TIL that I saved a 13 year old post from the old place that lists all the free web learning courses. He updated it for quite a while. Why don't we fix it?
General Sites:
Schools and Universities:
- University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit
- MIT Lectures
- Carnegie Mellon
- Johns Hopkins
- 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 Chicago
- University of New South Wales
- Open Course Ware Finder
- Open Course Ware Consortium
- University of the People
- P2P University - “Learn anything with your peers” (recommended by johndbritton via PM)
Other General Sites:
- OpenStudy - This site is highly recommended. The CEO is a fellow redditor and all around nice guy. OpenStudy is partnered with such institutions as MIT OpenCourseWare and Yale Open Course, and includes 80,000 users from 1600 schools. For more info, check out this TechCrunch.com article. (recommended via PM)
- Wikiversity
- Youtube Edu
- 100 Best Intro Courses
- Khan Academy
- Open Culture
- TED
- Cosmo Learning
- Academic Earth
- Free Video Lectures
- More Video Lectures
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Freelance-Teacher
- National Programme on Tech Enhanced Learning
- Chegg Flashcard Maker
- WikiHow
- How Stuff Works
- Wonder How To
- Better Explained
- TeachMateAI
- Mixergy - “Where entrepreneurs teach” requires E-mail address (recommended by AndrewWarner via PM)
Specialized Sites:
Computer Related-Programming & Web Design
- Android Developer guides ****old site
- Learn about Linux
- Free Technology Academy Archive - closed
- University of Washington CSE
- Lynda.com-check your library for free access
- Web Building Tutorials
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum
- Stack Overflow (Question Site)
- D Zone (Question Site)
- VideoCoPilot - Tutorials for Adobe After Effects (recommended by Dsch1ngh1s_Khan via PM)
- Nettuts - Web development tutorials (recommended by Malpercio via PM)
- Raspberry Pi (for kids but some of us need that)
Graphic, Art, Design, Video, etc. (most have lots of free tutorials on site or on youtube
- Krita Paint Program
- Blender 3D Graphics & Building, Animation, Sculpting & Video
- Unity Video Game Engine
- Unreal Video Game Engine
- Make Human
- DaVinci Resolve-Video
- Pencil 2D-animation
Music:
- Teoria - Classical Music Theory (recommended by WhatYouGive via PM)
- Funk University
- Piano Lessons-scroll for free videos
- Music Theory - Trainear.com
- Music Theory - MusicTheory.net
- Guitar Lessons at Ultimate-Guitar
- 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:
- Languages from BBC
- FSI Language Courses
- Duolingo - “Learn language for free and translate the web” (recommended by TychePsyche via PM with associated TED Talk)
- Mango-check your library for free sub
Cooking/Food:
- Cooking Coarse (Youtube Search Summary)
eBooks/Online Books/Academic Journals:
- Project Gutenburg
- Planet eBook
- The Free Library
- Google Books
- Open Book Project
- WikiBooks
- Using Open Edu Resources - eBook (.pdf)
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - eBook
- WorldCat - Worldwide Library Catalog
- Cornell University - arXiv.org
- Online Library - ibiblio
- Librivox - A free audio book website (recommended by city_lights and thecheese_cake via PM)
- The Assayer - “The web’s largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free.” (recommended by grbgout via PM)
Other Subjects:
- The Math Motherload
- Help for Teachers
- Psychoactives
- Philosophy
- Make Magazine
- Self Improvement - 101 Linked Resources
- Custom Action Figures
- Exercise
- Yoga
- Raising Chickens
- Investing
- Instructables
- [Physics for Future Presidents](muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/PffP.htmll
The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.
I will continue and add/edit/refine this list as my time permits. Please send me a message if you spot a broken link, have general grievance with some sort of error, or have a good link we can add.
Thank you Everyone!
Edit: It looks like this thread has been archived, so if anyone has any more suggestions please PM me. I plan to work on this list and add annotations for each link and maybe do some better organizing. When that is done I will post it again to try to get all the new links that have sprung up over the last year and to allow comments to be made again.
Source: old.reddit.com/…/reddit_lets_compile_a_list_of_th…
Edit 1: Cooking is really light, it’s only a search for videos on youtube. If anyone has any recs, that would be awesome.
Edit 2: I took off anything that you have to pay for unless some people can get it through their local library. I’ve gone through them all, updated 08-05-23