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Einztein

"Openness plants seeds for future innovation. The work of many universities around open content has contributed to an ecosystem for innovation. Einztein is the latest company to try and add a value layer to freely available educational material. More and more of these companies will appear in the near future offering a combination of aggregation of open content, a central place to discover courses, tools to run aggregate courses, discussion forums for learners, and general course management tools (enrolling, sharing with other profs, grading, etc.). " - George Siemens



WHAT?
Einztein, a non-profit headquartered in Santa Monica, California, is the brainchild of three democratizers of education who believe in a world where learning should be a function of desire not privilege. Einztein serves as a one-stop campus from which online learners can easily explore the universe of free online courses delivered by any combination of text, audio, video and other media. Whether you already know the course you’re looking for, or you just have a general idea, the purpose of Einztein is to make online courses easy to find. All courses featured on Einztein are hand picked, by their PhD level editorial team, based on their completeness and quality (Source).

In short, Einztein is a great starting point to find free quality online courses. Though, I would like to note that I did find broken course links and courses with no substantial content, so the editorial team needs be 'more picky'. Perhaps, include a few non-PhD level e-learning professionals (such as myself...) to ensure more completeness and quality :)

Any Free Online English Resources? Try This Collection…

What really struck me while I was searching for ESL (English as a Second Language) online resources, was the amazing amount of options that we have. Whether you want ESL content for your IPod, or you want to do an online quiz to test your knowledge, trust me, there are enough resources to last you a few life times (and more). Wow! Are you kidding me! Then I found another bomb (not that kind of one)! Wow! It was one ESL learning orgasm after another. Below is a list of interesting ESL resources that I have discovered until now, and most of them are free. Keep in mind, this might just be the tip of the iceberg. If you get to the end of this post, I will reveal the ultimate ESL resource collection (to my limited exploration!). Have fun with this raw list (with some really juicy ones first):

1. Dave's ESL Cafe
   The site looks a bit messy and it probably applies perhaps some outdated scripts and tools, but if you look beyond the cosmetics, you will find an amazing ocean of ESL resources. Also, it is a great meeting place for ESL teachers and students (check the forums) . If I end up as an ESL teacher one day, Dave would certainly be my 'knowledge sharing' role model. Thumbs up!
   
2. BBC Learning English
   Is a resource for people who want to learn British English. It has material for both students and teachers, including video and audio clips. It also has links to improve your business English, with bilingual support for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. A great site to Learn English. It is BBC for crying out loud!
3. ESL Pod
   Is run by a team of experienced English as a Second Language professors with over 30 years of high school, adult, and university ESL teaching experience. Dr. Lucy Tse writes scripts and story ideas for the podcasts, and records many of the dialogs and stories. The host for the podcast is Dr. Jeff McQuillan, who helps read the scripts and provides explanations for them.
4. EnglishSpeak.com
   Is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains lessons that give special attention to English pronunciation and everyday language. With over 100 lessons, Englishspeak.com provides a large amount of audio content. Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item.
5. ESL Kingdom
   was established and is run by a small team of multi-national ESL professionals who have drawn on decades of experience teaching in Asia, Europe and North America to create the materials available for use in your lessons.
6. English Baby
   English lessons to help you study ESL. Practice English with English Chat and English forums. Find Friends and penpals in different countries, test your English vocabulary with our vocab quiz, and check your English grammar and English slang.
7. English to go
   English lessons, Learn English, Teach English, Lesson plans, ESL resources, ESL reading. One of the world’s leading providers of English training resources delivered via the Internet. Their resources are used by more than 55,000 teachers in 190 countries reaching over one million students worldwide.
8. PodCards
   PodCards are audio postcards that you can download to your iPod. They contain information about a particular town or city from different countries around the world or biographies of famous people or events that make these places famous.
9. EnglishMeeting
   A resource with audio and video for ESL (English for Second Language) students and teachers worldwide.
10. languagecaster.com
    The idea behind this site is simple. By listening, reading and writing about something you enjoy - football - you can improve your English language skills. Follow the Premier League in England, and the big football stories from around the world while learning English. Why didn't I think of something like that!
    
11. ELTgames.com
    100 activities written by professional ESL/ELT writers. No downloading PDFs - just choose, print and go. Quick and easy to use, even over a dial-up connection.
12. LEO Network
    For over 10 years Learn English has been the free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers. With over 2 million visitors a month, it must be doing something right.
13. Learn English
    This site is for elementary and intermediate learners of English. You can study grammar or vocabulary topics and try one of the 400 exercises and language games.
14. English Page
    Free online English lessons & ESL / EFL resources.
15. EnglishCafe
    An English learning community for the global professional. It is an evolving culture of English learners and experts, where people help each other navigate our rapidly changing world through use of a common language.
16. Bee Oasis
    At BeeOasis you can enjoy many stories without a dictionary at a level just right for you. Learning English without a dictionary. That is interesting!
17. Exam English
    This web site is for people studying for an English language exam. These pages contain free online practice tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CPE, CAE, FCE, and PET. You can also find out information about the different exams.
18. ESL Business News
    A weekly podcast of international business news read in slow, clear English. Listen to the podcast and follow along in the accompanying script.
19. Yossarian the Grammarian
    A whole bunch of excellent video tutorials exploring grammar and sentence construction. You have to watch this great teacher get down to business simplifying gerunds and who knows what. To be honest, he seems a bit frustrated with all the hopeless ESL or English teachers out there. Hopefully other English teachers are watching. One minus point though, I believe he could have used simpler examples (phrases and sentences) to make his points clearer.
20. podcastsinenglish.com
    All podcasts are free for language learners and teachers, but only members receive the learning English worksheets, vocabulary tasks, webquests and transcripts.
21. English Listening Practice for English Learners
    You will find good stories for listening practice on almost every page of this site.
22. English Teacher John Show
    An easy-to-understand English learning podcast site, which features grammar, idioms, pronunciation, topics and more.
23. ESL Learning Pod
    This site was put together to help you learn English. It provides free podcasts and learning materials for you to practice and improve your English language skills.
24. The English Desk
    Practise your English listening skills by listening to the episodes first without reading the text.
25. The Word Nerds
    Is a podcast about language and language change. It has been published on the Internet since March 21, 2005. Originally published every week, it now appears once every two to three weeks.
26. Lingofeeds - English for Professional Purposes
    Is dedicated to providing niche-specific English learning materials for professional purposes. Launching June 2009.
27. UGoEigo
    It offers two video podcast series to help you learn English pronunciation: “English Sounds” and “Functional Phrases”. Each lesson shows a close-up of the mouth saying the target sounds and words.
28. Pronunciation Power
    Pronunciation Power teaches you how to use the 52 sounds necessary to say all 540,000 English words. Commercial, but still worth a buck, I suppose.
29. Free English and Spelling Lessons
    By Mikie Metric. This site uses American English rules of spelling and grammar .
30. Essay Punch - An Interactive Writing Tutorial
    The site provides online interactive exercises that guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing.
31. GlobalEnglish
    Improving business English communication skills of global companies. Founded in 1997, GlobalEnglish has become the leading provider of online learning and support for business English communication. They offer a scalable, on-demand solution that helps employees improve their ability to communicate effectively in English and enables companies to succeed in the global marketplace.
32. YouTube Channel - English Tutorials
    Shakespeare, Grammar, Composition... English at your fingertips! check out writing essays, what Hamlet really means, and all the strange quirks of verbs... anything you need in school.
33. Studio 4 Learning
    
    Studio 4 Networks provides award-winning lifestyle and educational programming delivered on-demand over cable television, satellite, and the Internet.
34. Englishcaster
    Is for both students and educators: EFL, ESL, TESOL, TEFL. You can listen to, rate, review and submit podcasts, as well as other English study resources.
35. Tech ELT Blog
    This blog began life for everyone taking the CELTA course at International House Barcelona, but is also intended to be of interest to anyone wanting to use technology in English Language Teaching.
36. ESL-to-go
    In today’s fast-paced world of e-mail, instant messenger, on-line classes and blogs “ESL TO GO” was born. This is a blog to help ESL students.
37. The English Blog
    Internet resources, reviews, news, tips and trivia for learners and teachers of English.
38. Business English Pod
    Business English Pod provides MP3 and video podcast ESL lessons for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each business English podcast lesson is focused on a particular workplace English skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning, negotiating, socializing, travel, conversation etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning, expressing opinions, persuasion etc.).
39. Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study)
    Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers.
40. Learn English Online with English4Today
    Hundreds of grammar and vocabulary resources, online courses, IELTS, Business English, and Writing courses, video English lessons, podcasts, downloadable software.
41. Entry WSU ESL Help Desk
    This virtual help desk is designed to help ESL (English as Second Language) students and their instructors at Washington State University (and you).
42. Curricular Resources in English as a Second Language
    Here are a number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to Language Arts. You may also find useful information (e.g., various foreign language dictionaries) in their collection of Reference Materials.
43. Common Errors in English
    William, James Co. has published a book based on this site titled Common Errors in English Usage. It contains most of the contents of the Web version (as of the date of publication) plus more detailed discussion of many of the entries simply listed under “More Errors.” Since the site will remain online for free use, why should you buy a copy? Could point!
    
44. FoxLingo
    A language tool that gives you easy access to sites in foreign languages. It is the first meta-translator, linked to thirty-six free online translators, enabling you to translate between fifty languages in over 1,500 different language pairs. Foxlingo has been downloaded over two million times by people all over the world.
45. MeGlobe
    Is a web-based instant messenger client with realtime translation into 14+ languages. This Jabber-powered tool lets folks chat interlingually.
46. English Learning Pakistan
    Check out the 7 excellent rules for learning English easily and automatically. Several of the resources on this site is not free, but the 7 rules book is (That alone is worth the visit).
    

If you ask me to recommend the ultimate mambo jumbo list or collection of ESL resources (if you have a couple of weeks to explore!), it would have to be Dave's ESL Cafe's Web Resource list. Here you will find more than 3000 links (URLs) to English related learning resources from A-Z. Amazing! In addition, you might want to explore the Top ESL Websites, which is another wonderful collection.

Have fun learning English as a second language. I mean third, or ... simply have fun ' Learning English' :)

Salman Khan Uses Microsoft Paint to Inspire Learning

THE KHAN ACADEMY

Salman Khan (Sal) founded the Khan Academy with the hope of using technology to foster new learning models. The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. They currently have 1000+ videos (growing fast!) on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.

SALMAN KHAN

He is currently the portfolio manager of a fund based in Menlo Park, CA. Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was president of the student body. He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from MIT where he was president of the the Class of 1998. While at MIT, Sal was the recipient of the Eloranta Fellowship which he used to develop web-based math software for children with ADHD. He was also an MCAT instructor for the Princeton Review and volunteered teaching gifted 4th and 7th graders at the Devotion School in Brookline, MA (Source).

SIMPLIFY

Sal knows his stuff (pretty well!), and has a great ability to simplify what he teaches using story telling with a laid-back approach (conversational style). As far as I know, his formula to create learning content is quite unique:

1. Microsoft Paint is his blackboard (Who needs PowerPoint?), which he uses to draw and illustrate step-by-step what he is explaining.
   
2. He records the narrated lessons using a screen recording software (Here are a few free ones!).
   
3. When recorded (and edited), he uploads his recordings to YouTube (YouTube Channel).
4. Then he links his recordings or lessons to The Khan Academy website, which indexes the hundreds of videos as he likes.

No real cost required (excluding his website), except his precious time. I suppose he figured out that instead of teaching a few people here and there (again and again), he could educate the world (doing it once!).

Alright, he is not going to get A+ for graphics, but I would give A+ for creativity, pedagogy, passion, knowledge sharing, and efficient development. How many educators have produced 1000+ videos (x10 = 10000 minutes/60 = 166.6 Hours), or more than 166 hours of e-learning content in a few years?

Yes, I also love the way he has chunked most of his videos into digestible 8-12 minute lessons, which are perfect for learning-on-the-fly.


INSPIRE

It is inspiring to see Sal share his amazing knowledge to the world in such a creative and efficient way. I suppose he deserves an Oscar for knowledge sharing :)

Here in Malaysia and Singapore, parents spend millions (if not billions of) dollars on tuition for their kids to score great grades. What if we could inspire geniuses here who have a knack of simplifying content to do similar kind of initiatives. By doing so, we can level the field a bit more and enable perhaps some of those who couldn't afford tuition to have a chance to compete and do better. Well, you still need a computer device and Internet (unless the content is downloaded), but it would still be a great start.

In other words, we don't actually need to spend millions to produce quality e-learning content and learning experiences. With today's free web 2.0 technology, we could do it practically with no significant initial cost (except for our time).

For example, we could use Google Sites to develop our website, free screen-recording (casting) software to capture our lessons, and use YouTube to upload our content (or perhaps Google Video, if our videos are longer than 10 minutes). If we are developing PowerPoint presentations, we could use SlideShare (and link uploaded audio, which can be synchronized with the slides. Audio upload alternative: Internet Archive). Another PowerPoint (convert-to-Flash) upload alternative would be SlideBoom, which also captures the PowerPoint animations.

These are just a few possibilities of many we can use to share our knowledge and skills to the world. I suppose the biggest struggle today would be to find the time to do it (and the appropriate tool(s) to use) :(

On a positive note, Sal has found the time and his work is inspiring. He fits well with my new learning motto (and adventure):

Simplify Ideas, Inspire People! :)

Let’s Improve Our Keyboard Skills!

From what I have learned after observing especially Professors and Senior Lecturers (PSL) in action, is that many of them often lack the ability to type quickly. It is often the one, two, three, four fingers magic show! It wouldn't also surprise me if there is a strong correlation between poor typing skills and de-motivation to facilitate online learning.

The faster you type, the more time you have to think (Better yet, do it at the same time!). The beauty of great typing skills comes when you are capable of typing as fast as (or faster than) you think. Also, then you don't need to say, "What was I thinking again?".

In short, to improve the success of any e-learning or online facilitation initiative, I believe it is vital that educators (and students) have good keyboard and typing skills (say at least 30+ words per minute), so that they can efficiently answer e-mails, forum posts, chat sessions, develop content, projects, assignments, and so on.

If you don't have great keyboard skills already, don't worry. Just ignore your stubborn ego, and start practicing. You don't need to spend money, because here are a bunch of free learning tools to assist you:

• keybr.com
  Take a typing speed test and practice typing online.
  
  
• Peter's Online Typing Course
  Provides a set of free online typing lessons and typing exercises for beginning typists, and frustrated hunt-and-peckers who want to move from four-finger typing to full-blown touch typing.
  
  
• Goodtyping
  Free online typing course. Please try it without registering. If you like what you practice, then bother to register :)
  
  
• TypingWeb
  is a free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for typists of all ages. All skill levels will benefit from TypingWeb's free keyboarding lessons.
  
  
• Rapid Typing
  A typing game, where the training takes place in a “virtual picturesque underwater world” adding some fun to the learning.
  
  
• PowerTyping
  An online free typing tutor for kids, students and adults alike!
  
  
• BBC Typing Tutorial
  Aimed at the younger kids, but is great fun for anyone learning typing.

Have fun mastering your keyboard skills, which will empower your potential and ability to really enjoy online facilitation in a 'Boltelicious' way. Just remember to practice and ignore your stubborn and lazy ego (if so!) :)

Any Free Medical Online Resources?

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
- Martin H. Fischer

Here is a juicy collection of free medical resources, games and courses that you might want to use for your personal learning, or embed in your course/training/program as supplementary, or core resources to enrich the students' learning experiences.

Let's start with...

• Medical Slides World
  SlideWorld is a web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. It is a PowerPoint Search Engine that enables you to search more than 7 million presentations (.ppt) on medical related content. The site is open to anyone and is free of cost. Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal.
  
  
• MedEdPORTAL
  Is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. All copyright and patient privacy issues are addressed during the submission process so users around the globe can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.
  
  
• MedWorm - Medicine RSS
  Search over 6000 authoritative Medical relates RSS feeds from one place.
  
  
• Medpedia
  Is a long term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. The Project provides a free online technology platform to any individual or organization that can benefit from its use.
  
  
• JHSPH OCW
  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseware (JHSPH OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses.
  
  JHSPH OCW Image Library enables you to search or browse to find and download hundreds of images from OCW courses. Most images are licensed for reuse, and their incorporation into your own educational materials is encouraged by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as part of our commitment to the open sharing of educational resources.
  
  In addition, you might want to check out Johns Hopkins Podcasts, too.
  
  
• Health Sciences Online (HSO)
  HSO is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge. Search and browse any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources. Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by knowledgeable staff at HSO.
  
  
• Human Body and Mind - Interactive Body (BBC)
  An amazing interactive exploration of the human body and its functions.
  
  
• Visible Body - 3D Human Anatomy
  Is a free virtual human anatomy website with detailed models of all human body systems.
  
  
• Medical Videos
  Is an online library dedicated for videos and movies related to Medicine and Surgery to provide one easy place to find whatever a doctor,medical student,nurse or any individuals involved in medicine to find whatever he/she looks for.With a simple broadband connection you can enjoy the high quality medical videos either to learn new techniques or to be updated with the latest advances in medicine.
  
  
• Think Anatomy
  They have found links to the best anatomy resources on the Internet, categorized them, reviewed them, and put them in one place for you. Thank you :)
  
  
• Street Anatomy
  Street Anatomy is the creation of Vanessa Ruiz, art director, medical illustrator, blogger, and all out anatomy fanatic. It obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design. Street Anatomy began as a blog to educate people about the field of medical illustration and slowly evolved into an exploration of how anatomy is portrayed in everything from fine art to advertising.
  
  
• LearnersTV.com
  This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine, Management and Accounting etc FREE to its visitors... This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will definitely help learners around the globe. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License. Currently, they have 3100+ videos in their database.
  
  
• MerckSource
  Offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They have designed this website with your health and medical needs in mind. Best of all, it's free and it has absolutely no advertising. No distractions. Just credible health and medical information at your fingertips.
  
  
• Medical Animation Library
  Free medical animations as provided by the University of Pennsylvania Health System. This content is "bandwidth intensive." The latest versions of the following browser plug-ins must be installed: Shockwave and Quicktime.
  
  
• Molecular Movies
  This web resource presents an organized directory of cell and molecular animations, as well as a collection of original tutorials for life science professionals learning 3D visualization. The goal is to provide an efficient way for scientists and educators to browse and access existing animations for teaching and communication purposes.
  
  
• Human Embryology Animations
  It explores General Embryology, Cardiovascular Embryology, Development of the Head and Neck, Gastrointestinal Embryology, Development of the Limbs, and Urinary and Reproductive Embryology. Amazing stuff!

Blogs

• Digital Medicine and Technology in Medical Education (Dr. Neelesh Bhandari)
  Assessing the impact of Digital technologies on Health care.
  
  
• Wishful thinking in Medical Education
  A GP and Clinical Lecturer in Cardiff University (Wales, UK) interested in the use of new technologies to further medical education. This blog explores how to use the tools that are available, and how we can help students get the most out of learning, and become better doctors.
  
  
• Aestheticdoctor (Dr. Chin Shih Choon)
  Discusses lifestyle, beauty and the latest trends in medical aesthetics.
  
  
• Please suggest more :)
  

Educational Games

Here is a sizzling collection of free educational games related to health, medicine and life (more EduGames!):

• FreeRice
  Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge (vocabulary, language, maths, geography, chemistry, etc). For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
  
  
• AIDtoCHILDREN
  The game will help to expand your vocabulary and help children in need while doing so. For every correct answer they will donate .25 cents to children in need.
  
  
• Re-Mission
  Understand cancer better and develop a positive attitude toward defeating it.
  
  
• WFP Foodforce
  Understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it.
  
  
• The POD Game
  Dispense drugs and medical advice to people during an emergency. Using this game, you can enhance your efforts to teach staff and volunteers to work efficiently and sensitively with the public to maximize throughput in times of crisis.
  
  
• Blood Typing
  In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion.
  
  
• Virtual Hip Surgery - Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a hip replacement surgery!
  
  
• Virtual Knee Surgery - Total Knee Replacement
  Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery.
  
  
• The Ear Pages
  Sound is caused by changes of pressure in the air that is transformed into nerve impulses in the inner ear. Explore "The Ear Pages" and collect the snail shaped symbols to gain points in the quiz!
  
  
• Immune Attack
  An educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. It aims to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology.
  
  
• The Immune System Defender
  Ilya Mechnikov, inserted a thorn into a larva and noticed strange cells gathering around the thorn. The cells were eating any foreign substances entering the ruptured skin (devouring cells). Play the game to learn more!
  
  
• Whack TB (Tuberculosis)
  There are almost 9 million new cases of TB each year; about 500,000 of these cases are resistant to the best TB drugs available to fight them. Play this game and learn more about fighting TB!” From the Families USA Global Health Initiative.
  
  
• The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective
  There has been a mysterious outbreak of unhealthy habits among kids, and we need to solve these cases. All junior food detectives will get secret training on how to eat right and exercise. Have fun playing the game!
  
  
• The Food Detectives Fight BAC!
  The game gives kids a fun way to learn about foodborne illness. From New Mexico State University.
  
  
• Fatworld
  A video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S.
  
  
• WaterBusters!
  A game to teach tips for water conservation around the home.
  
  
• Energyville
  It’s up to you to provide enough power to meet the energy demands of your city’s 3.9 million people while keeping them prosperous, secure, and living in a clean environment. The implications of the energy decisions you make today for your city in 2015 are based on the current lifestyles and the projected energy demands and costs for developed countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
  
  
• ElectroCity
  ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It teaches players about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
  
  
• Ayiti - The Cost of Life
  What is it like to live in poverty? Find out now in this challenging role playing game in which you take responsibility for a family of five in rural Haiti. From UNICEF with Microsoft support.
  
  
• Stop Disasters
  The online game aims at teaching people on how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Multiple languages. Good teacher resources.
  
  
• Real Life Simulations
  That let you experience life as, for example, a peasant farmer in Bangladesh, a factory worker in Brazil, a policeman in Nigeria, a lawyer in the US, or a computer operator in Poland, among others.
  
  
• 3rd World Farmer
  It aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries. In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm, and is soon confronted with the often difficult choices that poverty and conflict necessitate.
  
  
• Climate Challenge
  A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
  
  
• Global Warming Interactive
  Is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions (intended for the high school user).
  
  
• Quest Atlantis
  Help students understand social studies, environmental concerns, current events, and scientific standards.
  
  
• Deliver The Net Game
  Race the sun and hand out as many insecticide-treated bed nets as you can to African families. The more nets you deliver – before the mosquitoes come out – the more lives you save.
  
  
• Harpooned
  Harpooned is a free game for Windows. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica.
  
  
• WolfQuest
  Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Play alone or with friends in on-line multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and encounter stranger wolves in your quest to find a mate.
  
  

Open Courseware (OCW)

Here is a collection of interesting Health and Medical OpenCourseware you might want to explore further (Check JHSPH OCW for more!):

1. Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health (Johns Hopkins)
   This training examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.
   
   
2. Population Health (Tufts University)
   This course explores the relationships between population health and public health, animal health and human health, and clinical and population-based health practice.
   
   
3. Human Growth and Development (Tufts University)
   This course explores the various developmental "tracks" longitudinally from birth to death, and the individual at various cross-sectional stages/ages of life.
   
   
4. Managed Care and Health Insurance (Johns Hopkins)
   This course explores the major issues related to the design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance and managed care plans.
   
   
5. Population Change and Public Health (Johns Hopkins)
   This course introduces the basic elements of population studies, including: population size, composition, and distribution, and the causes and consequences of changes in these characteristics.
   
   
6. Public Health Biology (Johns Hopkins)
   This course explores population biology and ecological principles underlying public health and reviews molecular biology in relation to public health biology.
   
   
7. Addiction and Neural Ageing (The Open University - UK)
   This course examines some of the biological and psychological issues underlying addictive behaviours and the ageing of the nervous system.
   
   
8. Nutrition and Medicine (Tufts University)
   This course teaches basic nutrition principles that are relevant to other medical courses such as pathology, growth and development, and pharmacology.
   
   
9. Microbiology (Tufts University)
   This course explores the principles of infectious agents, including the basic tactics used by microbial pathogens to establish infectious diseases.
   
   
10. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Johns Hopkins)
    This course explores the basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology and case studies of important disease syndromes and entities.
    
    
11. Implant Dentistry (Tufts University)
    This course is explores the fundamentals of Implant Dentistry, including the basic concepts and foundation of diagnosis, treatment planning and sequence of treatment with the patients, practice coordinators and prosthodontic faculty members.
    
    
12. Principles of Drug Development (Johns Hopkins)
    This course explores the underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures. It describes and evaluates specific examples, and discusses legal and ethical regulations that apply to drug development.
    
    
13. Oral Public Health and Community Service (Tufts University)
    This course examines the impact of society, disparate cultures, attitudes, health beliefs and risk behaviors on oral public health.
    
    
14. Challenging Ideas in Mental Health (The Open University - UK)
    This course takes you on a journey of discovery where you are invited to challenge ideas, both new and old, in relation to mental health.
    
    
15. Geriatric Dentistry (Tufts University)
    This course considers dental needs of the rapidly changing and ethnically diverse geriatric population. It covers a wide range of lecture topics, from Nutrition and Aging to Oral Cancer and Other Pathologic Lesions of the Geriatric Patient.
    
    
16. Preclinical Complete Denture Prosthodontics (Tufts University)
    This is the introductory course to the treatment of the edentulous patient and continues as the student progresses to the Advanced Clinical Complete Denture Lecture Series and the clinical treatment of patients.
    
    
17. Introduction to Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness (Johns Hopkins)
    This presentation introduces the topics of disaster mental health services, mental health surge capacity, and psychiatric first aid.
    
    
18. Improving Understanding and Collaboration among First Responders (Johns Hopkins)
    This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups.
    
    
19. Biological Agents of Water and Foodborne Bioterrorism (Johns Hopkins)
    This presentation examines the various biological agents that terrorists could use against food or water supplies.
    
    
20. Agricultural Science and Policy I (Tufts University)
    This course highlights the relevance of natural resource conservation for ensuring healthy agricultural, food and environmental systems, as well as the various approaches for implementing it.
    
    
21. Introduction to Human Nutrition (UC Berkeley)
    This course provides an overview of digestion and metabolism of nutrients.
    
    
22. Introduction to Neuroscience (MIT)
    The course will span modern neuroscience from molecular neurobiology to perception and cognition.
    
    
23. Health Issues for Aging Populations (Johns Hopkins)
    Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons.
    
    
24. Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging (MIT)
    Lectures and discussions in this course cover the clinical, behavioral, and molecular aspects of the brain aging processes in humans.

FIRST AID

This 'First Aid' resource section is 100% inspired and replicated from Michelle Fabio's excellent post on 'Mission to Learn'. Here is a list of 10 recommended free first aid online resources:

1. American Heart Association e-Learning
   Lots of information on heart emergencies with basic First Aid, CPR, and AED courses (for a small fee) that can be completed anytime, anywhere; also has a Pocket First Aid & CPR iPhone application.
   
   
2. American Veterinary Medical Association Pet First Aid
   Printable information on how to deal with small and large pet emergencies from poisoning and seizures to broken bones and heatstroke.
   
   
3. CPR Dude
   Run by an American Red Cross CPR, AED, and First Aid instructor, this site offers lots of information presented in a fun, interactive way.
   
   
4. FirstAid4All
   Comprehensive resource with information on dealing with emergencies like choking, absence of heartbeat or breathing, poisoning, sunstroke, and electric shock as well as with accidents like burns, cuts, fractures, dislocations, bruises, bleeding, and foreign objects in the eyes or ears; also provides a checklist so you can create your own first aid kit to keep handy.
   
   
5. First Aid Web
   Offers free self-guiding CPR and First Aid courses with regular quizzes to chart your progress; note in order to receive certification, there is a fee.
   
   
6. Health World Online
   Instructions for dealing with many different kinds of accidents and emergency situations including animal and insect bites, fainting, frostbite, hyperventilation, seizures, splinters, and more.
   
   
7. Kids Health
   Great for parents, the First Aid & Safety section covers how to prevent and respond to emergencies at home, outdoors, and also away from home.
   
   
8. Mayo Clinic
   Lots of information on how to deal with accidents and emergencies, including corneal scratches, chemical splashes, head trauma, snake and tick bites, and nosebleeds; also tips on making your own first aid kit.
   
   
9. University of Washington School of Medicine
   Includes instruction on first aid for choking, standard CPR, hands-only CPR, CPR for children and infants, and CPR for pets; also printable instructions, videos, fun facts, and even iPhone and Android applications.
   
   
10. Waveland Fire Department
    Offers guidance on CPR procedures and the Heimlich Maneuver for choking victims, including helpful diagrams and illustrations.