Strong communities are built off friendships. BlackGirlsHack has virtual and onsite events to provide networking opportunities to our members. Building strong foundations in the community is part of our mission.
BlackGirlsHack features valuable resources such as trainings, discounted certification vouchers, and early and mid-career mentoring, We seek to try and eliminate any barriers to breaking into careers in technology and cybersecurity. We have mentoring, resume review and mock interview services to help our members not only get their next job but stay there.
The field of Cybersecurity is ever changing. This is why we are starting various exciting programs. Early Education Outreach to Middle Schools/High Schools and Community Colleges to support Entry into the field through our We Got Next Cyber and BlackKidsHack programs. Professional development classes in Cyber and Tech by leading educators and professionals. Soft Skills and Leadership Classes/Training provides well rounded cyber and technology professionals.
Free learning resources are core to our social mission. We believe that the main barriers to starting education are access, lack of confidence and cost. This is why the Open University works to remove these barriers. We build on formats and platforms that are available offline and online. This improves our discoverability and access. We eliminate cost by planning the delivery of free learning through sound and sustainable business models. We improve learner esteem and confidence by helping them gain badges and statements of participation.
The Open University has a radical and pioneering approach to access. Matching a refusal to place qualifications barriers in front of our own students, we also have a commitment to release and promote free learning content for others, for the benefit of the wider community. OpenLearn is a trailblazer for the provision of high quality open educational resources (OER) at scale and breadth, for free and accessible to all.
We deliver bite-sized learning experiences designed to fit easily into daily life. Whether you're looking to get promoted at work, support your children with their schoolwork, a student looking for extra study materials, or simply passionate about a subject, we are open. There are no requirements to access our free materials.
LibreLingo's mission is to create a modern language-learning platform that is owned by the community of its users. All software is licensed under AGPLv3, which guarantees the freedom to run, study, share, and modify the software. Course authors are encouraged to release their courses with free licenses.
LibreLingo offers an official web app, which is very lightweight and written in Javascript using Svelte framework and pouchDB by the way, to try out LibreLingo courses interactively right in your browser, no installation required!
To make progress against the pressing problems the world faces, we need to be informed by the best research and data. Our World in Data makes this knowledge accessible and understandable, to empower those working to build a better world.
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OpenStax resources provide K12 teachers high-quality, peer-reviewed, OER content in multiple accessible formats. Includes textbooks, problem sets, answer guides, slides, and more.
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The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit, is building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals — and ultimately a stronger democracy.
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A list of cybersecurity internships, designed to help students identify teams and opportunities. This is in no way an endorsement of any of these programs, organizations, or the like. This is strictly informational.
I don’t want this to be Vega’s Opinionated Big Ass Book To Give You An All-In-One Education, both because VegaOpBABTGYAAIOEdu is far less catchy, and because I don’t even think it’s possible. The more I write on this the more I value input of others and other resources I find, and the more happy I am that I called this project Opinionated Guides.
A Guide. That’s what I want this to be. I want OpGuides to be a resource that’s like your friend you can come back to for advice on where to go next, and I think that’s something the internet really needs. Search engines are were awesome for finding information, but only when you know what to look for, so I figure OpGuides can be a sort of curated information source, with the crappy results filtered out, the best resources I know of included, and a healthy mix of entertainment in the education so that it’s not a chore to read.
Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!
Students spend hundreds of hours using these tools over the course of their education (and thousands over their career), so it makes sense to make the experience as fluid and frictionless as possible. Mastering these tools not only enables you to spend less time on figuring out how to bend your tools to your will, but it also lets you solve problems that would previously seem impossibly complex.
Translated into multiple languages.
Github: https://github.com/missing-semester/missing-semester
A curated list of books that will blow your mind.
Build your own (insert technology here) when you know nothing about it. Dozens of links to curated tutorials about lots of different things, from 3D rendering to how network stacks work to other stuff.
A free, independent, and open source set of curricula for learning languages.
David MacKay has put the textbook he wrote online for everyone to download in a variety of formats. If you find it useful, consider buying a copy.
The full text of The Handbook of Applied Cryptography, one of the best textbooks available in the field. The original authors have gotten permission from the publisher to put the text online as sets of PostScript and .pdf files for anyone to download and share.
A free, online book on the C programming language. There is also a downloadable .pdf file of the contents of the e-book so you don't have to try to archive the whole website.
A search engine which indexes where you can purchase over 150 million rare, out of print, new, used, and import-only books online.
The subtle wit of Isaac Asimov.