Online Learning
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Click On: Free College Courses and Lectures
A wealth of resources for learning almost any topic. The list includes audio podcasts, online video courses as well as sources for free course materials.
Click On: Online Tutorials
Learn new skills and techniques with these lessons.
Coursera
Learn from the best! Courses from faculty at Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Michigan, and Penn.
GCF LearnFree.org
Online computer, technology, and life skills training. Self-paced as well as instructor-led online classes. Free registration is required.
Illinois Virtual Campus
A guide to over 4,500 online courses offered by Illinois colleges and universities.
Learning Space
The Open University in the U.K. website with dozens of online courses categorized into disciplines.
Library 2.0
Staff-created introduction to Web 2.0 technologies for everyone. Learn how to use blogs, Twitter, RSS and feed readers, social networking and Facebook, Flickr and photo sharing, YouTube and Hulu, social bookmarking, wikis, music, and Good Reads.
Mango Languages
Learn a language using Mango online. Choose from 22 different languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Russian. Foreign speakers can use the ESL lessons from a specific language background to help learn English. Just click on “Start Learning” on Mango’s home page.
Net–Tips: Using Help Feature for Microsoft® Products
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Courses from over 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations including MIT, Notre Dame, and the University of California. Free registration is required.
Tutorials created by DGPL Staff
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Illinois Clicks!
Sites recommended by Illinois librarians.
ipl2
Internet Public Library and the Librarians’ Internet Index have merged to create a collection of high quality Internet resources, selected by ipl2 staff for their usefulness in providing accurate, factual information on a particular topic or topics.
Webrary
Morton Grove Public Library's links organized by subject. |
