1. Coursera
Coursera.org
is a website that partners with universities and organizations around
the world. This brings a wide variety of topics and perspectives to one
searchable database. Coursera is a powerful tool for free online
education, and includes courses from many top universities, museums and
trusts. This gives the site an extremely wide range of in-depth courses.
Coursera is extremely useful if you’re looking to study many different
topics, or want courses from different schools and groups.
2. Khan Academy
Partnering
with many post secondary schools, Khan Academy offers a useable, well
organized interface. Also curating many courses from around the web,
Khan Academy offers impressive depth on many different subjects. Among
the more well known educational sites, Khan Academy is also incredibly
useable, which may make it easier to keep learning goals.
If
you are struggling to find exactly the material you are looking for,
try Open Culture’s listing of free online education courses. The page
highlights 1000 lectures, videos and podcasts from universities around
the world. The site features a lot of material found only on
universities private sites, all in easy to browse categories. This means
you can find hundreds of university courses, without having to visit
and search each university’s own site. Open Culture’s list features
courses from England, Australia, Wales and many state universities
around the United States. A very helpful resource for finding many
courses in one area of study.
4. Udemy
Udemy’s
free courses are similar in concept to Coursera’s but additionally
allows users to build custom courses from lessons. Working with many top
professors and schools, the site mixes the customizable platform of
other sites with a heavy emphasis on top quality content. This is
another site however, that mixes free and paid content.
5. Academic Earth
Another
site with courses from many different schools is Academic Earth. Much
like the three sites above, Academic Earth brings together top notch
courses from many different sources, and focuses on offering a wide
variety of subjects. Academic Earth lists courses by subject and school,
so it might be easier to find what you’re looking for.
6. edX
Another
great option for free online education is edX. Also bringing together
courses from many different schools, the site has impressive, quality
information for everyone. edX covers a great range of topics.
7. Alison
Unlike
the previous sites on this lists, Alison is a free education site
offering certification in some areas. Alison offers courses mainly in
business, technology, and health, but also includes language learning
courses. A great option if users need certification for their learning,
Alison also offers school curriculum courses.
8. iTunesU Free Courses
A
very convenient place for free online education is iTunesU, because it
integrates seamlessly with your iPod, or any app-ready Apple mobile
device. On iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, users download the iTunesU app.
Desktop users can access iTunesU on the upper right hand corner of the
iTunes Store. iTunesU is also convenient because the store is
categorized much like iTunes. Users can search learning materials in
many different ways, including genre and topic. However, courses are
often a mix of free podcasts or videos, and paid content. ITunesU does
include courses on a pretty wide scope of topics, but does not integrate
with Android, Google or Windows mobile devices.
Your
hub for all the online offerings from Stanford University, Stanford
Online offers self-paced and session based courses. While Coursera
features some courses from Stanford, many classes are only available via
other hosts. Some courses require iTunes, but most are completed in
your web browser. Stanford Online is a great site for high quality
courses, though the topics are somewhat limited compared to sites
partnered with more than one school.
10. Harvard Extension
Like
Stanford Online, Harvard Extension features free online education
courses from Harvard only. This is another excellent source for top
notch course material, though the course variety is less rich than
multi-school sites. Additionally, Harvard Extension allows you to search
for courses by professional certificate. This makes it much easier if
your online education goal includes certification.
11. Open Yale Courses
Open
Yale Courses echoes Harvard Extension and Stanford Online, in that it
offers only courses from Yale. While the site is similarly limited to
topics taught at the school, Open Yale Courses offers a lot of videos of
actual campus lectures. The availability of videos makes the site a
great option if you’re looking for quality courses, but learn better by
watching than by reading.12. UC Berkeley Class Central
Much
like the other schools on this list, UC Berkeley has a variety of free
online education options. The school has slightly fewer courses than the
schools above, but includes some supplementary lectures, webcasts and
RSS Feeds, making it easy to keep up with the topics you choose.
Similarly,
MIT offers a variety of free courses. The school has a comparable
number of courses to the schools above, plus includes very in-depth
course materials on the subjects available. MIT also offers free RSS
feeds, a convenient way to continue learning.
14. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Carnegie
Mellon’s free online education site is comparable with the other
school’s on this list, however, Open Learning Initiative also covers a
smaller range of topics. But for the topics that are covered impressive,
in-depth material is available.
15. Codecademy
Codecademy
is a website dedicated specifically to teaching coding. Where other
coding sites follow an example/practice session workflow, Codecademy
includes a live practice window. This means you can practice coding
while still viewing the lesson material. The courses at Codecademy are
well written and easy to follow and the website is organized very
nicely. Codecademy features a centralized dashboard where you can
monitor your progress, plus organizes lessons into complete modules.
This lets you learn an entire language without needing to pick the next
course manually.
16. Code
Code
is another website focused on coding and app writing. A site with high
quality courses, Code also features learning options for kids. In
addition to kid friendly courses, Code offers free online education
classes on a wide variety of technology topics. These classes include
app writing, robotics and Javascript. Most of the courses are also
geared in a such a way that they can be useful in a classroom setting.
This makes Code a great resource for harder to find coding topics, as
well as various learning settings.
The
podcast page on the University of London website is another great
source for free education. While the courses are limited to podcasts,
the site features podcasts from it’s own campus, as well as eleven
universities in and around London. This gives learners a wide base of
topics and lectures, but still ensures in-depth material.
18. University of Oxford Podcasts
Similar
to the University of London, the University of Oxford features many
different podcasts. Most are public lecture series or lectures from
visiting professors, with several different recordings available. The
advantage to this particular site is that podcasts are organized into
series, making it easy to subscribe to multiple lectures on one topic.
Another good site for thoroughly in-depth lectures.
19. BBC Podcasts
For
the more casual learner, the BBC offers a wide variety of podcasts on
many different topics. Most podcasts are updated weekly, and focus on
everything from finance, to sports, to current events. Through the World
Service line of podcasts, there are also many in different languages.
The focus of these podcasts are less in-depth and theory based, which
may be more accessible to the average person.
20. TED-Ed
Another
great destination for more general learning is TED-Ed. From the same
people that brought you the all encompassing, motivational web series,
comes a site chocked full of educational videos. Most include impressive
animation, and all are ten minutes long or less. Not only is TED-Ed an
excellent site for the curious, it also includes supplemental materials
and quizzes on the videos. This makes the site extremely useful in
formal education settings, as well as in entertaining ways to brush up
on new discoveries and topics.
21. LessonPaths
LessonPaths is
another great tool for those looking for a more usable and convenient
way to access learning material. On this site, users create link
playlists of their favorite learning materials from other sites. Users
then rank these collections, making it easy to find many different high
quality, accessible sources on a given topic.
22. Memrise
Another
impressive free online education site offering ease of use and
convenience is Memrise. Available both on desktop and as an app, Memrise
is a particularly powerful tool if you are studying a language. The
site encompasses many other topics as well, though some of the course
material is user generated content. Part of what makes Memrise
speacial is their integration of games into the learning materials,
mixing learning with entertainment.
23. National Geographic Kids
The
kids site for National Geographic is another site that makes free
online education applicable for younger users. For those looking for kid
friendly education, a large variety of games, puzzles, videos and
photos keeps kids interested on this site. National Geographic Kids
doesn’t organize learning into courses, making materials available by
topic and medium instead. This makes National Geographic Kids a good
option for those looking for a more casual learning environment.
24. Fun Brain
Fun
Brain is another good option for kids who want to learn online, but
focuses on games and fun puzzles. Particularly focused on math and
reading, Fun Brain’s game based approach can be valuable if the child in
question struggles to pay attention. Fun Brain offers rewards and
challenges as well, and is another site aimed at a casual learning
experience for kids K-8.
25. Whyville
Similar
to the sites for kids free online education is Whyville a destination
for preteen online learning. The site includes a variety of social
features, with a focus on learning materials geared for young teens.
Whyville also mixes in educational games, to make the site a well
rounded option for kids too old for simple games, but too young for
heavy reading based material.
source: http://www.lifehack.org
source: http://www.lifehack.org
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