If you are interested in continuing your education or learning a new subject, how about taking some classes at MIT, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, or Harvard. Forget the outrageous college loans, not to mention the hurdles of just be admitted these organizations are offering free online classes. Back in December there was a reddit.com post where users compiled a list of free online education sites. I copied the list then, but couldn’t find the post again, so I’m going to link what I have below.
I’ve personally used Khan Academy, and listen to as many TED talks as I can, I find them a bit more mentally stimulating than the typical reality TV today, and with the Roku connected to my TV I can watch most of this on the big screen. Khan Academy has over 2,700 videos, close to 300 practice exercises and has implemented an online coaching system to help you progress through the lessons.
If anyone else has additional resources not listed please or experience with a particular site please add a comment, and I’ll update the original post.
General Sites:
Schools and Universities:
- University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit
- MIT Lectures
- Carnegie Mellon
- Johns Hopkins
- Tufts
- Rice – Connexions
- Utah State
- Berkeley
- Berkeley Part 2
- Berkeley Part 3 (videos)
- Stanford
- Stanford Part 2 (videos)
- Harvard
- University of Sydney
- University of Virginia
- Stanford
- Yale
- Yale Part 2 (videos)
- University of Washington CSE
- University of Chicago
- University of New South Wales
- Open Course Ware Finder
- Open Course Ware Consortium
- University of the People
Other General Sites:
- Wikiversity
- Youtube Edu
- 100 Best Intro Courses
- Khan Academy
- Open Culture
- TED
- Cosmo Learning
- Knol
- Academic Earth
- Free Video Lectures
- More Video Lectures
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Learners TV
- IncrediCampus
- LectureFox
- Freelance-Teacher
- National Programme on Tech Enhanced Learning
- Study Blue
- WikiHow
- How Stuff Works
- Wonder How To
- Better Explained
- TeachMate
- Learning Schedule Tracker – Smart.fm
Specialized Sites:
Computer Related:
- Carl H Programming with corresponding subreddit
- Google Code University
- Learn about Linux
- Free Technology Academy
- Lynda.com
- Web Building Tutorials
- Building Websites via Academic Earth
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum
- Stack Overflow (Question Site)
- D Zone (Question Site)
Music:
- Funk University
- Piano Lessons
- Music Theory – Trainear.com
- Music Theory – MusicTheory.net
- Guitar Lessons at Ultimate-Guitar
- Guitar Lessons at The Stringery
- Guitar Lessons at The Next Level Guitar
- Guitar Lessons at Justin Guitar
- Bass Lessons
- Chord Book – Chordbook.com
- Chord Book – Chorder.com
- Guitar Neck Quiz
Language:
Cooking/Food:
- Good Eats (alternate video source)
- Cooking Coarse (Youtube Search Summary)
eBooks/Online Books/Academic Journals:
- Project Gutenburg
- Planet eBook
- The Free Library
- Google Books
- Open Book Project
- WikiBooks
- Safari Books Online (paid subscription needed)
- Using Open Edu Resources – eBook (.pdf)
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist – eBook
- Large list of science eBooks
- Scribd
- WorldCat – Worldwide Library Catalog
- Cornell University – arXiv.org
- Cite Seer
- Scirus
- Get Cited
- Online Library – ibiblio
Other Subjects:
- The Math Motherload
- Western Civilization
- Psychoactives
- Philosophy
- Make Magazine
- Self Improvement – 101 Linked Resources
- Custom Action Figures
- Exercise
- Yoga
- Raising Chickens
- Argument Mapping
- Investing
- Instructables
- Physics for Future Presidents
- Creative Live
- Let’s Make Robots
- InfoPlease – Almanac
