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December 18, 2013
Best Audio Books of 2013
We’ve finally finished our Best of 2013 Audio Books List. At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the best new and most popular audio book releases from 2013. You can check out all of our new releases here:
Popular 2013 Audiobook New Releases
All the audio books on our list are available on Audio Download. To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of the best new releases from 2013 into categories. We’ve picked a selection of audio books from our most popular categories. Here is a selection of great audio book gifts from the categories of Self Development, Business, and Religion & Spirituality:
Best Self Development Audio Books of 2013:
1. Hero by Rhonda Byrne (author of The Secret)
2. Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence by Debbie Ford, Foreword by Wayne Dyer
3. The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting by Brene Brown
4. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
5. What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul by Deepak Chopra
6. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
7. Break Out!: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life by Joel Osteen
8. When Pain is the Doorway by Pema Chodron
9. Sometimes You Win – Sometimes You Learn by John C. Maxwell
10. Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson
Best Business Audio Book of 2013:
1. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
2. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
3. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Louder Than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence by Joe Navarro
5. Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets by Jim Rogers
Religion & Spirituality Audio Book Gifts:
1. The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin, Narrated by Meryl Streep
2. Seeking Heaven: Sound Journeys into the Beyond by Eben Alexander
3. Body and Mind Are One: A Training in Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
4. God Is Not Mad at You by Joyce Meyer
5. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Best of Biographies, A&E, and Literature
Do you enjoy listening to literature or learning about the life of a renowned individual. We’ve made our selections for the Best of Biographies, A&E, and Literature on Audio Book in 2013.
Best Biographies of 2013:
1.I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
2. My Brief History by Stephen Hawking
3. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
4. Salinger by David Shields & Shane Salerno
5. Wilson by A. Scott Berg
Best Arts & Entertainment Audio Books of 2013:
1. Si-cology 1 by Si Robertson
2. Attempting Normal by Marc Maron
3. Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show by David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, & Brian Posehn
4. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
5. Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
Best Literature Audio Books of 2013:
1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
3. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
4. Ocean At The End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
5. Tenth of December written and read by George Saunders
Best of History, Politics, & Science
If you love nonfiction we’ve got some of the best history, politics, & science audio books released in the past year. Browse this selection of the Best of History, Politics, & Science Audio Books of 2013.
Best History Audio Books of 2013:
1. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
3. Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek
4. The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch
5. The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester
Best Political Audio Books of 2013:
1. Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked by Chris Matthews
2. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh
3. The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies by Jonathan Alter
4. The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
5. Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas by Sarah Palin
Best Science Audio Books of 2013:
1. The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman
2. An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
3. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
4. Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance by Majid Fotuhi
5. Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson
December 11, 2013
Free Nelson Mandela Documentary
After the passing of Nelson Mandela last week, we’ve put together this tribute page of Nelson Mandela speeches, interviews, documentaries, and audio books:
If you don’t know about Nelson Mandela’s amazing life story, we highly recommend today’s free resource:
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
This 2-hour PBS FRONTLINE documentary covers Nelson Mandela’s amazing life story, from his radical political activism in Johannesburg as a youth to his over 20-year imprisonment, and then to his remarkable rise as the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 in which he presided over the dismantling of apartheid. This documentary features excellent footage from all periods in Mandela’s life along with interviews of the people closest to him. It’s a story that must be heard to be believed. Watch this superb documentary from PBS online.
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
A few other free resources we’ll point out:
Mandela’s 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Over 30 Nelson Mandela Videos on C-SPAN
An Hour-Long Interview With Nelson Mandela on Charlie Rose
November 29, 2013
LearnOutLoud YouTube Playlists
We’ve been adding a lot of videos to YouTube of audio recordings we’ve made in the past. Now we’ve neatly organized them into playlists so you can listen to them according to subject matter.
The first playlist we offered was our “Art History” playlist which covers over 20 of the greatest paintings from the Renaissance to 19th century Art. You can view the paintings and learn about them on this playlist:
We’ve also created a playlist of motivational videos. This is a list of some of the best motivational videos on YouTube pulled from our list of the “Top 100 Free Motivational Speeches, Lectures, & Podcasts”:
Our next playlist features 10 free audio books published by LearnOutLoud.com. The are full audio books which you can listen to in their entirety:
Free Audio Books
The rest of the playlists are pretty much related to what they are called, and here they are:
Philosophy Classics – Excerpts from classics of Western philosophy.
Greek Gods – Descriptions of all the major Ancient Greek gods.
Spiritual Classics – Excerpts from key texts from a wide range of religious traditions throughout human history.
Great Speeches – Playlist is devoted to the great thinkers, statesman, and other public orators that have graced us throughout history with their words.
Great Poetry – A collection of recorded, classic poems.
Biographies – A collection of brief biographical sketches of notable people throughout history.
Founding Documents of the United States of America – An audio collection of Founding Documents and speeches that trace the origins of the United States of America.
Enjoy these educational YouTube playlists of free videos.
October 16, 2013
300 New Popular Podcasts in Our Podcast Directory
We have just added 300 new popular podcasts to the LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory! We searched all over the Web to find the best podcasts you can learn from that were not yet on our site. Since we started our handpicked podcast directory back in 2005, it has now grown into one of the top podcast directories on the Web. Browse all of the podcasts in our directory today:
www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory
We’ve added new podcasts from some of the top podcast providers. Here are some of the great podcast providers which we’ve added new podcasts for:
American Public Media Podcasts
15 New Sports Podcasts from ESPN
10 New Podcasts from HowStuffWorks.com
6 New Language Learning Podcasts from Innovative Language Learning
6 New Podcasts from KCRW Public Radio
15 New Podcasts from National Public Radio
10 New Podcasts from Public Radio International
7 New Quick and Dirty Tips Podcasts
13 New Language Learning Podcasts from the Radio Lingua Network
25 City Guide Podcasts from Tourcaster.com
Beyond adding podcasts from top providers, we’ve also added many great individual podcasts to our directory. Below we’ll highlight some of the great new podcasts we’ve added. We’ll start out by pointing out that we’ve added dozens of great comedy podcasts. For those of you who want to “laugh out loud” we’ve got some fun and popular podcasts for you. Go to our comedy podcasts section and you’ll see some of the recently added podcasts you can laugh with:
50 New Popular Comedy Podcasts
Along with these great comedy podcasts, we’ve also added the following popular podcasts to our directory:
Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
Daily Hope with Rick Warren Podcast
Inside Sports Illustrated Podcast
John Maxwell: A Minute with Maxwell Podcast
Life Habits Podcast with Karel Vredenburg
Marathon Training Academy Podcast
Norman Centuries: A Norman History Podcast (from the creator of the “12 Byzantine Rulers” podcast)
Bill O’Reilly News & Interviews Podcast
Orson Welles: On The Air Podcast
Seth Godin’s Startup School Podcast
The Smart Passive Income Podcast
WNYC’s Here’s The Thing Podcast with Alec Baldwin
Enjoy these individual podcasts and browse many more in our podcast directory:
www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory
September 18, 2013
The Great Courses on Sale on Audible & iTunes, No Coupon Necessary!
We must mention the great news that The Great Courses are now available at a sale price for audio download on Audible.com! For anyone unaware, The Great Courses publish and sell lecture courses from the nation’s best university professors. They now offer over 400 courses on audio and video from a broad array of university level disciplines. Now almost all of their audio courses are available for audio download through Audible.com, and we’ve switched over our links to point to Audible.com. Not only are these courses readily available through Audible.com’s great applications for iPhone, iPad, and Android, but The Great Courses are also usually cheaper on Audible.com, especially if you have an Audible membership. Now you can get great, expansive courses for only 1 credit! And since Audible.com supplies iTunes you can also buy The Great Courses on sale on iTunes with prices almost always below $29.95 per course (and many courses for only $14.95)!
But the cheapest way to get The Great Courses is certainly through an Audible.com membership. If you don’t have a membership, you should maybe try Audible out:
AudibleListener® Gold Membership Consumer Offer
Get 50% off your first 3 months of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan and receive your free audiobook credit each month. Pay only $7.49/month for 3 months, $14.95/month thereafter.
Audible® Free Trial Consumer Offer
Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases.
And here’s a link to all of The Great Courses on iTunes:
The Great Courses on Sale on iTunes
Even if you don’t have an Audible.com membership, the prices are often cheaper for audio downloads through Audible.com. No more waiting around for that desired Great Course to go on sale or for a coupon to arrive. You can get them all on sale on Audible.com! Also you can now listen to audio samples of the courses before you buy them! Browse all The Great Courses we feature on LearnOutLoud.com right here:
Browse The Great Courses Now on Sale on Audible.com
And for some free content, we’ve also wrote a few blog posts of free videos that The Great Courses is now offering:
Free Video Lecture Samples from The Great Courses
Preview Free Video Trailers for The Great Courses
And they also feature a new podcast:
The Torch: The Great Courses Podcast
Here are some of those great courses that you can now get for 1 credit or at a sale price on Audible.com:
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
Classics of American Literature
Now The Great Courses are cheaper and more accessible than ever through Audible.com! And just in time for Back to School!
Note: We don’t currently sell these courses directly. We just link to The Great Courses and Audible.com as an affiliate.
And if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out The Great Courses Plus. You can now sign up for a free one month trial on TheGreatCoursesPlus.com. For fans of The Great Courses it’s overwhelmingly awesome. You subscribe to The Great Courses Plus, and you can then watch 300 great courses and over 6,000 video lectures as much as you want, whenever you want!
After the initial free month, the price is only $19.99/month now! A bargain considering all the great courses you get access to. And if you sign up for a full year the price breaks down to only $14.99/month. We’ve gone through their entire catalog and there are so many courses and individual lectures we want to watch. You can browse all these courses by category on their website as well:
Browse Over 300 Courses Currently Offered Through the The Great Courses Plus
We’ve updated a blog post that lays out The Great Courses Plus in more detail and lists all the current courses:
Watch 300 Great Courses on the Great Courses Plus Updated Blog Post
September 17, 2013
500 Free University Courses Online
It’s back to school time again and the amount of free courses available on audio & video is greater than it has ever been! We’ve once again scoured the internet to collect all the best free courses we could gather, and we’ve put them all in our LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection. We now have over 500 free courses on audio & video in our collection. We have them all well-organized into categories which you can browse right here:
Browse 500 Free Courses in the LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection
For your convenience we’ll also list all the great new courses we’ve added below starting with some courses we’ve added from Udemy.com.
Udemy.com is an online learning website that allows instructors to host courses. The experts that teach courses on their platform can upload video, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, audio, and offer live classes. They feature many popular and highly rated courses, that are both paid and free. Many of their top free courses come from their Faculty Project Courses featuring the “Best Professors Teaching the World”. Here are some of those great courses from Udemy.com:
Ancient Greek Religion by Robert Garland, Professor of the Classics at Colgate University
Classics of American Literature: T. S. Eliot by Victor Strandberg, Professor of English at Duke University
Elixir: A History of Water and Humans by Brian Fagan, Retired Professor of Anthropology
Energy, Economics, and the Environment by Ben Ho, Assistant Professor of Economics at Vassar College
Foundations of Business Strategy by Michael Lenox, Professor of Business at University of Virginia
Is American Democracy Broken? Perspectives and Debates by Jeb Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California
Math is Everywhere: Applications of Finite Math by Tim Chartier, Associate Professor of Mathematics – Davidson College
Poetry: What It Is, and How to Understand It by Margaret Soltan, Associate Professor of English at George Washington University
Russian Literature and Music by Professor Irwin Weil, Professor of Russian Literature and Music at Northwestern University
The US Constitution: A Biography by Robert J. Allison, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Suffolk University
Of all the universities offering free courses online now, the best courses might be coming from Yale University. Both in terms of the quality of their content and the quality of the way the courses were recorded. Yale also offers the courses on streaming video, audio download, and video download, making it optimal for audio & video learners who can watch the videos at home or listen to them on-the-go. All the courses are introductory level courses so you don’t have to worry about starting one that might be over your head. On LearnOutLoud.com we’ve embedded the courses from YouTube’s player and we link to the courses on YouTube for streaming video. We also link to the courses on the Open Yale Courses website for downloading on audio or video. We’ve created a publisher page showcasing the over 40 courses we now offer from Yale University:
Over 40 Free Courses from Yale Open Courses
A few years ago we added hundreds of courses to our site and since then Yale has added seven new courses that we feature below. The complete course lectures are up for each of these new courses. And please note: To download these courses you’ll need to click “SESSIONS” or “VIEW CLASS SESSIONS” on the Yale website:
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present by Professor Jonathan Holloway
The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change by Professor Ron Smith
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 by Professor Paul Freedman
Freshman Organic Chemistry II by Professor Michael McBride (a follow up to Freshman Organic Chemistry I)
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner by Professor Wai Chee Dimock
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature by Professor Tamar Gendler
Human Emotion by Professor June Gruber (Only on video through YouTube)
Beyond Yale we’ll go New York University. NYU has added four new courses since we checked in with them last. And here they are:
Calculus I by Professor Matthew Leingang
Cultures & Contexts: Ancient Israel by Professor Daniel Fleming
Brain and Behavior by Professor Wendy Suzuki
Public Economics and Finance by Professor Nirupama Rao
Now we’ll go up to Cambridge, Massachusetts to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT now has 50 courses they are offering through MIT OpenCourseWare. You can browse them all here:
50 Courses from MIT OpenCourseWare
We’ve added 15 recent MIT courses that we’ll list below:
The Challenge of World Poverty
Energy Decisions, Markets, Policies
Mathematics for Computer Science
MIT Calculus Revisited: Calculus of Complex Variables
MIT Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus
Philosophical Issues in Brain Science
Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full
A newcomer to the stage of free courses on video is Missouri State University. They’ve put up 13 of their courses for free on YouTube and here they are:
Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts
Literature and World of the Hebrew Bible
And now to the West Coast. The University of California-Berkeley was a pioneer in offering free courses on audio & video which they started to do in 2006 through their site webcast.berkeley.edu . We now feature over 130 of their courses on audio through iTunes and on video through YouTube! You can browse all these courses right here:
Over 130 Free Audio & Video Courses from webcast.berkeley
We’ve added a number of recent UC-Berkeley courses to our site:
Freedom of Speech and the Press
Global Poverty and Impact Evaluation
Introduction to American Studies
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
The Politics of Educational Inequality
The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World
Not far behind UC-Berkeley is UC-San Diego which now podcasts on audio (and some on video) over 100 of their courses!. You can browse all of these podcasted courses right here:
Over 100 UC San Diego Courses on Audio Podcast
We’ve added over 20 new podcasted courses from UCSD to our site:
America and the World: World War I to the Present
American Legal History to 1865
Classical & Medieval Tradition
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Evolution of the Human Brain
Modern Art and Visual Culture in 20th Century Art in China and Japan
Natural Disasters and Human Impacts
The Neuropsychological Basis of Alternate States of Consciousness
We’ll be adding more courses in the coming weeks. For now you’ve got 500 to choose from!
September 14, 2013
400+ Free University Courses Online on Coursera
The past few years have seen the explosion of MOOCs (massive open online courses). And the global leader of the MOOCs would right now seem to be Coursera.org. This fall semester they are offering over 400 free courses from over 80 partners, most of which are from respected universities. We recently blogged about their “Signature Track” courses which provide a verified certificate from the school and Coursera after you pass the course. Coursera currently features over 50 online college courses that provide a verified certificate. The “Signature Track” usually costs a little money, but you’re getting a certificate! You can browse all of the certificate courses on our blog post here:
Free Online College Courses with Certificate
The deal with Coursera is that you have to act now! Because there is no guarantee that a course you want to take is going to be there after it is initially offered. Some older courses are still up on the site but many have vanished.
We’ve put together this list of about 200 courses from American universities that you should still be able to take right now on Coursera. For these courses we are linking directly to Coursera. Due to their terms and conditions and the fleeting nature of their courses, we don’t feature pages for them on our site yet.
And if you don’t know what Coursera course to take, then you might want to check out their YouTube channel which now features 100s of course trailers that you can watch in order to help you decide:
Video Trailers for 100s of Coursera Courses on YouTube
Below we have listed the courses by university. Enroll in a free Coursera course today!
Berklee College of Music:
Introduction to Music Production
California Institute of the Arts:
Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works
Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists
Live!: A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers
Case Western Reserve University:
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Introduction to International Criminal Law
Columbia University:
Economics of Money and Banking, Part One
Financial Engineering and Risk Management
Curtis Institute of Music:
Exploring Beethovenís Piano Sonatas
From the Repertoire: Western Music History through Performance
Duke University:
21st Century American Foreign Policy
9/11 and Its Aftermath — Part I
A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Georgia Institute of Technology:
Applications in Engineering Mechanics
Computational Investing, Part I
Games without Chance: Combinatorial Game Theory
Health Informatics in the Cloud
Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
Introductory Physics I with Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University:
Care of Elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other Major Neurocognitive Disorders
Case-Based Introduction to Biostatistics
Community Change in Public Health
Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
Global Tuberculosis (TB) Clinical Management and Research
Health for All Through Primary Health Care
Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2
Saving Lives Millions at a Time: Global Disease Control Policies & Programs
The Science of Safety in Healthcare
Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data
Statistical Reasoning for Public Health: Estimation, Inference, & Interpretation
Training and Learning Programs for Volunteer Community Health Workers
Northwestern University:
Everything is the Same: Modeling Engineered Systems
Understanding Media by Understanding Google
The Ohio State University:
Calculus Two: Sequences and Series
Generation Rx: The Science Behind Prescription Drug Abuse
Pennsylvania State University:
Creativity, Innovation, and Change
Energy, the Environment, and Our Future
Epidemics – the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
Princeton University:
A History of the World since 1300
Networks Illustrated: Principles without Calculus
Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes
Rice University:
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Analytical Chemistry / Instrumental Analysis
Chemistry: Concept Development and Application
Chemistry: Concept Development and Application Part II
Using The Next Generation Science Standards for Studentsí Deeper Understanding
Rutgers University:
Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences
Stanford University:
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Optimization of Antibiotic Practices
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Practical tips to improve Asian American participation in cancer clinical trials
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
University of California, Irvine:
Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom
Foundations of Virtual Instruction
The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World
Preparation for Introductory Biology: DNA to Organisms
University of California, San Francisco:
Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA)
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Diabetes: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Opportunities
University of Colorado Boulder:
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Introduction to Power Electronics
Linear and Integer Programming
Physics 1 for Physical Science Majors
University of Florida:
Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future
Structure Standing Still: The Statics of Everyday Objects
Sustainable Agricultural Land Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Intermediate Organic Chemistry – Part 1
Introduction to Sustainability
University of Michigan:
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Understanding and Improving the US Healthcare System
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy
Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information
University of Pennsylvania:
An Introduction to Corporate Finance
An Introduction to Financial Accounting
An Introduction to Operations Management
Cardiac Arrest, Hypothermia, and Resuscitation Science
Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society
Going Out on a Limb: The Anatomy of the Upper Limb
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
University of Pittsburgh:
Accountable Talk: Conversation that Works
Clinical Terminology for International and U.S. Students
Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health
University of Rochester:
Confronting The Big Questions: Highlights of Modern Astronomy
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
University of Virginia:
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
Effective Classroom Interactions: Supporting Young Childrenís Development
Foundations of Business Strategy
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I
Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part II
The Modern World: Global History since 1760
New Models of Business in Society
Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction
University of Washington:
Building an Information Risk Management Toolkit
Computational Methods for Data Analysis
Designing and Executing Information Security Strategies
High Performance Scientific Computing
Information Security and Risk Management in Context
Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics
Introduction to Public Speaking
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Human Evolution: Past and Future
Vanderbilt University:
Data Management for Clinical Research
Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative
Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software
Wesleyan University:
The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color
Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics
Yale University:
Take a course from Coursera!
September 4, 2013
Free Online College Courses with Certificate
The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) giant Coursera currently features over 50 free online college courses that provide a verified certificate from the school and Coursera. These free certificate courses they call “Signature Track” courses. They feature lessons on video and readings from put together by professors at top universities around the globe. Sign up for one of these free certified college courses today, because for many of the courses once they have started then the ability to get a certificate ends. Here are the fall of 2013 courses along with some older courses that still provide a certificate if you take the full course.
September 2013 Certificate Courses:
Introduction to International Criminal Law
Introduction to Systematic Program Design – Part 1
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences
Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators
Foundations of Virtual Instruction
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The 1st Step in Entrepreneurship
Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations
October 2013 Certificate Courses:
The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem
What a Plant Knows (and other things you didnít know about plants)
The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators
Internet History, Technology, and Security
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
An Introduction to Operations Management
Future Certificate Courses:
Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)
Evolution: A Course for Educators
Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
Past Certificate Courses:
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach
Global Sustainable Energy: Past, Present and Future
Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story
English Common Law: Structure and Principles
Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression
Structure Standing Still: The Statics of Everyday Objects
Introduction to Music Production
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction
First Year Teaching (Elementary Grades) – Success from the Start
First Year Teaching (Secondary Grades) – Success from the Start
Caries Management by Risk Assessment (CAMBRA)
Computational Investing, Part I
Take a course and get a certificate this semester!
September 4, 2013
Preview Trailers for The Great Courses
At LearnOutLoud.com we love The Great Courses (formerly The Teaching Company). They now have a YouTube channel and they’ve created trailers for many of their Great Courses. Here’s their YouTube channel if you want to check it out:
www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatCourses
You can browse all of The Great Courses through site right here:
Browse Over 300 of The Great Courses
On the course pages for their courses on LearnOutLoud.com we’ve embedded these course trailers. They run a few minutes long and give you a good idea what the course is all about. Here are the courses we feature that have trailers:
Art and Craft of Mathematical Problem Solving
Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master Educator
Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies
Foundations of Western Civilization II
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts
How to Become a SuperStar Student
No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists
Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World
World War II: A Military and Social History
And if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out The Great Courses Plus. You can now sign up for a free one month trial on TheGreatCoursesPlus.com. For fans of The Great Courses it’s overwhelmingly awesome. You subscribe to The Great Courses Plus, and you can then watch 300 great courses and over 6,000 video lectures as much as you want, whenever you want!
After the initial free month, the price is only $19.99/month now! A bargain considering all the great courses you get access to. And if you sign up for a full year the price breaks down to only $14.99/month. We’ve gone through their entire catalog and there are so many courses and individual lectures we want to watch. You can browse all these courses by category on their website as well:
Browse Over 300 Courses Currently Offered Through the The Great Courses Plus
We’ve updated a blog post that lays out The Great Courses Plus in more detail and lists all the current courses:
Watch 300 Great Courses on the Great Courses Plus Updated Blog Post
August 14, 2013
Art History Timeline Free Videos
Take a journey through the History of Art with this free video mini-course from the Otis College of Art and Design. This course has great visual accompaniments of the works of art being discussed. It’s a free 2 hour, 27 episode video series called “Art History Time Line”. Professor Jeanne Willette takes you from the Caves to Romanticism in this video course. Each episode lasts about 5 minutes and covers a specific period in Art History. Learn about famous periods such as the Renaissance, the Baroque, Neo-Classicism, and Romanticism.
Also check out this other free video course offered by the Otis College of Art and Design, which further extends the Art History Timeline to the History of Modern Art:
You can also watch 13 lectures from the Modern Art History course which is being offered through YouTube from the Otis College of Art and Design. In these lectures Dr. Parme Giuntini, Director of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, covers many schools of modern art including Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and more. She also provides the political and social context which these art movements arose from. Enjoy this free, 5-hour introduction to Modern Art from the Otis College of Art and Design.
For an amusing talk on modern art, listen to author Tom Wolfe in this talk he gave at his 60th class reunion at Washington and Lee University:
In the tradition of his 1975 book The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe skewers the modern art world of the 21st century. He presents slides of the work of famous “deskilled” and “hands off” modern artists such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Marina Abramovic. He talks about the art world establishment as consisting of about 3,000 people who determine the taste and value of modern art.