

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Utah State Uni.

Utah State Uni.

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Yale Courses

Yale Courses

Humanities

UC Irvine

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Languages

Carnegie Mellon

Utah State Uni.

Law

Duke Law Study

UC Irvine

Literature

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Utah State Uni.

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Yale Courses

Mathematics

Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Medical and Health

JHBS of Public Health

MIT Course Ware

Tuffs Course Ware

Tuffs Course Ware

Tuffs Course Ware

UC Irvine

UC Irvine

Music

Berklee Shares

MIT Course Ware

Washington, Uni. of

Philosophy

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

 

Physics

California, Uni. of - Irvine

Carnegie Mellon

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

Yale Courses

Psychology

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Yale Courses

Political Science

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Tuffs Course Ware

United Nations Uni.

Yale Courses

Religion

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Yale Courses

Sociology

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Theater

MIT Course Ware

Utah State Uni.

Other

California, Uni. of

California, Uni. of

Gresham College

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

MIT Course Ware

Notre Dame, Uni. of

Washington, Uni. of

Resources

 

Resource Center

The Resource Center features search engines and sites that make your searching easier and more efficient.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AcademicInfo is an independent online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students. AcademicInfo also features subject guides with information about distance education and online degree options, as well as admissions test preparation resources (SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, USMLE, TOEFL).

 

 

 

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With some of the most eclectic and interesting archives out there, the Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives has provided a very valuable resource. A wonderful collection of broadsides, posters and pamphlets that highlight Lincoln in the American consciousness is available as well as a collection of Napoleonic satires. Interesting exhibits on African American Sheet Music, World War I Sheet Music and Yiddish sheet music are a must for any music lover.

In the Faculty and Student Projects section you can find a digital collection focusing on Japanese, Brown University and slavery histories. Of note is the compilation of the 115 years of the Brown Daily Herald, early illustrations of Don Quixote, a visual history of Commander Perry visiting Japan and the Underground Rhode Island projects.

 

 

 

 

Yale, founded in 1701 in New Haven, CT, has opened its digital archives to the public. Check out the Economic Growth Center library for stats on the growth of Mexico or Nigeria then make sure to view the Internet Mission Photography Archive for a repository of photographs taken by missionaries between 1850 and World War II. The Avalon project on historical law documents is a site to see accompanied by the Curiae project, United States Supreme Court records and briefs.

 

 

 

 

Columbia University opens its digital collections to the public with exhibitions on John Jay and his correspondences, memos and diaries, as well as oral history interviews of notable New Yorkers such as Mamie Clark and Edward Koch. Make sure to hit the “Online xhibitions” link for more resources. While not heavy on open access, Columbia provides specific resources for specific needs.

 

 

 

 

The Libraries are wonderful gathering places to pursue scholarly research, to learn about and use information technology, to write, to study, and to draw on our rich collection of print and electronic resources. At your disposal is a fully integrated research library. Columbia’s Libraries, with 9.5 million volumes, 117,264 current serials, and an extensive collection of electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, and other nonprint formats, ranks as one of the top ten academic library systems in the nation.

 

 

 

 

Harvard, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, now opens its library of digital collections from Nuremberg trial documents to 500,000 pages of historical documentation focusing on the role of women in the United States economy. Harvard's collections are primarily historical. The Open Collections Program is a great resource for historical documents.

 

 

 

 

The Ostrow Library is designed to meet the needs of the University's faculty and students, as well as scholars conducting research in all fields of Jewish culture and civilization. With approximately 100,000 volumes, the library's collections have grown consistently through endowments, gifts of major private collections and an ongoing acquisition program. Its holdings include:

 

 

 

 

Indiana University offers an extensive array of digital collections. Do not miss the Digital Library of the Commons, a must have resource for anyone interested in Political Theory, or the Film Literature Index if you are attempting to track down any scholarly work concerning film. One very interesting open access resource is the Indiana Magazine of History, containing 80+ years of peer reviewed articles on Indiana and Mid Western history.

 

 

 

 

The JSU Houston Cole Library offers a focus on history of the Jacksonville State University as well as history of Alabama as a whole.

The Oral History Collection, a project proposed by a faculty member to her students, comprises 250 interviews with individuals who lived through pivotal moments in U.S. History. Interviewees from the Great Depression, World War II and the Cuban Missile Crisis provide a colorful panorama of oral history.

 

 

 

 

Michigan State University directly offers free journals and historical documents in pdf format on this website. Sort through Fitzgerald's tales of the Jazz Age, Aesop's fables, or the account of the captives of the Amistad. Make sure to browse the great collections on American Radicalism, everyone is included from Sacco and Vanzetti and the Ku Klux Klan to the Black Panthers and the Hollywood Ten.

 

 

 

 

The Ohio University collection offers several exhibits in which one could lose themselves. Their exhibit “Boom and Bust in the Hocking Valley Coal Fields: Landscapes of Industrial Settlement” was the initial start which led to a variety of digital archives. 

If you are a dance enthusiast make sure to check out the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, Modern Dancers exhibit which illustrates over 80 years of modern dance as well as chronicling the careers of two modern dance icons. Also of extreme importance is the Cornelius Ryan collection of World War II papers. The famed journalist, author of The Longest Day, The Last Battle, and A Bridge Too Far, has his papers up on exhibit here, for any interested in World War II, journalism or literature.

 

 

 

 

The Syracuse University Digital Library offers an array of digital collections from Street and Smith Dime Novel covers “where the greatest illustrators in the country were professionally born” to the recordings of World War II songs, arranged by title and by theme. 

The collections are primarily focused on local New York history, including the intriguing plate glass collection of the Erie Railroad stretching from New Jersey through Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio in the first decades of the 20th century and the absolute oddities included in The Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs, you will not be able to tear your eyes away from it.