Tuesday 24 July 2012

Studying for FREE Online

What started out as a way for university students to catch up on missed lectures, has evolved into one of the internet's greatest achievements - FREE university courses and education on just about every topic.

Offering courses from over 200+ universities around the world, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
See: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
With over 3200 videos (subtitled into over 50 languages) and adaptive assessment environments, the Khan Academy sets a new benchmark in global learning. See: http://www.khanacademy.org
Offering courses from many of the top universities around the world, including Princeton, Stanford and Edinburgh.
See: http://www.coursera.org
Offers online courses that are project and problem solving based, rather than lecture based. Option to certify through a testing center for a fee. See: http://www.udacity.com/
Offering courses from MIT, Harvard and Berkeley, with 'real world' exams for a fee in over 450 test centres in 110 countries. See: http://www.edx.org/
Launched in 2007, Alison has over 400 free courses from leading publishers. See: http://alison.com/course/
Part of The Open University in the UK with over 600 free courses and discussion forums to connect with other students. See: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
Offers a wide range of courses and learning resources for all ages. All UK residents are paying for this website, which is probably the biggest in the world. Best make use of it then. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/onlinecourses/
New crowdsourcing venture where you learn to speak French, Spanish or German and help translate the web. See: http://duolingo.com/
Learn to program in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML & CSS, and JQuery. Includes an annual course called 'Code Year' for anyone who wants to learn how to program. See: http://www.codecademy.com/

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