The Curious Reef Blog

Here’s a list of websites that you can use to create content for classes here on Curious Reef.

Although there is a lot of content available for free and that can be redistributed non-commercially, make sure to review and respect the creator’s rights before creating a class on the material.  I have not reviewed all of the licenses for these sites.

1. MIT OpenCourseWare
2. Stanford Engineering Everywhere
3. Open Yale Courses
4. UCSD Podcasts
5. List of freely available programming books
6. Academic Earth
7. VideoLectures.net
8. Khan Academy
9. YouTube EDU

Let me know if I’ve missed any sites that you think are link-worthy.

Of course, don’t think that classes have to be strictly based on content that is “academic worthy.”  Less formal classes are encouraged as well, such as Bash Scripting and Learning Vim from the Inside.

I just stumbled on this post with a video from the Khan Academy founder.  It’s a great inside look on what drives him to put together his video lectures on over 1,000 academic subjects.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2329-sal-khan-and-the-khan-acadamy-to-the-rescue

There are already several classes here on Curious Reef related to OpenCourseWare content.  Some classes focused on Khan’s lectures would be great too (they’re Creative Commons licensed).  If any of his subjects is interesting to you, feel free to create your own class on Curious Reef around the content.  It would be a great way to track progress and work with others.