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(Please send me comments if you take a course you particularly like.  meg.tufano@synaptiqplus.com)

    
        


        Open Course Library - http://opencourselibrary.org/
        Uses Google Apps!  So you can download, remix, teach.  Yay!  ~Meg

        coursera.org
       [From their website] Take the world's best courses, online, for free.  There is a lot of controversy about the format of these courses and the lack of personal attention from a teacher.  However, they appear to be swarming the airwaves!  ~Meg  (2013)


         edX.org
        [From their website] EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions, the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. Anant Agarwal, former Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, serves as the first president of edX. EdX's goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages, means, and nations, and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

      [From their website] Transfer thinkers into creators.


       [From their website] Learn almost anything for free.

                                   
      Metacognition:  Critical Thinking - http://www.pearsonassessments.com/hai/images/tmrs/CriticalThinkingReviewFINAL.pdf
        A PDF on the subject (free, downloadable).  Worth the time~Meg

     Metacognition/Critical Thinking Blog - http://p251.blogspot.com/2012/10/metacognitioncritical-thinking-blog_5373.html

       udacity.com
      [From their website]  Learn. Think. Do.  Invent your future through free interactive college classes.



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