The following collection of websites can help you learn about virtually everything that is taught in academia and beyond. This list of sites below includes some MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which allow anyone to take real classes at the best Universities in the world, absolutely free, though not for college credit. Still, it is conceivable that a person could learn a subject very well and then earn CLEP credit at an actual school. Plus, many people believe that MOOCs will replace college degrees in many subjects because MOOCs are much more evidence-based. You can check out this YouTube video called “EPIC 2020” in which the prediction is that most colleges will disappear in the near future because online certificates will be more valuable to employers than actual degrees will. There are already MOOCs that will help the top-performing students to obtain a job without a degree.
Academic Earth – free video course lectures from some of the top Universities in the country
Berkeley – a huge collection of video lectures
Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative – they have a small offering of free courses
CK-12 – a focus on K-12 lessons, in a beautiful format
Code Academy – this is an excellent place to dive right into computer programming
Coursera – tons of MOOCs (not just lectures, but actual courses), from over 50 great schools — this is an excellent place to try a MOOC for the first time, and they even give out certificates for completion
EdX – take a actual course at Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, and many other top-notch schools — this is another excellent place to get started in the world of MOOCs
Khan Academy – millions of free video lessons about very specific topics
OER Commons – a huge repository of different types of course materials
MIT’s OpenCourseWare – this collection of free course materials was one of the first, and it can be useful for learning just about any subject
OpenCourseWare – this is a global collection from schools all around the world
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) – the best source online for learning about anything related to writing
Stanford – MOOCs taught by actual Stanford professors, during a specific time period, and you can actually earn a certificate too
TED Talks – “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”
Udacity – a small offering of introductory courses in Business, Computer Science, Math, Physics, and Psychology — the focus is on Computer Science, but they will help you to find a job
Udemy – free and paid courses in a wide range of non-academic and academic subjects
Please feel free to comment below if you know of any more online resources to help people to learn about everything, especially any additional MOOCs
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