All education is self-education. Period.
It
doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a
college classroom or a coffee shop.
We
don’t learn anything we don’t want to
learn.
If you’re 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 source’s content.
1) 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
University’s 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.
Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare –
The
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health’s OpenCourseWare
project
provides access to content of the
School’s most popular courses. As
challenges to the world’s health
escalate
daily, the School feels a moral
imperative to provide equal and open
access to information and knowledge
about the obstacles to the public’s
health
and their potential solutions.
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 and philosophy.
The National Science Digital Library –
NSDL is the Nation’s 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.
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.


2) 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.
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.
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 Library’s 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.
TheStreet University – If you’re just
starting out as a stock and bond
investor or need a refresher’s course,
this is the place to learn what you
need
to know.


3) HISTORY AND WORLD CULTURE
University of Washington’s OpenUW –
Explore a variety of learning in several
free history-centric online courses
from
the University of Washington.
Bio’s Best – Biography.com’s most
popular biographies on notable
historical figures.
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.
American Digital History – Online
American history textbook. An
interactive, multimedia history of the
United States from the Revolution to
the
present.


4) LAW
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.
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.


5) 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 don’t 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.


6) 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 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.
Free-Ed College Mathematics – Offers
a
wide range of free online math
courses
and study programs.


7) 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.
Guide to Grammar and Writing –
Grammar and writing techniques,
lessons and quizzes.


8.) FOREIGN AND SIGN LANGUAGES
BBC Languages – Teach yourself a
new
spoken language online.
American Sign Language Browser –
Teach yourself sign language online.
Learn10 – Gives you a language
learning
habit that’s hard to kick. 10 new
words;
everywhere, every day.
One Minute Languages – Learn a new
language via podcasts that are
updated
regularly.


9) MULTIPLE SUBJECTS AND
MISCELLANEOUS
University of Southern Queensland’s
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.
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.
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.
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 today’s
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.


10) FREE BOOKS AND READING
RECOMMENDATIONS
LibraryThing – LibraryThing connects
you to other people who are reading
what you’re reading and allows you to
see which books are popular in
various
categories of reading.
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.
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.
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.
The Personal MBA Recommended
Reading List – MBA programs don’t
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.


11) 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
women’s 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.
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. It’s
impossible to list all their offerings
here,
so go discover!
NOVA — Watch current science shows
or browse by category. PBS sponsors
this channel.


[12) ONLINE ARCHIVES
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.
The Rosetta Project – A global
collaboration of language specialists
and
native speakers building a publicly
accessible online archive of all
documented human languages.
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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alotofgrace: have you heard about edx and coursera?

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13. NNPC~ corruption.ng

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alotofgrace: have you heard about edx and coursera?

. Tell us about them please.

eemjay17: . Tell us about them please.

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[url]coursera.org[/url]

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I want to educate myself in the same place where a certain Nairalander(9jacrip) was taught that peas are lemon coloured.

iconize: I want to educate myself in the same place where a certain Nairalander(9jacrip) was taught that peas are lemon coloured.

Well, please tell us where pee is used as a reference for the size or capacity of the brain rather than 'pea' as often used.

9jacrip:

Well, please tell us where pee is used as a reference for the size or capacity of the brain rather than 'pea' as often used.

You've completely failed again.

Who calls peas lemon coloured?

Accept your mistake(s) or I'll never allow you rest on NL, until you tell me where I can find lemon coloured peas.

iconize:

You've completely failed again.

Who calls peas lemon coloured?

Accept your mistake(s) or I'll never allow you rest on NL, until you tell me where I can find lemon coloured peas.

Mistake? Really?

Until you can tell us if in normal english pee brain is used or pea brain - to reference brain capacity/size/intelligence.

Rest? Really?

I will run you out of NL, I'm not the usual dude who bows out to show sophistication or cower, I will go to the dirt with you if I have to.

What are you?

9jacrip:

Mistake? Really?

Until you can tell us if in normal english pee brain is used or pea brain - to reference brain capacity/size/intelligence.

I chose to make reference to your brain using pee because it's completely barren.

Okay then! Let's see who wins.

9jacrip the Nigerian planter, where can I find those lemon coloured peas you talked about?

iconize:

I chose to make reference to your brain using pee because it's completely barren.

Okay then! Let's see who wins.

9jacrip the Nigerian planter, where can I find those lemon coloured peas you talked about?

Damn!

Tell me where pee is used to reference the brain!

Since Chinua Achebe and Kenneth Dike, Ibo have suffered a major set back in brain power aspect.

9jacrip:

Damn!

Tell me where pee is used to reference the brain!

Since Chinua Achebe and Kenneth Dike, Ibo have suffered a major set back in brain power aspect.

You've lemon coloured pee for brains, sue me!

9jacrip, tell us where we can find those lemon coloured peas you talked about.

iconize:

You've lemon coloured pee for brains, sue me!

9jacrip, tell us where we can find those lemon coloured peas you talked about.

Lol!

My nigga that quantified brain with pee, I feel sorry for your Father .

9jacrip:

Lol!

My nigga that quantified my brain with pee, because it's barren .

My niggur that called peas lemon coloured...

9jacrip, I've been searching online for pictures of lemon coloured peas but I found none.

Please post a picture.

Thank you!

alotofgrace:



online courses for free....am hooked on programming. lots of universities come up to for them....MIT, Harvard....from UK, france Japan and so on


[url]coursera.org[/url]

[url]edx.org[/url]

nice one, bro!

iconize:


My niggur that called peas lemon coloured...

9jacrip, I've been searching online for pictures of lemon coloured peas but I found none.

Please post a picture.

Thank you!

Retard.

As I have tried to mentally absorb and find a soft landing for your appalling gaffe. Pee to quantify mental capacity, you're a legend.

9jacrip:

Retard.

As I have tried to mentally absorb and find a soft landing for your appalling gaffe. Pee to quantify mental capacity, you're a legend.

9ja, the lemon coloured peas you talked about where can I find them?

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ejiro2130: How abt the school barak Obama lunched for Africans recently
young africa leadership initiative
Yali.org

Don't forget OSHA also, I got my safety certificate frm there for 5k
It saved me more than 30.

Am interested in OSHA how did you go about it..... Please put an insight

ejiro2130: How abt the school barak Obama lunched for Africans recently
young africa leadership initiative
Yali.org

Don't forget OSHA also, I got my safety certificate frm there for 5k
It saved me more than 30.

pls I'm interested in the OSHA, pls put me through it

epaulo: pls I'm interested in the OSHA, pls put me through it

It's very easy
Jst log into www.oshatrain.org
Register as a new student, fill the form n submit
The start taking the classes
At the end of each course u will write the exams
If u score more than 70% then u have pass the course
There are abt 10 course in total
Your certificate will be given to u either in pdf format
Or sent to u by mail
If u want it to be sent u will pay like 22 or 25 dollars

epaulo: pls I'm interested in the OSHA, pls put me through it

It's very easy
Jst log onto www.oshatrain.org
Register as a new student, fill the form n submit
The start taking the classes
At the end of each course u will write the exams
If u score more than 70% then u have pass the course
There are abt 10 course in total
Your certificate will be given to u either in pdf format
Or sent to u by mail
If u want it to be sent u will pay like 22 or 25 dollars

Each class is like 4hrs
Download the material read n take ecams

alotofgrace:



online courses for free....am hooked on programming. lots of universities come up to for them....MIT, Harvard....from UK, france Japan and so on


[url]coursera.org[/url]

[url]edx.org[/url]

.Thanks. i wil be checking the sites out.

eemjay17: .Thanks. i wil be checking the sites out.

uwc

ejiro2130:

It's very easy
Jst log onto www.oshatrain.org
Register as a new student, fill the form n submit
The start taking the classes
At the end of each course u will write the exams
If u score more than 70% then u have pass the course
There are abt 10 course in total
Your certificate will be given to u either in pdf format
Or sent to u by mail
If u want it to be sent u will pay like 22 or 25 dollars

Each class is like 4hrs
Download the material read n take ecams

thanks bro

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