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If you're interested, this link is to Stanford's School of Engineering where they're offering ten free courses online.

 

Stanford School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere

 

Welcome to Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)

For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

 

SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

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Basic Ecology:

 

Open Yale Courses | Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

 

Ecology I: The Earth System | Civil and Environmental Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare

 

Also, there is a lot of government reports on federal and state sites that are free to check out, and range anywhere from on-the ground individual soil conservation to academic reports and professional manuals that cover conceptual topics in wildlife conservation and management.

For example: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr144/psw_gtr144.pdf

 

Bird Identification (visual, song, and detailed bird banding aging) (North America) for pros and novices alike:NatureInstruct Home

 

Check your local library interlibrary loan policies; mine interfaces with Worldcat and can get me most things, even thesis texts. Also check your library electronic databases. Mine has a lot of good electrician courses, Mango language learning software, but is understanbably weaker on the academic journal articles (other than health and medicine).

 

Some universities allow community members access to some or much of their collection. The one closest here does allow community memebers to check out most books and goverment documents.

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