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Share know-how at the FreeMarket


The FreeMarket at the BrainFoodToGo.com web portal aggregates, archives, and distributes experience-based know-how for free use by all who “come to market.” Participants include college teachers and students as well as practicing, real-world entrepreneurs and small business operators. Users of this free material are also encouraged to contribute learning materials that they create.
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Free learning materials
The no-cost learning modules offered on this web site are designed in a Brass Tacks format and are for use primarily in distance learning programs, although they can also serve as powerful components of in-classroom courses or adult-ed programs. Except for certain indicated materials and those secured through links to external sites, there is no charge for content used by teachers and students. BrainFood is also available at no-cost to practicing entrepreneurs and business owners to aid them in the profitable operation of their ventures. 
An opportunity to network
The materials that participants contribute are afforded author identification; copyright notice; and e-mail address or URL. It's a powerful way to network in the business community. A contributor may discontinue the FreeMarket's non-exclusive distribution of his or her material (except that which has been already printed or distributed) at any time. Terms of use can be viewed by clicking here.
Our mission
The raison d'être of this undertaking is to develop and promulgate a self-education pedagogy to benefit both practitioners and learners by stimulating interaction between them. It relies heavily on the discipline of Socratic questioning.
Most importantly, this free service provides unmatched benefits for both students and teachers as well for practicing, real-world entrepreneurs and business owners.

Discover the benefits. Simply click on a topic to access it.

Student Benefits

The BrainFood FreeMarketTM affords students opportunities to use their contemporary skills to exploit available technology, global access, social interaction, and their native curiosity in the pursuit of self-education.
With faculty guidance, students can produce and share articles, term papers, case studies, surveys, book reviews, exercises, podcasts, simulations, tip lists, interviews, PowerPoint™ presentations, and quizzes for world-wide for use in on-campus courses, distance learning programs, and alumni continuing education curricula.
There are many creative ways that curious and ambitions students can generate or aggregate content for the BrainFoodToGo.com FreeMarket.
For students, it encourages collaboration, sharing, and archiving. They have an opportunity to use the search activity that is implied in research, thus turning Googling, Asking, and Bing-ing into productive research, both online and offline. This approach also accommodates their contemporary proclivities for bite-size content, computer-based interactivity, social networking, and speed of achievement.
The material that students create for the FreeMarket can be culled from libraries, blogs, web posts, and of off-campus providers including authors, consultants, researchers, journalists, seasoned entrepreneurs, business owners, and business executives. Materials can be easily submitted to the BrainFoodToGo.com FreeMarket as Word documents, PDF files, MP3 or WMA audio files, and MP4 video files.
This technique encourages collaboration that uses social networking technologies for the satisfaction of directed inquiry. It also can entail student interviews of resource persons of demonstrated accomplishment in their fields of study. This teaches students important research and communication skills and allows them to interact with real-world figures in their fields of study (which can be a real advantage when launching the eventual a job search!). Students can use “wiki” techniques to create their own study materials and share them with others (including teachers). Students can construct biographies (both written and oral), case studies, tip lists, and instructional modules (print and electronic). Click here and check out the complete list of student benefits.
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Teacher Benefits
With the BrainFoodToGo.com approach to providing educators with no-cost instructional content for class room, video conference, or distance learning use, these teachers can free-up time from course construction labors to devote to all-important counseling and coaching. The BrainFoodToGo.com Freemarket offers course content, instructional modules (course bolt-ons), entire courses, and inexpensive, customized textbooks.
Teachers can use the BrainFoodToGo.com methodology to foster student interaction with class members, students in other classes (even in other countries), professional “oracles,” alumni, community figures, and potential employers.
In addition to pro-active learning, this methodology also facilitates early career exploration. (Of course, all parties may need help in doing this, and the FreeMarket helps with this too.) It stresses new platforms such as distance learning, e-books, and collaborative inquiry and sharing. It values experience and the techniques by which it can be shared. “Experience is the best teacher; shared experience is the best education.” Archiving knowledge, as well as aggregating it, is emphasized.
Veteran teachers know that “instruction” is the most replicable, “packageable” aspect of the teaching process. When a teacher “off-loads" or automates that process in favor of a professionally packaged or outsourced course, he or she sheds forever the dreaded “talking textbook” image and enhances his personal value by freeing up time for student interaction, assessment, research, and updating, refining, and supplementing course content. Review a complete list of teacher benefits by clicking here.  
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Business Owner Benefits
While the FreeMarket was designed primarily to serve instructors and students who are exploring the entrepreneurial skills necessary for starting and managing a small enterprise or energizing a large established company, real world entrepreneurs and business owners can uses its offerings to hone their skills too. Content can be directly contributed to the FreeMarket by these parties as well.
Get a free web site for you entrepreneurship class
In addition to access to free materials, each college or university class using the FreeMarket is afforded a dedicated, institution-branded home page on the portal to offer print, audio, and video materials that it generates for the benefit of their peers. From this home page, visitors have a direct link to all the free materials submitted by individual classes in the entire universe of participating institutions. Each participating school enjoys a unique, proprietary BrainFood URL but has no responsibility for site or server maintenance. 
Publish a class "yearbook" of know-how
Each participating class also has an opportunity to publish an institution-branded “yearbook” of the content they’ve created during the course of their studies. The book can be used for community awareness programs, self-marketing, or revenue generation.
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Help create an entrepreneurship textbook
A very important mission of BrainFoodToGo.com is the creation of affordable textbooks. With a creator’s permission, his sor her contributed material will be formatted and repurposed for use in print, e-book, and Kindle textbooks that can be acquired for under twenty-five dollars – a price that is approximately eighty-percent less than a traditional entrepreneurship textbook. Content contributors will serve a worth cause and get recognition as an author as well!
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The BrainFoodToGo.com portal is maintained by the Center for Business Ownership Inc., Electromedia Technologies LLC,  and the Institute for Self-Education in Entrepreneurship. These organizations are dedicated to providing a wide range of informational, educational, and inspirational content in the realms of entrepreneurship, innovation, management, and leadership to the constituents of cooperating educational institutions and non-profit organizations throughout the world. A special effort is made to provide educational access to students in rural communities and other under-served, remote areas.