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Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world. Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of. Formal education or not, youll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education. If youre interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years. Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education. Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the sources content.

Science and Health

MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare is a free web-based publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. Tufts OpenCourseWare Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts course offerings demonstrate the Universitys strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities. HowStuffWorks Science More scientific lessons and explanations than you could sort through in an entire year. Harvard Medical School Open Courseware The mission of the Harvard Medical School Open Courseware Initiative is to exchange knowledge from the Harvard community of scholars to other academic institutions, prospective students, and the general public. Khan Academy Over 1200 videos lessons covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, and biology. Open Yale Courses Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. webcast.berkeley Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for on-demand viewing via the Internet. webcast.berkeley course lectures are provided as a study resource for both students and the public. UC San Deigo Podcast Lectures UCSDs podcasting service was established for instructional use to benefit our students. Podcasts are taken down at the end of every quarter (10 weeks Fall-Spring and 5 weeks in the summer). If youre enjoying a podcast, be sure to subscribe and download the lectures. Once the podcast has been taken offline, faculty rarely approve their reposting. Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healths OpenCourseWare project provides access to content of the Schools most popular courses. As challenges to the worlds health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the publics health and their potential solutions. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative No instructors, no credits, no charge. Use these self-guiding Carnegie Mellon materials and activities to learn at your own pace. Utah State OpenCourseWare Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities. AMSER AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. Wolfram Demonstrations Project Wolfram brings computational exploration to the widest possible audience, open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts. Free player runs all demos and videos. The Science Forum A very active scientific discussion and debate forum. Free Science and Video Lectures Online! A nice collection of video lectures and lessons on science

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and philosophy. Science.gov Science.gov searches over 42 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. The National Science Digital Library NSDL is the Nations online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. EnviroLink Network A non-profit organization, grassroots online community uniting organizations and volunteers around the world. Up-to-date environmental information and news. Geology.com Information about geology and earth science to visitors without charge: Articles, News, Maps, Satellite Images, Dictionary, etc. Scitable A free science library and personal learning tool that currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. The site also expects to expand into other topics of learning and education. LearningScience.org A free open learning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science.

Business and Money

MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan is a world-class business school long renowned for thought leadership and the ability to successfully partner theory and practice. This is a subsection of the larger MIT OpenCourseWare site. Investopedia Financial Investing Tutorials A plethora of detailed lessons on money management and investing. U.S. Small Business Administration Training Network The Small Business Administration has one of the best selections of business courses on the web. Topics include everything from starting a business and business management to government contracting and international trade. Most courses take only 30 minutes to complete. VideoLectures.NET (Business) A free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. My Own Business, Inc. Offers a free online business administration course that would be beneficial to new managers and to anyone who is interested in starting a business. This comprehensive course is split up into 16 sessions covering topics like business plans, accounting, marketing, insurance, e-commerce and international trade. UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Business) Rapidly with the addition of nearly 10 new courses every month. Many of our OCW offerings are directed at working adults seeking continuing education, with the option to enroll in instructor-led, for-credit courses, related to the OCW content. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania The Kutztown University of Pennsylvanias Small Business Development Center offers more than 80 free business courses online. Kutztowns courses are individualized and self-paced. Many of the courses feature high-end graphics, interactive case studies and audio streams. Boston College Front Row (Business) Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College. Financial Management Training Center The Financial Management Training Center provides several free downloadable business courses for people who need to learn the finer points of financial management. All courses offered can be taken online; courses include full exams as well as evaluation forms for people seeking Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. The Free Nonprofit Micro-eMBA Free Management Librarys Free Nonprofit Micro-eMBA Program is an especially great resource for students wishing to learn more about nonprofit management, but most of the lessons also apply to general business management. Completion of this program will not result in an MBA degree, but enrollment is free and the material is well structured. Bookboon Free Business e-books Hundreds of free business books online in PDF format.

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TheStreet University If youre just starting out as a stock and bond investor or need a refreshers course, this is the place to learn what you need to know.

History and World Culture

University of Washingtons OpenUW Explore a variety of learning in several free history-centric online courses from the University of Washington. Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Bios Best Biography.coms most popular biographies on notable historical figures. UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Social Science) Rapidly with the addition of nearly 10 new courses every month. Many of our OCW offerings are directed at working adults seeking continuing education, with the option to enroll in instructor-led, for-credit courses, related to the OCW content. Boston College Front Row (History) Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College. MIT OpenCourseWare (History) The MIT History Faculty offers about 70 subjects in the areas of Ancient, North American, European, East Asian, and Middle Eastern history. Wikiversity School of Social Sciences Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. OpenLearn (Arts and Humanities) The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. A Biography of America A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative of Americas story. Have Fun with History A resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History. The USGenWeb Project Free genealogy and family history resources online. MacroHistory and World Report Tell without illusions or ideological restraints the story of our ancestors, our parents and us. World History HyperHistory Navigates through 3000 years of World History with links to important persons and events of world historical importance. American Digital History Online American history textbook. An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.

Law
Duke Law Center for the Public Domain Duke University is counted amongst the best schools in the South. If youre interested in law, Dukes open courseware in that subject area can go a long way towards helping you learn more about the justice system. Intute Law Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Boston College Front Row (Law) Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College. American University Offers a selection of podcasts on a number of different law-related subjects. There is even a very interesting podcast on debt relief and the law. Lewis & Clark Law School Provides a number of podcast from the law school. Subjects include tax law, business law, environmental law and other areas of law. Interesting and insightful lectures on the law. Case Western Reserve University School of Law Offers a number of interesting lectures on different law subjects. These lectures are both podcasts and Web casts. You can look ahead to the coming school year, which already has a number of interesting subjects lined up. Harvard Law School Provides a number of Web casts of law lectures, symposia, panels and conferences. A great collection of relevant information and insights on how the law interacts with current events.

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Stanford Law Provides open courseware via iTunes on a variety of law subjects, including the theory of justice, mobile content distribution, gay marriage, judicial review and privacy protection. The tracks are available for free, but youll need iTunes. Put the lectures on your iPod or iPhone and listen them anywhere. MoneyInstructor Business Law From MoneyInstructor.com provides a look at a number of basics in business law. Learn how to define crimes under business law. Worksheets and curriculums are available for teachers. Ordinary folks will find them useful as well. Wesleyan College Constitutional Law From North Carolina Wesleyan College offers an overview of the U.S. Constitution and the laws springing from it. Online lectures and class notes are included, which can help you develop a strong understanding of the Constitution and how it forms the basis of our laws.

Computer Science and Engineering

VideoLectures.NET (Computer Science) A free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. Wikiversity School of Computer Science and Technology Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. New York State University (US), Computer Science Hundreds of lectures, tutorials and links to educational material. Dream.In.Code Tutorials Lots of computer programming tutorials. MIT OpenCourseWare (Engineering and Computer Science) MIT OpenCourseWare is a free web-based publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. Maine University (US), Fogler Guide to Computer Science An insanely detailed list of computer science resources. FreeComputerBooks.com Free computer, mathematics, technical books and lecture notes. Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies A massive collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science, updated weekly from original locations, more than 3 millions of references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 2000 bibliographies. W3Schools Web-building tutorials, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. FreeTechBooks.com This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Free computer Tutorials Free computer courses and tutorials site. All the courses are aimed at complete beginners, so you dont need experience to get started. Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code Several helpful resources for computer programming beginners. Google Code University Provides sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms.

Mathematics
Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare Various online mathematics classes provided free by Oxford University. UMass Boston Mathematics Various online mathematics classes provided free by UMass Boston. Whatcom Online Math Center Various math lessons provided free by Whatcom Community College. VideoLectures.NET (Mathematics) A free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like

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conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. Wikiversity School of Mathematics Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. AMSER Mathematics AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. Math.com Math.com is dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for students, parents, teachers, and everyone to learn math. Intute Mathematics Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized by subject specialists based at UK universities. Free-Ed College Mathematics Offers a wide range of free online math courses and study programs.

English and Communications

Open Yale Courses (English) Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet. Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work. MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies gives students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical communication and digital media. Merriam-Webster Online In this digital age, your ability to communicate with written English is paramount skill. And M-W.com is the perfect resource to improve your English now. National Novel Writing Month Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Lifewriting A complete text of the 9-week writing class a professor taught for years at UCLA. Guide to Grammar and Writing Grammar and writing techniques, lessons and quizzes. Purdue Online Writing Lab Over 200 free resources including lessons on: writing, research, grammar, and style guides.

Foreign and Sign Languages

BBC Languages Teach yourself a new spoken language online. American Sign Language Browser Teach yourself sign language online. Livemocha Start learning a new language online for free. Learn10 Gives you a language learning habit thats hard to kick. 10 new words; everywhere, every day. One Minute Languages Learn a new language via podcasts that are updated regularly. Mango Languages Over 100 lessons, shown to you in PowerPoint style with interstitial quizzes, to move you through any language without cracking a book.

Multiple Subjects and Miscellaneous

OpenLearn The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. Multiple subjects are covered. Capilano University OpenCourseWare The Capilano University OpenCourseWare site is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. University of Southern Queenslands OpenCourseWare Provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world. YouTube EDU Educational videos on YouTube organized by subject matter.

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LearnHub Test Prep Raise your test scores with free practice tests & counseling on various subjects. iTunes U Hundreds of universities including Stanford, Yale and MIT distribute lectures, slide shows, PDFs, films, exhibit tours and audio books through iTunes U. The Science section alone contains content on topics including agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, ecology and geography. United Nations University OpenCourseWare Showcases the training and educational programs implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations. Brigham Young Independent Study BYU Independent Study now offers free courses in different areas of study. These areas include Family History, Family Life, and Religious Scripture Study, Personal Dev elopement, etc. Use these courses as a starting point for your personal studies or just to add insight to an area of interest. University of Utah OpenCourseWare Provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world. United States Nation Archives The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nations record keeper. Valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your familys history, need to prove a veterans military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you. Wikiversity Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. UMass Boston OpenCourseWare Various online classes provided free by UMass Boston. About U A collection of free online educational courses from About.com. Academic Earth Online degrees and video courses from leading universities. Free-Ed Clusters of courses that support your preparation for todays fastest-growing careers and critical academic disciplines. Connexions A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute. TED Motivational and educational lectures from noteworthy professionals around the world. Intute Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Boston College Front Row Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College.

Free Books and Reading Recommendations

LibraryThing LibraryThing connects you to other people who are reading what youre reading and allows you to see which books are popular in various categories of reading. Textbook Revolution Links to free online textbooks and other educational materials. Book TV This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video. Bookboon Bookboon provides online textbooks for students in PDF format. The free ebooks can be downloaded without registration. Our books are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon. They are financed by a few in-book ads. Scribd Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page. BookYards BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection. Planet eBook Free classic literature to download and share. E-Books Directory Thousands of ebooks on various subjects to download and share. Read Print Library Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.GoodReads Get great book recommendations and keep track of what you want to read. The Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania database with over 30,000 books. Public Literature Thousands of familiar classics, childrens books, plays and poems, as well as books

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by new authors. Full Books Thousands of full-text nonfiction and fiction books. Many Books Free fiction and nonfiction ebooks for your PDA, iPod or ebook reader. Get Free Books Thousands of free ebooks to download. Project Gutenberg More than 20,000 free books from the first producer of free e-books. Bibliomania Thousands of classic books, poems, short stories and plays. Classic Reader Large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories from more than 300 authors. Bartleby Fiction Classic anthologies and volumes. The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List MBA programs dont have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. Books Should Be Free Free audio books from the public domain.

Educational Mainstream Broadcast Media

BBC Learning Online learning, support, and advice. This site offers internal and offsite links to a vast amount of materials. Biography The site holds videos to past interviews and biographies on people in topics that range from Black history to womens history. Book TV This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video. CBC Archives Relive Canadian history through thousands of available radio and television clips. Discovery This channel is home to several different networks that focus on the military, animals, travel, etc. The Discovery site offers a Video of the Day from its home page, a separate online video section, and a Discover Education center where teachers can accumulate materials for K-12 teaching. Its impossible to list all their offerings here, so go discover! History Channel Visit the Video Gallery for a selection on historical topics. Like the Discovery Channel, this network provides many opportunities for you to gain access to information and reference materials. NOVA Watch current science shows or browse by category. PBS sponsors this channel. Research Channel Speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries. Use their Webstreams and an extensive video-on-demand library for research. Weather Channel You can learn about weather all over the world, but the Weather Channel also offers dynamic content based upon seasons and special conditions and a special multimedia and education section.

Online Archives
American Memory The Library of Congress provides extensive multimedia offerings on various topics through their American Memory Collection, including their outstanding Built in America project that showcases historical buildings through photographs. Fathom This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. The archives include online learning resources including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and seminars. Internet Archive Open Educational Resources A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. National Archives Provides primary source materials from NARA along with lesson plans for teaching with those sources. National Climatic Data Center The NCDC, a division of NOAA, maintains climatic archives, including lists of storms in given counties, and records about global extremes, etc.

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The Rosetta Project A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of all documented human languages. September 11 Digital Archive This site uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the 9/11 attacks. U.S. Census Bureau If you think the Census Bureau is all about numbers, you might be surprised to learn about their archived photographs, daily radio features, and more available through their Newsroom.

Directories of Open Education

Google Scholar Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. OpenCourseWare Consortium This site provides a portal to search through hundreds of free courses or to add new courses you know about to the database. iBerry Check out this site for a huge directory of open courseware organized by school and subject matter that can point you in the right direction for any type of learning. Self Made Scholar Directory Free online directory of web-based classes and courses. Please add to the resource list via the comments section if you know of a valuable site we left off the list.
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Mark November 15th, 2010 at 12:39 am Phenomenal! Thanks so much for this. I just started following yall and already have my moneys worth! =) zenstealth November 15th, 2010 at 12:50 am Thank you, thank you so much for posting this article! Bryan November 15th, 2010 at 12:56 am Man, what an awesome resource! Thank you so much for this amazing collection of links. I was previously only familiar with some of the open courseware material, but this provides plenty to learn :). Education = Living Jonah C November 15th, 2010 at 1:07 am Wonderful collection! Thank you! Collin November 15th, 2010 at 1:20 am Thanks so much. This is a phenomenal list. Bookmarked for life. Bill November 15th, 2010 at 2:12 am Non stop learning is the only useful activity in life. If we ever stop learning, there is really no point in continuing. These resources are a great help. I have already subscribed to a few writing courses from the above links. George Julian November 15th, 2010 at 3:47 am Great list, thank you. Id add http://www.dolectures.com to the multiple sources category. Cheers. Dora November 15th, 2010 at 3:47 am Thank you so much for sharing~!

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Rodrigo November 15th, 2010 at 6:30 am Awesome!!!!!! maria November 15th, 2010 at 8:48 am thanks soooooo much for posting this list.its extraordinary!! Bonnie November 15th, 2010 at 8:55 am What a great resource for online education! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this all together. daisy dew November 15th, 2010 at 9:43 am you are a gift. thank you so much! Small November 15th, 2010 at 9:44 am Hi, http://patrickjmt.com/ would be a possible source for mathematics topics. Great list btw. Shirley November 15th, 2010 at 10:24 am Thanks for a great list. I would add http://alison.com Free online courses which include over 100 free courses in Computers, IT Literacy, Languages, Health and Safety and Liberal Arts and Sciences. All these courses are available for free, and are interactive; they contain audio, video, Adobe Flash, online quizzes, assessments and SCORM compliant content. A special mention of How to Start Your Business or Social Enterprise - The Stone Soup Way a free interactive online business course which cover entrepreneurship. http://alison.com/courses/Stone-Soup Ignorance is not bliss : : Got P.M.A.? November 15th, 2010 at 11:07 am [] you want to learn something, heres a great place to start your learning for free. This list is from Marc and Angels blog, which has a plethora of Practical Tips for Productive [] Jackie Tithof Steere November 15th, 2010 at 11:18 am I would like to share links to your site. Do you have a twitter or facebook button? Thanks. Love your stuff.

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Living the Balanced Life November 15th, 2010 at 11:27 am Awesome, awesome list of resources! I will be writing a post soon about continuing your education, and I will definitely link to this! Bernice http://livingthebalancedlife.com/2010/more-you-know-more-you-grow/ Laura November 15th, 2010 at 11:32 am Thank you! What a fantastic list and Im sharing it for this is too good of a gem not to! Bryce Christiansen November 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pm Thats a great list and definitely share worthy. I think another great source for video education on various topics is; http://www.ted.com They arent a replacement for University education but I always come away learning something new. Barbara November 15th, 2010 at 2:57 pm Ok, who else was distracted (if only for a few seconds) by the oh so adorable desktop pic? But ha, yes very informative, Ill be busy for a while Awesome0 November 15th, 2010 at 4:38 pm possibly the greatest link to the greatest links ever! Dia November 15th, 2010 at 10:08 pm Hi marc, Thanks for this list. This is great Tina Marie Frawley November 15th, 2010 at 10:20 pm This is GREAT! I will be sharing this on my blog! Lucy November 15th, 2010 at 10:23 pm This is an fantastic resource! Thanks for compiling. I cant wait to get started. Create My Mind Movie November 15th, 2010 at 11:58 pm Thanks for sharing

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Wow this list is just absolutely FANTASTIC! I can see how it would have taken you years to accumulate. Thank you so much! Im definitely bookmarking this post! Joseph November 16th, 2010 at 6:31 am Thank you So much, You made great effort to prepare this list. Deepthi November 16th, 2010 at 6:36 am Thanks a ton! Looking at the list itself is thrilling. Appreciate your great effort. Wonderful job. Dalila Bailey November 16th, 2010 at 9:36 am This list is amazing. Thank you so much for posting this. I cant wait to use it! Savitha November 16th, 2010 at 10:36 am Awesome list. Appreciate the thought, effort and generosity in compiling and sharing it. Thank you. Kim November 16th, 2010 at 11:00 am Its so wonderful! Thanks a lot! Saurabh November 16th, 2010 at 6:16 pm Marc You are a gift to this world , your posts are the best among the numerous blogs in the web. Not many ppl know about this web site , they spend more time in facebook rather spend it in some useful websites like this. Any ways , keep the good work going. May god bless you for all your efforts. Bryan November 17th, 2010 at 1:13 am This is incredible! The time you took to compile this list is very much appreciated. I agree with (Saurabh). Im very glad that I can come and be enriched rather than on facebook poking someone. I love the Khan academy site. I think everyone should check out the Arithmetic section. Its seems we all forgot how to add and subtract I asked someone to divide 49 by 7 and they had to take out a calculator. 7 x 7 = 49. Thanks again Marc and Angel farouk November 17th, 2010 at 4:45 am wow i like to learn from the internet and these are certainly amazing resources, many thanks

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Ande Waggener November 17th, 2010 at 4:54 am Im bookmarking this one, and I rarely do that for blog posts. Great list! My husband had a head injury 4 years ago and it wiped out his lifetime memories, including nearly all of his education. Hes relearned what he needs for daily life, but hes been talking about expanding his knowledge base, and this list will help tremendously. You just saved us a lot of time. I appreciate it! Rygaudas Guogis November 17th, 2010 at 6:55 am Ive been holding the project of gathering all the quality learning sources in one place on my someday maybe list. And now, when I finally got to make some physical actions to DO it, I open up Your blog and here it is, all complete and, I could say, much better than I could do myself. Your list making abilities are fantastic. In the world where you want everything in bullet points or 1. 2. 3. this skill is really rewarding. Jim Washburn November 17th, 2010 at 3:00 pm Terrific list. Thank you for putting it together. Another good source for free online courses is Einztein.com. dchiquilla November 17th, 2010 at 6:19 pm thanks very useful your post! Pamela November 20th, 2010 at 6:43 pm Wonderful list. <3 <3. Im always looking to learn new stuff and your blog is always the best source to tangent from. Keep up the great work! Dream Innovation November 21st, 2010 at 8:05 pm Very nice introducing the missing aspect that many students in school right now dont understand. Its quite unfortunate how many people dont realize this until after they get out of school, and they couldve been already training their minds, not for the A+, but for the progress of themselves. In fact, Ill bring this little bit. The grading system has clearly failed to educate the youth in what IS important. And thats this, to educate yourself. Weve been trained to pass the tests. Weve been trained to cram loads of information. Weve been trained take on loads and loads of extracurriculars. All at the expense of integrity at times because students are so desperate to get that A. So what kind of people come out of school? People that try to get the job done asap and not put in quality effort and people that cant do much but take tests. We are obviously promoting the wrong idea. Whats your opinion on this, Marc? Badal November 23rd, 2010 at 2:54 am Best compilation anyone would ever want. Thanks a lot of finding all these resources for us! Elizabeth November 23rd, 2010 at 6:24 am
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Wow! This is an amazing resource. Thank you so much! Rares November 29th, 2010 at 2:47 pm Hey hey, thanks for the websites, i visited a few of them and they are very interesting. But can you tell me where i can find the wallpaper from the notebook. I really need it. Thanks Wendy Priesnitz December 3rd, 2010 at 4:57 pm Terrific resource. Thanks for posting it for all the self-educated people of the world. May I share this post with the readers of Life Learning Magazine? Ann Duncan December 4th, 2010 at 1:46 am Can anyone say comprehensive??? What a list! I sent this to my unschooling 14 yr old grandson, who is responsible for educating himself, and he was very glad to get it. Thank you! MaeTrees December 7th, 2010 at 10:03 am Fantastic! I have explored some of these sites with my kids and have them posted on our home school web site but this list significantly enriches our already rich listing of Internet ed resources. No time to do a line by line comparison right now but feel free to roam through the list of resources weve collected on our web site for more gems. Just follow Use the Internet to Learn link on the right side of home page. Thanks for for the gift! https://sites.google.com/site/sterlinghomeschoolacademy/ Jason December 8th, 2010 at 12:15 pm I heard about your blog from a fellow life-hacker and autodidact. Im just beginning to rummage through the links provided in this post, and will continue to do so as soon as final exams are over. As a college student, I adhere to the Mark Twain quote promulgated by F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise: [College is] about getting an education in spite of your schooling. Thanks again, and keep up the good work. Lesa McMahon December 13th, 2010 at 3:24 am Im surprised that you dont know about http://www.khanacademy.org/! This free resource should be at the top of your Mathematics list! Lesa McMahon December 13th, 2010 at 5:40 pm oops. i just saw that you do have Khan Academy on the list. i just didnt notice it because it was listed under the Science category and not the Mathematics category. Khan Academy has way more math

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resources (including online interactive math exercises) than it does science. hypnodude December 20th, 2010 at 2:05 am Another great article, so many places to expand our knowledge and for free too. Liked and tweeted again. My Epic Plot for World Domination in 2011 | The Ripple Effect December 27th, 2010 at 3:39 am [] also gained some great links to free education from Marc and Angels 12 dozen places to educate yourself. A big thank you to those Carnegie Melon Professors who will be teaching me for free next year. [] Tracy collegecultvatr January 2nd, 2011 at 9:36 am Awesome! Thank you so much for these. I will use them, my kids will use them, we will share them. David Jones January 7th, 2011 at 12:43 pm brilliant..thank you! so appreciated. Anon1 January 17th, 2011 at 5:18 pm What a wonderful site!! Rag January 18th, 2011 at 10:02 pm Excellent!!! Thanks for all these educational resources. Really useful to all. pooja January 25th, 2011 at 3:27 am Thanks a ton! This is so resourceful. Harsh January 27th, 2011 at 3:43 pm thanx bookmarked this for reference in future Lennea January 29th, 2011 at 11:47 pm So awesome I have added many to our homeschooling delicious account to come back to thanks for all the great links! Douglas W. Green, EdD February 4th, 2011 at 9:26 am This is an amazing list of resources. Thanks so much. I will be adding this link to the next volume of Dr.

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Dougs Hot Tweets. Also take a lot a my book summaries at DrDougGreen.Com. You may want to add my site to a resource list somewhere. Keep up the outstanding work. TJ Wolfe February 4th, 2011 at 9:33 am Great resource, thank you! Everyone can benefit from this, stay at home moms/dads can learn on the fly, college students can supplement their courses, high schoolers can prepare for campus learning, middle schoolers can search for topics and/or certain schools to keep in mind, elementary students can watch age/skill appropriate content with parental help and, of course, teachers can use this in the classroom! Very nice. Jessy Kate February 7th, 2011 at 12:34 pm Wow, an amazing list, thank you! Id like to add the Peer to Peer University. P2PU is a community and platform for free and open learning. Anyone can propose, teach or take courses, and everything is 100% free. We also have several schools, including the School of Webcraft in partnership with Mozilla, which offers developer training for the open web thats free, open, globally accessible, and powered entirely by peers; as well as the School of Social Innovation. Check it out at http://p2pu.org Danny February 10th, 2011 at 2:38 pm Well, i first have to say thanks for the expansive amount of resources but i now just have to disagree with the notion that ALL education is self taught. I know i may look like a nit-picky prick by mentioning it but why should i care about how i look. (thats a rhetorical ?) my point is that we learn things all the time without choosing to learn them much less seeking them out so to say that all education is self-taught. period is presumptuous and definitive in that it limits education to study and not including reactionary learning or subconscious. otherwise, this is a generous and resourceful access of information that has been provided and for that we should all give you a much deserved thank you. peace Mr Whipple February 20th, 2011 at 7:18 am Sweet! Amit February 21st, 2011 at 9:07 am this is absolutely amazing collection..thanks Ged H February 22nd, 2011 at 6:53 am DAMN another reason for not doing the housework this week this month? this year? THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR GENEROSITY IN SHARING IT! Ahsan February 22nd, 2011 at 9:46 am
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Amazing information! Thank you! Meghashyam Chirravoori February 27th, 2011 at 12:33 am An absolutely stunning list! The fact is that I wasnt even aware that so much knowledge is available in the world for free. I am really, really grateful for finding this webpage So now I have my online library kind of place here where I can sort through so much knowledge for free! Am excited! Lemeechi March 7th, 2011 at 5:52 am This is dynamite! Thanks a trillion for sharing. I will pass on the torch to as many people as possible. Thushaa March 28th, 2011 at 3:42 pm I cant wait to start using sites on this list!! Thank you so much! nash April 15th, 2011 at 10:08 am What an absolute cracker!! Really thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work janice April 21st, 2011 at 4:38 pm never knew i can educate my self in so many other ways . raghudathesh April 25th, 2011 at 10:53 pm Nice job it is a treasure of knowledge source ricahard April 29th, 2011 at 9:17 pm just chanced upon ur site. cant wait to explore. continue the good work. all thumbs up!!!! Blue April 30th, 2011 at 11:11 pm Thank you for sharing these resources! Keep up the fantastic work youre doing, you guys are awesome!!! Nick May 3rd, 2011 at 1:38 pm Long live free education for all! Khan academy has been an incredible resource for me and Ive used it for years now. Amazing what one man can do with his perseverance. Andini Rizky May 6th, 2011 at 6:42 pm

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Awesome. Thank you! Edgar May 12th, 2011 at 3:39 am Great! But you should post some websites about free online musical education like to learn how to read music or play the guitar or something. Arturo Mtz May 12th, 2011 at 11:34 am Thank you very much for this information. Normally in the third (or fifth) world we lack the possibility to collect information for self education (or any education) and we need it to share the planet with a responsible attitude. Ignorance is very bad, not only for the owner of it; but for everybody else Wanda McDowell May 12th, 2011 at 6:08 pm I would like you to consider adding http://www.mathconcentration.com as a math educational resource on your resource page for teachers. Math Concentration not only provides free homework help but it is a community aimed to building strong parental support and and healthy relationships between parents, students and teachers. Ayo Alat May 22nd, 2011 at 6:30 am What a great gift of knowledge! Bless the originator and the e-mail that brought to this to my inbox. Michael May 22nd, 2011 at 4:19 pm http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Its super cool. It can go under math or multiple subjects. Sarah May 28th, 2011 at 1:34 am Wow, this is fabulous! I am definitely all about learning everything one can, and this is an awesome collection! Thanks! Ainura June 27th, 2011 at 12:12 am Thank you so much!

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