In our last lesson we talked about the top 3 online courses to learn & build a course for students, and of course if you were looking at building a course for your students we talked about Teachable vs Podia: Top 2 online course builders Comparison.

In today’s lesson, you will learn about and get a list of the Best Online Learning Centers you want to follow and get resources. But before we see that, let’s learn the concept of online learning.

What is Online Learning?

According to www.wlac.edu, online learning is education that takes place over the Internet. It is often referred to as “e- learning” among other terms. However, online learning is just one type of “distance learning” - the umbrella term for any learning that takes place across distance and not in a traditional classroom.

What are the Top Resources for Online Trancing?

In general, when taking an online degree program any student might encounter resources like:

· EBooks;

· Journals;

· Videos;

· Recorded lectures;

· Quizzes.

Personally, I believe video is still the best in its fold for those that want to study online. For other online learning resources, check out educations.com

Top 5 Best Online Learning Centers to follow

#1. Berkeley

UC Berkeley's Webcast and Legacy Course Capture Content is a learning and review tool intended to assist UC Berkeley students in course work. Content is available to UC Berkeley community members with an active CalNet and bConnected (Google) identity.

#2. Johns Hopkins

The John Hopkins is all about Public health knowledge for the world.

The courses offered here will enable students to have a solid introduction to the theory, methods, and application of economic evaluation in health care with a specific focus on decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.

It will also help them get alternative approaches of modeling research questions for these fields. Approaches include calculation of costs and effectiveness measures using standard modeling methods.

And lastly, compare outputs as a result of decision tree and Markov modeling and introduces sensitivity analysis.

#3. Computerscience1

This course is all about understanding: understanding what's going on inside your computer when you flip on the switch, why tech support has you constantly rebooting your computer, how everything you do on the Internet can be watched by others, and how your computer can become infected with a worm just by being turned on.

Designed for students who use computers and the Internet every day but don't fully understand how it all works, this course fills in the gaps.

Through lectures on hardware, software, the Internet, multimedia, security, privacy, website development, programming, and more, this course "takes the hood off" of computers and the Internet so that students understand how it all works and why.

Through discussions of current events, students are exposed also to the latest technologies.

Check out the course here.

Kindly note that the Computer Science E-1 is a course at Harvard Extension School. E-1 isn't so much about computer science as it is about technology and how it all works.

Most every student who takes this class uses computers every day but doesn't necessarily understand what's going on underneath the hood (or, in some cases, is outright scared!). All students exit this more comfortable with computers and the Internet.

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#4. Yale

The Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats

Registration is not required

No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website. However, courses for Yale College credit are offered online through Yale Summer Online including OYC professors John Rogers and Craig Wright."

#5. University of the People

University of the People (UoPeople) is the Education Revolution! It is the first non-profit, American-accredited, tuition-free online university dedicated to opening access to higher education globally.

Those are my top 5 places for online learning. What are yours? Or do you have any online course hosting platform recommendations?

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