For my experience I can recommend online courses run by edX. Professional courses from many disciplines enterprise of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and their partners. What other webpages can you recommend?
http://www.edx.org/
Hello, I think video of NIH may be very professional.
http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp
Check ibioseminars, there are basic information about various aspects of life science.
http://www.ibioseminars.org/lectures.html
I would also recommend coursera. I took a writing in science course that was excellent.
As an On-line lecturer, I can recommend the process as a means of learning while still retaining your position in the work-force. Students of our program do this for many reasons: improvement of qualifications for promotion, self improvement, improvement for job seeking and so on. The interface on the internet is now so fast that some on-line programs are now global. While some classroom (face-to-face) teaching opportunities are not possible, there is plenty of scope for interaction. In brief, I love on-line education.
Andrew E. Whittington PhD FRES
Honorary Fellow of the School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida. [http://www.forensicscience.ufl.edu/]
Instructor: Global Forensic Education. [http://www.globalforensic.org/]
We in University of Magdalena (www.unimagdalena.edu.co) have 3 virtual learning objects especifically in climate change: introduction, It impact in public health and impact on infectious diseases. These based in IPCC and other scientific articles. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called that climate change is a threat to public health
El cambio climático y su efecto sobre las enfermedades infecciosas
http://elearning.unimagdalena.edu.co/CambioClimaticoYSaludPublica/3EfectosEnfermedadesInfecciosas/Intro.html
El cambio climático: un problema de salud pública
http://elearning.unimagdalena.edu.co/CambioClimaticoYSaludPublica/2ProblemaSaludPublica/Intro.html
Introducción al cambio climático
http://elearning.unimagdalena.edu.co/CambioClimaticoYSaludPublica/1CambioClimatico/Intro.html
http://elearning.unimagdalena.edu.co/CambioClimaticoYSaludPublica/3EfectosEnfermedadesInfecciosas/Intro.html
Supercourse is always my choice
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
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What benefits this free courses give to host institutions? I can not believe that this happens just for education:))
By offering on-line courses, the host institution expands it's potential student-pool beyond the formal geographic boundaries of a brick-and-mortar university, greatly increasing its audience.
Very encouraging comments :-) I never used it, but I am positive that more and more students will gain more and more knowledge from online teaching, it is just question of time. And I hope I will give some online courses before I retire...
Thank you very much for all your valuable answers! In my opinion, many of us will agree that online courses play a massive role in nowadays education. Online studying has many advantages and the most important one is that online courses are free and available for thousands of people around the globe! Many of graduates can't afford another courses or training because not only of financial aspects, but because of time, family and jobs. Online learning gives use possibility to spent 5-10 hours a week and stay open minded and updated with the newest research and knowledge! Personally, I encourage many of my friends and students to take extra online training. Anyone who can share portals with online learning please do so!
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