Education Links

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The project -- http://www.onlinecourses.com/ -- is a free and comprehensive resource that is a collection of open college courses that span videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT.

Follow the link below to the National U3A Website for access to other useful links to organisations, which may be of value to U3A members.

http://www.u3a.org.uk/web-links/78.html

Another provider, Udacity, offers free courses in more advanced computer skills such as building a search engine and a robotic car. Groups can enrol at www.udacity.com.

Digital Unite at www.digitalunite
.com
has been created specifically to support older people in using computers and the internet. Also try :

There is now a new website available called Walking in England, which contains a section on Walking in Kent, and has more than 40 walks listed for the Sevenoaks area. For more detail go to www.walkinginkent.co.uk/sevenoaks.php.

Guides to 5,872 walks in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Norway, with more being posted all the time, are available from www.walkingworld.com. For £18 a year groups can download any available walk. Alternatively, an individual walk costs £1.95.

A new initiative - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is being developed through the Open University. Click on the link below to see a number of interesting free online courses

http://www.futurelearn.com

ALISON, the “Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online” offers a range of free lessons in computing and management skills. Groups wanting to explore the courses should visit
http://alison.com/subjects/1/
Digital-Literacy-IT-Skills.

The Open University Openlearn scheme has a wide variety of online courses which can be found by clicking on this link, and more from the U3A Online in Australia here.

Examples of the courses available via OU Openlearn are :
Living with the Internet : Keeping it Safe
Information on the Web

The TAT have issued a list of over 80 operas which have been made available by Paul Foss of Bristol U3A. Each presentation is of a single opera or the operatic works of a composer or covers opera history, and all are designed to fit into a 90-minute session. Most have a handout. If interested please e-mail Paul at paulfoss123@btinternet.com. Click here to see the list of operas.

The Third Age Trust, our parent organisation with headquarters in Bromley.

Some local U3As:

Tutored online courses are now available via the U3A, and include :

Short Story Writing;
Just before Victoria;
Three Viking Women;
The First World War - the Home Front.

For more details contact : onlinecourses.u3a.org.uk