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.

Credits: Marc Chernoff via themindunleashed.org
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everything one want to learn is online.thank goodness for internet.

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interesting

Now that No.7 reminds me of Yale Cabin Biscuit #JustKidding






Interesting thread!!!

making sense!
bookmark

Thank you for this,the only one I'm interested in is No.5

please does anybody know of any free online degree awarding institution? be it BSc, MBA, MSc, etc

So Nairaland is not included? Your list is very incomplete. Look! Put nairaland before Ifa strike you.

Youtube

I hope my fellow Nairalanders will cease the oppurtunity to visit the aforementioned site. Nairaland suppose to be included because this forum is were I get what I need to know. God bless Nairaland.

CoolKizzy: please does anybody know of any free online degree awarding institution? be it BSc, MBA, MSc, etc

Take a look at http://uopeople.edu/ You may have to copy the link to your browser if it doesn't work here as NL seems to "disable" links sometimes.

eunisam: why not give the link to the site? Long tin

chairman what link do you want again, are you sure u read through this article at all?
Google is your friend you know!

God bless you OP!

lilTunechi: So Nairaland is not included? Your list is very incomplete. Look! Put nairaland before Ifa strike you.

hahaha

13) Nairaland- a site where you get the latest buzz and also get all the know-how on what to do about everything

Mods FP Please @Mynd_44

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Wow! Op God bless u for sharing.. Bookmarking sharply.

Wow this info is priceless! Thankx op

Tired of edjucation

Nice one op...bookmarking!

I'm definitely bookmarking this.

If we could have more E-Engineers, E-Lawyers, E-Bankers, Etc and less E-Warriors and E-Jihadists, Nigeria would be a better place in a very short time.

Great!! Very insightful. Bookmarked too.
However, nothing is free even in Freetown.
Cheers!!

Check out www.edx.org
I've completed 2 online courses (not degrees) from standard foreign universities.

Crack your ribs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z8XZLqIMmw

specialguest: Wow this info is priceless! Thankx op

you welcome.
I hope it makes front page so others could benefit from it :O

alizenbohr: Check out www.edx.org
I've completed 2 online courses (not degrees) from standard foreign universities.

I have completed 7 courses on edx.

Coursera is also an online learning centre where you can choose from a wide range of courses for free but you will need to pay if you want the certificate.
You can search for it on Google and it also has an android app.

I have completed several courses online on different platform but the platform I find most fascinating is edx. They offer several courses in lots of discipline from top universities around the world and issue certificate - not degree. You can read of personal experience with the site if you follow the link below
www.akomst..com/2014/03/my-first-online-edx-certificate.html?m=1

Thx Op 4 d info.
Wen we share information freely n cheerfully, it wil lead us 2 d era we hv long bn hoping for (development)

captainobvious:

you welcome.
I hope it makes front so others could benefit from it :O

It certainly will! Except off course if the mods are anti-learning.
#frontpage #pricelessinfo #virtual_library