The Distance Education and Training Council -- Free Publications, Downloadable as PDF Files. Useful Site for Learning About Distance Education.
ERIC-ACVE -- ERIC-ACVE is the ERIC Clearing House for information on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education and contains research reports, curriculum materials, project descriptions, conference proceedings and presentations, journal articles, and other hard-to-find education-related materials. A complete list of ERIC Clearinghouses, Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouses, and ERIC support components can be found through the ACCESS ERIC
website.
GCF Global Learning -- Our goal is To provide free computer and career training to help people improve their employment potential.
Holiday Lectures on Science -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Holiday Lectures on Science Program. (Heavy subject matter, not for the faint hearted surfer, but good resources for the serious adult interested in medicine
).
National Community Education Association -- NCEA's mission is to provide leadership to those who build learning communities in response to individual and community needs. It does this by providing its members with national and regional training conferences and workshops; specialized periodicals, publications, and products; opportunities for peer support and networking; and information and referral services. In addition it acts as an advocate for community education by working with related organizations and promoting at the national, state, and local levels.
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) -- OVAE supports a wide range of programs and activities that help young people and adults obtain the knowledge and skills they need for successful careers and productive lives. On this site, you will find useful information about programs, grants, and events related to adult education and vocational education; school-to-work; high school reform; community colleges; correctional education; community technology centers; empowerment zones and enterprise communities; and teacher development activities.
Stanford Center for Professional Development -- Learn about cutting edge topics from industry leaders with our Online Seminars. These are currently available to the general public at no cost. (Maxpatch Editor's Note: You can take college classes online here too, but they aren't free.)
University of Texas, World Lecture Hall -- Your entry point to free online course materials from around the world. Please browse, search, learn and enjoy.
Yahoo! Directory on Adult and Continuing Education -- Yahoo! Education - reference materials, online learning communities, and more.
Buisness Open Learning "Archive -- BOLA is designed to act as a business studies primer, stimulate preparation & questions for seminars, make lecture handouts redundant, support distance learners, offer relevant WWW links, target specialist study.
iFigure -- Provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
Lifelong Learning -- Welcome to the leading web site for the encouragement, promotion and development of lifelong learning. Lifelong Learning is supported by the Access to Learning for Adults Division of the Department for Education and Skills.
ScheduleEarth -- Detailed information on conferences, business-to-business seminars, trade shows, training venues, distance education courses and corporate events.
Globewide Network Academy -- Online Distance Education Catalog.
tv411 -- Here's a terrific website where adults can strengthen their skills in reading, writing, vocabulary and math.
