Free Business Courses Online

Does anyone know of any Free educational web sites online?

I am looking for web sites that offer free courses in computer or business administration studies or just in art that are free and available online.

Take a look at the MIT OpenCourseWare site:

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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1990s Slang $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud, laugh out loud, or sometimes lots of laughs, is a common element of Internet slang. It was used historically on Usenet but is now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO (“laughing my arse/ass off”), ROTFL or ROFL (“roll on the floor laughing”), and BWL (“bursting with laughter”). Other unrelated expansions include the now mostly historical “lots of luck” or “lots of love” used in letter-writing. Laccetti (professor of humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology) and Molsk, in their essay entitled The Lost Art of Writing, are critical of the terms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such slang, stating that, “Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be ‘lol’ when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms.” Fondiller and Nerone in their style manual assert that “professional or business communication should never be careless or poorly constructed” whether one is writing an electronic mail message or an article for publication, and warn against the use of smileys and these abbreviations, stating that they are “no more than e-mail slang and have no place in business communication”. Yunker and Barry in a study of online courses and how they can be improved through podcasting have found that these slang terms, and emoticons as well, are “often misunderstood” by students and are “difficult to decipher” unless their meanings are explained in advanc… More:

Argentine Philanthropists: Mart n Varsavsky $9.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martín Varsavsky (born in Buenos Aires in 1960) is an Argentine entrepreneur based in Spain. Born to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman-Diamond, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee supported and assisted by B’nai B’rith, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. In 1981 he obtained a BA at the New York University, in 1983 he earned an MA in International Affairs and in 1985 an MBA at Columbia University. Since July 1995, Varsavsky has been living in Madrid, Spain. Besides his business activities, he is also engaged in non profit activities. Since 1999 Varsavsky has been teaching courses on entrepreneurship at IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa) in Spain. He has written articles on business and international relations that have been published in several international publications including El País and Newsweek, and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. Varsavsky is also an active blogger. Martín Varsavsky married Nina Wiegand on July 22, 2009, in Hawaii. He has 4 children. In 1984, at the age of 24 and still in college, Varsavsky created Urban Capital Corporation, a real estate company in New York that was one of the early leaders in the Loft Movement. Urban Capital Corporation purchased industrial buildings and recycled them into residential apartments and offices, developing up to 50 thousand square meters in the Soho and Tribeca neighborhoods of New York City. In 1986, together with Argentine scientist Claudio Cuello and César Milstein (Medical Science Nobel Prize), Varsavsky founded Medicorp Sciences, a biotechnology company in

Bond University Faculty: Babette Bensoussan, Ingo Petzke, Paul Wilson, Jon Jenkins, David Day, Peter Harrison, Mike Grenby, David Weedon $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Babette Bensoussan, Ingo Petzke, Paul Wilson, Jon Jenkins, David Day, Peter Harrison, Mike Grenby, David Weedon, Shirleene Robinson. Excerpt: Babette Bensoussan is an author and competitive intelligence specialist, who has written several books on competitive intelligence and analysis. She runs a Sydney, Australia based consulting firm, The MindShifts Group Pty. Ltd. Babette was a Founder and Vice President for the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals in Australia (SCIPAust), a member of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management and Competitive Intelligence Review editorial boards. She was awarded the SCIP Meritorious Award in 2006, and was the first international recipient of the SCIP Fellows Award in 1996. She also has taught undergraduate, MBA and executive courses on competitive analysis and intelligence at the Sydney Graduate School of Management and Bond University. Babette is widely recognised and sought after for her international expertise in competitive analysis, and has provided mentoring and training to executives and organizations to assist with the delivery of the highest level of knowledge and implementation of competitive intelligence. With over twenty years experience as an international specialist in strategy and competition and as founder and director of The MindShifts Group, Babette has undertaken major studies for and consulted to Australian and Global Fortune 500 companies. She has undertaken over 300 projects and consulted to a wide range of industries and markets including aerospace, information technology/computers, transport, financial services, waste services, pharmaceuticals, utilities, mining and manufacturing operations. Apart from her active business responsibilities, Babette has tau… More:

Bookshops of Australia (Study Guide): Daily-Update Publishers, Angus $10.18 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Daily-Update Publishers (or DU Publishers) is an Australian publishing company, now specialising in English and ESL e-books. Daily-Update Publishers was founded in 2000 as an Internet aggregator (a gatherer of news and articles) by the current directors, Cameron Russell and Fay Russell. The following year, the Daily-Update Language Institute was established in Hsinchu, Taiwan. A second Daily-Update school was established a few months later. Daily-Update ESL Publishers was established in 2001 as a Taiwanese company, initially to publish materials for the two schools. A team of forty writers (see below) was commissioned to write the materials. Another forty computer programmers, web developers, illustrators and layout artists (see below) put the material into book form or created computer games. In February 2005, Daily-Update launched 33 books at the Taiwan International Book Exhibition, and reprint rights were sold in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Soon after that, the publishing company was moved to Australia, trading under the company name of Daily-Update Pty Ltd and using the business name of Daily-Update Publishers. The books have since been exhibited in many countries. In 2007, the company started selling all books as e-books. In 2008, the company established DU English College. In April of 2009, Daily-Update launched an Australian Registered Training Organisation, trading as Green Skills Australia, which provides offices, government departments, universities, colleges and schools with online and classroom-based training in green skills, sustainability, leadership, report writing, workplace relations, construction, etc. Refer to RTO Courses. Authors include: Andrew Bennett, Merle Bowden, RB Carmelette, Carmen de Leon, Judy G… More:

British Astronauts: Richard Garriott $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961) is a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is also known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa. A figure in the video game industry, Garriott was originally a game designer and programmer and now engages in various aspects of computer game development and business. On October 12, 2008, Garriott launched aboard Soyuz TMA-13 to the International Space Station as a self-funded tourist, returning 12 days later aboard Soyuz TMA-12. Garriott was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Nassau Bay, Texas. He is the son of scientist Owen K. Garriott, who became an astronaut and flew with Skylab 3 and Space Shuttle mission STS-9. At Clear Creek High School, he took an interest in computers and began self-directed courses in programming in which he created fantasy computer games. In the summer of 1977, Richard’s parents sent him to the University of Oklahoma for a seven-week computer camp. Shortly after he arrived, some of the other boys attending the camp introduced themselves. When Garriott replied to their greeting of “Hi” with “Hello” they decided he sounded like he was from Britain, and gave him the nickname “British”. Garriott uses the name to this day for his various gaming characters, including Ultima character Lord British and Tabula Rasa character General British, despite the fact that Garriott’s parents moved to Texas when he was a baby and despite his nickname and birthplace his accent is American rather than British. Richard continued programming many games, often offering them to friends for free. He produced his first published game, Akalabeth (DND28b), in the summer of 1980 while working at a ComputerLand retail store. Garriott earned … More: