Online Learning Platform and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
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edX is an online learning platform and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is powered by Open edX, which is an open-source platform and is freely available. edX prides of over 130 global partners of leading universities, non-profits, and institutions.
Through edX, UICT students will have access to a wide range of educational e-publications in the following subjects:
Online courses cover the core concepts in all areas of business including entrepreneurship, economics, finance, marketing and product development. Learn about business contracts, supply chain management, statistical analysis and much more with online courses from Harvard, MIT, Cornell and other top universities.
Effective communication skills are essential for success in the digital age. Learn the principles of public speaking and the keys to creating powerful messages with online courses and MOOCs taught by leading professors at Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and other top institutions.
Computer Science covers important topics in artificial intelligence, cyber security, software engineering, big data, and programming skills.
Data is the foundation of the Digital Age. Access materials to help you learn how to organize, analyze and interpret these new and vast sources of information. Free online courses cover topics such as machine learning, baseball analytics, probability, randomization, quantitative methods and much more.
Learn key financial topics such as corporate finance, risk management, M&A, pricing models, money markets, deal structure, economic policy, financial-decision making, and more with online finance courses from top institutions worldwide.
The online courses in electrical engineering explore computation structures, electronic interfaces and the principles of electric circuits. Learn the engineering behind drones and autonomous robots or find out how organic electronic devices are changing the way humans interact with machines.
UICT students will gain access to e-publications in engineering and explore specific areas such as structural, mechanical, electrical, software or aeronautical engineering. EdX offers free online courses in thermodynamics, robot mechanics, aerodynamics and more from top engineering universities.
E-publications in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus from the leading math and science institutions, such as MIT, Caltech, and Tsinghua available for UICT students.
Find online courses in quantum mechanics and magnetism the likes of MIT and Rice University or get an introduction to the violent universe from Australian National University.
Science is one of the most popular subjects on edX and online courses range from beginner to advanced levels. E-publications cover neuroscience, genotyping, DNA methylation, innovations in environmental science, modern astrophysics and more from top universities and institutions worldwide.
The ibiblio is home to one of the largest free information databases online - it is a collection of e-books, magazines, academic essays, software, music and radio. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and Information Technology Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UICT users can browse the collection, download for free from the catalogue
Beginning on August 14, 1991, arXiv at Cornell University Library is a repository of electronic preprints/ e-prints approved for publication after moderation. The repository consists of over 1,429,862 scientific e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on the arXiv repository.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate – and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OpenCourseWare is a large-scale, web-based publication of MIT course materials. The project was announced on April 4, 2001 and uses Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. MIT makes their course materials available as open educational resources through the Open Education Consortium with over 250 participating institutions.
As of May 2018, over 2,400 courses were available online. While a few of these were limited to chronological reading lists and discussion topics, a majority provided homework problems and exams (often with solutions) and lecture notes. Some courses also included interactive web demonstrations in Java, complete textbooks written by MIT professors, and streaming video lectures. Over 100 courses included complete video lectures. The videos were available in streaming mode, but could also be downloaded for viewing offline. All video and audio files were also available from YouTube, iTunes U and the Internet Archive
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Project Gutenberg - Free e-booksProject Gutenberg offers over 57,000 free eBooks for online reading and download. UICT users can choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature, with focus on older works for which copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. No fee or registration is required.