Library Courses
The library subscribes to these resources so you can access them for free with your library card! (Get a library card)
- Linkedin Learning — A leading learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Check out the video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.
- Gale Courses — Offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.
- CreativeBug — This streaming service has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
Lectures
- In Our Time – Episodes of BBC Radio’s popular ‘history of ideas’ show are archived here. Listen to a podcast on the age of the universe, or whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
- TED Ideas Worth Spreading – TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) offers “ideas worth spreading…1500+ talks to stir your curiosity.”
- TEDX Events – Designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue at the local level. Check out the Editors Picks, or look for upcoming webcasts.
Online Courses
Online courses available to get a certificate (fees) or for free through auditing. Course length and time commitments vary. Teaching is through video lectures, podcasts, online discussions and links to articles and ebooks. Here are some examples offered through academic institutions, and open to anyone:
- Coursera – courses that span the humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business and computer science. Notable courses offered through the University of Alberta & Coursera are Indigenous Canada and Science Literacy.
Hint: When you click on the Enroll button, a popup will appear for a free trial… but look down at the bottom left and you will have the option to Audit the course for free. - EDX – partnership between MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and University of Texas. McGill University, the University of Toronto and others, offering courses “designed to be interesting, fun and rigorous.”