Free Online Education Resources
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This page contains information on where to go for quality, free online education.
Resources on this page should focus on open information that runs on all platforms and that is not locked into any one type of proprietary software.
General
- BBC Learning
- Coursera
- Education Portal Academy
- edx
- Khan Academy
- List of free certificate courses on Open Culture
- Online Courses
- Open Educational Resources on Archive.org
- Merlot
- Ted
- The Open Learning Initiative
- Self-paced courses
YouTube Channels
Educational channels:
- Asap Science - “Your weekly dose of fun and interesting science.”
- Brady Haran’s channels
- Backstage Science - Science Facilities
- Bibledex - Study of the bible (from a not necessarily religious perspective)
- Computerphile - Computer Science & Logic
- DeepSkyVideos - Astronomy
- Favourite Scientist - Scientists talking about scientists
- Foodskey - Food science
- Nottingham Science - Behind the scenes with scientists
- Numberphile - Mathematics
- Periodic Videos - Chemistry
- Philosophyfile - Philosophy
- Psyfile - Psychology
- Sixty Symbols - Physics
- Words of the World - Etymology
- Minute Physics & Minute Earth - “Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science.”
- The Brainscoop - zoological museum
- Vihart — “I’m a professional mathemusician at Khan Academy”
- Vlog Brothers - Two wacky brothers discussing a range of topics
- Crashcourse - The Vlogbrothers cover a range of subjects on this channel
- MentalFloss - Various interesting topics covered by John Green and associates
- Scishow - Scientific news channel (mainly Hank Green)
- Vsauce - Michael Stevens answers some interesting questions on this channel
Free eBooks
Specific Schools
- MIT Open Courseware
- Open Yale Courses
- Stanford Online, classx, Open Classroom, and Engineering Everywhere
- More open education sites
Foreign Languages
Notes
These sites provide free notes for various subjects.