Wednesday, June 23, 2010

We have competition!

The most popular educator on YouTube does not have a Ph.D. He has never taught at a college or university. And he delivers all of his lectures from a bedroom closet.

This upstart is Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio. His unusual teaching materials started as a way to tutor his faraway cousins, but his lectures have grown into an online phenomenon—and a kind of protest against what he sees as a flawed educational system.

"My single biggest goal is to try to deliver things the way I wish they were delivered to me," he told me recently.
-College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube

Saturday, June 12, 2010

I envy the Accountants

An interesting source of free accounting resources- Open Tuition;

Our site was officially launched on 12 February 2008. At the moment we feature free materials for ACCA, AAT and also free Accountancy tutorials for Non-Accountants.

OpenTuition.com is dedicated to providing all accountancy students throughout the world with the resources they need to study for the major accountancy qualifications, completely free of charge. Providing high quality study materials, believing that your success is our success!