Category Archives: eLearning

Online Learning: Take a Free Course on Anything, Anytime

By Marilynne Rudick on September 26, 2011

Did you always want to study classical music, Renaissance art or game theory? Do you wish you’d gone to Harvard? Now you can study just about anything at Harvard, MIT, Oxford, or thousands of other institutions worldwide. Best of all, the courses are online, so you can learn 24/7. Most of these courses are free.


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Need Help: Who Ya Gonna Call? TeachParentsTech

By Marilynne Rudick on March 16, 2011

Do you use your kids or grandkids as your Help Desk? Google staffers were so frequently presented with how-to tech list when they visited their parent, they created a website TeachParentsTech.org. It provides under two-minute videos to explain common computer and web tasks.

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Great Explanations: Technology in Plain English

By Marilynne Rudick on June 7, 2010

Writing about web technology in plain English is hard work. But Common Craft manages to do it in three-minute videos that are not only clear, but fun. Topics include blogs, RSS, social networking and cloud computing.

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YouTube for How To’s: Just-In-Time Learning

By Marilynne Rudick on May 6, 2010

My favorite YouTube app is just-in-time elearning. You can learn how to do just about anything in under 10 minutes. You can do it 24/7. And it’s free.

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