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Digital Enlightenment: Using the Internet for Research, Learning, and Education

Digital Enlightenment: Using the Internet for Research, Learning, and Education

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I’ve been using the Internet since 1993. But, it wasn’t until a few years ago that I truly started using the net for research purposes. One of my key interests is philosophy, and I’ve learned quickly that it’s helpful to have easy access to a wide variety and volume of information. I’ve been collecting a comprehensive list of online resources including links, ebooks, summaries, courseware, research tools, search engines, multimedia, and software that are really applicable to many fields of study.
Rather than creating traditional tables for this data, I figured I would share the original mind maps as is. I used MindJet’s MindManager to export the maps to HTML format.



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Content
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This section contains links to online libraries, ebooks, search tools, and research tools for academia.

Courses
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This section contains links to free online courseware from major universities (OpenCourseWare), self study materials from various companies (e.g. The Teaching Company), and other E-Learning related sites.

Multimedia
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This section contains links to various audio and video content. This includes audio books (MP3, tape, CD), podcasts, audio/video streams from universities, and educational content from Google video.

Software
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This section contains links to a handful of software that is highly useful for researchers. Knowledge managers, outliners, and mind mapping tools.

Summaries
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This section contains links to services that provide summaries of either traditional textbook material (e.g. Cliffnotes) and major business book summary companies.

8 Responses

  3. LearningNerd

    Thanks for sharing this! I just came across this page from I don’t even remember where, and I’m glad I found it. Bookmarked! I’m an autodidact as well — I blog about what I learn online, while I try to learn everything I can. So it’s nice to see another autodidact around these parts! 😉

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