Free IT Courses at Stanford

Introduction to Databases

What background do I need?
The course does not assume prior knowledge of any specific topics, however a solid computer science foundation -- a reasonable amount of programming, as well as knowledge of basic computer science theory -- will make the material more accessible

Machine Learning

What are the pre-requisites for the class?
You should be able to program in at least one programming language and have a computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with internet access.

Artificial Intelligence

The Economics of Information Technology

Interesting course from MIT OCW ;The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing;
Shapiro, Carl, and Hal Varian. Information Rules: A Strategic to the Network Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780875848631.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Adam Saunders. Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262013666.

Saloner, Garth, and A. Michael Spence. Creating and Capturing Value: Perspectives and Cases on Electronic Commerce. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN: 9780471410157.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Brian Kahin, eds. Understanding the Digital Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262523301.

Liebowitz, Stan. Re-Thinking the Network Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace. New York, NY: American Management Association, 2002. ISBN: 9780814406496.

Varian, Hal, Joe Farrell, and Carl Shapiro. The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780521605212.

Eric Mazur on Teaching

In 1991, Mazur began designing an instructional strategy for teaching called peer instruction. In 1997, he published a book called Peer Instruction: A User's Manual which provides details on this strategy.

Peer Instruction (PI) has been found to be more beneficial than class-wide discussion or lecture. In fact, according to an article in the March/April 2009 edition of Complexity, over 90% of instructors who have tried PI plan to continue to use it and incorporate it more into teaching.[1] The seating arrangement plays an important role in the outcome of this method. For example, when low-performing students are seated in the front, their chance to do better increases. Meanwhile, the results of high-performing students who are seated in the back are not affected. In addition, when high-performing students are seated in the outer four corners of the classroom, the performance of the class as a whole increases.

Want to study AI under Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig

Hurry up and sign up before the deadline.

Stanford has been offering portions of its robotics coursework online for a few years now, but professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are kicking things up a notch (okay, lots of notches) with next semester's CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. For the first time, you can take this course, along with several hundred Stanford undergrads, without having to fill out an application, pay tuition, or live in a dorm

Marketing Plans- very basics

How to do a Marketing Plan for a Marina

Marketing Plan Checklist

View more presentations from Richard Graves & Associates.

What's Payback Period?

Basics of Accounting Lessons- Payback Period

Payback period intuitively measures how long something takes to "pay for itself."

Related:
Solar Panels Payback Period

The Era of Digital Art

Data Journalism Basics-how do you get a story from the data

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

via Statistical Graphics

Related:
datajournalism.stanford.edu

Torrenting Textbooks

Is this legal?

Torrent my Textbooks

Elementary Maths Teaching Resources Assorted

Interactive Maths Puzzles

100 Prisoners and a Light Bulb

Maths Projects

Maths for America

The Coming Revolution in Language Learning

See this post over at BH

A Portrait of Paul Erdös

Random Lecture- Dynamic Programming

Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

India's answer to MIT OpenCourseWare?

Excellent set of videos from Indian IITs- National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning.

Basics in Mathematics, Science and Engineering

Management Information System

Leadership

Management Science I

Mathematics 01 (Rating 10 out of 10)

Link to YouTube channel

The Creator of THE 99- Comics for Tolerance

Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa

I grew up in a part of the world where George Orwell's Animal Farm was banned. It was also banned in the former Soviet Union. The Kremlin banned it because as a totalitarian regime, it did not want democratic messages to be spread within its borders. The censors in the USSR chose to go beneath the surface of the allegory, understand the message in the book and ban it accordingly. In my neck of the desert, it was banned because there was a pig on the cover. Go figure.

The Holy Qur'an was revealed in an Arabia that was alive with the richness of Jahiliya (pre-Islamic) period poetry. The miracle of the Qur'an was not only in its message, but also in the complexity of the syntax used to communicate that message. Its prose is unmatched in the history of the Arabic language. It is an absolute shame that the Qur'an continues to be held hostage by those who favour the idolatry of words over the depth of their meaning and the elasticity of the human intellect.

Bill Gates kids use Khan Academy videos

An Ad of Soccer Greats

First the Grip, Ready Position, Footwork, and then the Strokes

Badminton Tip of the Day;

The most important skill to learn for beginners is the grip. This is the fundamental to stroke selection and the direction/trajectory of the shuttlecock. After the grip, the ready position. After that is the basic footwork to 4 corners and the return to the centre base. Lastly is the strokes.

But the technical skill of badminton takes years to learn. There are many scenarios, shot selection, guile, movements and most important maintaining dynamic balance, to be able to retrieve any shots quickly.

via blog Badminton Research

ACCA and CIMA on You Tube

Richard Clarke Academy Belfast

I like the use of Mind Maps in the videos.