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Learn SEO: OER Commons Open Educational Resources
By Kimberly Bock | March 18, 2008
I was surfing through some educational resource links in Stumbleupon and various other places. I had somehow stumbled onto Morgrets page to find a wide variety of free educational blogs and websites.
I checked out Morgrets profile even further to find that she is affiliated with a terrific, free, no gimmick website called “OER Commons” - Open Educational Resources. She may even be their SEO. Dunno..I’ll have to ask her.
I did some research into what OER Commons offers and it’s a real goldmine of free free free education!
Which means you’ll probably never return to my blog again once you visit them unless it’s to see my sparkling light of love and all that jazz. 
Below is 1 of 17 results provided under the site search query for “search engines“. The others also look just as inviting as this one summary:
Combating Web Spam - Dr. Marc Najork Fall 2007
Students will first gain an understanding of the basics of how search engines work, and then explore how search engine design impacts business and culture. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities.
So I clicked on “view item” to see if it was going to lead to a bologna set of ‘do this’ ‘do that’ stuff before I could access the gold.
Nope. Behold what it leads to…A list of wide open podcasts. Free.
Here’s the list:
Search Quality: Dr. Jan Pedersen:Yahoo Search
What People Think About When Searching - Dr. Daniel Russell: Google
Search Technology Review - Dr. Marti Heart
The Economics of Internet Search - Prof. Hal Varian: Chief Economist, Google, and Professor, UCB
Combating Web Spam - Dr. Marc Najork: Microsoft Research
Privacy and Online Information - Chris Hoofnagle, J.D.: Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Review and Discussion
Multimedia Search - Dr. Lynn Wilcox: FXPal
Intellectual Property and Search - Jason Schultz, J.D.: Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Personalization and Search - Dr. Jaime Teevan: Microsoft Research
How Search Engines Shape Our View of Cyberspace - Dr. Geoff Nunberg: Adjunct Professor, UCB School of Information (Clip played during lecture has been removed)
The Future of Search - John Battelle: SearchBlog and Battelle Media
Search for the Developing World - Course Summary and Evaluations
Go get you some. It’s only a simple little registration process. With no crooked goings ons.
Until later, have fun learning SEO!
Topics: SEO/SEM Training |
March 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
THANKS for highlighting this tremendous resource!
As I prepare to launch another site [to attempt to create some passive income] you have given me lots of new reading material
March 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Thanks, Kimberly.
oercommons.org is one of those sites that you can keep on going back to and finding new stuff at. The “search engines” search has some fascinating presentations.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Mark: Hi again. Yes you’re welcome! When I first visited I was all over the place wondering where to begin! All geeks like us will absolutely freak over it. I’m glad to see that you’ll be taking advantage of what they offer. It’s endless.
Bill: I should be thanking YOU. I think I initially met Keri (Morgret) through you! That’s what attracted me to her SU profile pic to further explore. I had been in there before, but didn’t spend a lot of time digging through all the education that she offers in her Stumbles. I think I had only picked up a page to Stumble behind her. Anyway..yes, they seem to be designed to stay current with a multitude of resources. Very schweet indeed.