General Education

Textbooks, at a reduced cost

Textbooks, free

Free education
Lots of free education is available through the Internet.

eBooks and Audio Books

Lectures

Courses

Fractions, division of: One quarter is “one out of every four.” You are already doing division when you are doing fractions. To divide fractions (that is, to undo the division you are doing) turn it upside down and multiply.

If want you a degree, check out Western Governors University, an online and accredited degree-granting organization. They don’t offer classes, they offer degree programs. $2,890 for a six-month term; terms begin the first of every month. If you knew the sheepskin you wanted, you could “test out” of introductory courses, and pick up a Bachelor’s degree in two or three years, paying 2,890 every six months.

Testing

Language

  • Think of Conjuguemos as an online workbook for your Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin language students. The site stores a large amount of practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by our users. Teachers can also create their own activities.

Five Minute MIS
Four “A”s of Information Management

  1. Acquire
  2. Analyze
  3. Assess
  4. Act

Five Minute MBA
Three “P”s and a “D” of Business

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Promotion
  • Distribution

Sometimes this is presented as four “P”s, with “Place” substituting for “Distribution”. E.g., Marketing Mix at MarketingTeacher.com.

Five Minute BA in Philosophy

That brilliant insight you read, heard or had: were you remarking about how you know (decide that, discover that or determine that) something or remarking about what it is (its nature)? Technically, is it an epistemological question or a metaphysical question (respectively)? More than likely, the insight is interesting only if you can confuse the two types of observations.

Marianne Talbot lectures in Philosophy

A Classical Education

Consider working on the seven liberal arts: the Trivium (grammar, rhetoric and logic) and the Quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy)

An Undisciplined Education

The following questions do not seem to have an academic study or discipline that would address them:

  1. How are decisions made, when decisions are made well?
  2. How does work get done, when work gets done well?
  3. How do people work together, when people work together well?

The Problem of Questions

When giving a presentation, do you take questions during the presentation or hold them off until the end? If they are held off until the end, they probably won’t be asked. If they are given during the presentation, they interrupt its flow.

Have persons make a note of their questions, then break for questions every … fifteen minutes? There is probably an optimal interval to pause for questions. The written note to remind yourself of the question should be brief, perhaps three words. When you are writing, you are not listening.

A well prepared presentation should lead you along. The question you want to ask may be answered in the next few seconds. Waiting a hour before pausing for questions can make a brief note of three words unintelligible.

The compromise, then, would be to hold questions until a break, with frequent breaks.

Don’t be afraid to anticipate questions and, instead of waiting for the question to be asked, point out that further information is beyond the scope of this presentation.

The Problem of Mistakes

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. That’s how you learn. But why do you have to learn so much?

Presentations

Livelier PowerPoint presentations with:

  • Poll Everywhere Poll via SMS, Twitter and update the Powerpoint slide
  • Twitter Tools Poll via Twitter and update the Powerpoint slide
  • Papershow project notes written during presentation
  • Fotolia stock photographs, clipart

Projects

Here are links to various (science) projects:

Educators and students can get free components for educational purposes (regulators, Schottky diodes, and such) from Texas Instruments. Register at ti.com. Limit of eight items per order.

  • RFID 4U
  • RFID Basics Course helps learners to understand the fundamentals of RFID technology and provides an overview of RFID hardware including different types of tags, tag frequencies, readers, antennas, and so on.
  • Wireless Connectivity: RF ICs and proprietary protocols for the Sub-1 and 2.4 GHz frequency bands, ANT™, Bluetooth®, Bluetooth low energy, RFID, PurePath™ Wireless audio, ZigBee®, IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee RF4CE, 6LoWPAN, Wi-Fi® [pdf]

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