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Whether you’re five or ninety-five, the internet has a lot to offer. Particularly when the topic is education, the resources on the internet are endless.
Best of all, many high-quality sites are completely free. From history to coding, excellent free online education awaits on the following 25 sites.
Coursera
Coursera is a powerful tool for free online education and includes courses from many top universities, museums, and trusts. This gives the site an extremely wide range of in-depth courses.
Coursera is extremely useful if you’re looking to study many different topics or want courses from different schools and groups.
Khan Academy
Partnering with many post-secondary schools, Khan Academy offers a useable, well-organized interface. Also curating many courses from around the web, Khan Academy offers impressive depth on many different subjects.
Among the more well-known educational sites, Khan Academy is also incredibly usable, which may make it easier to keep learning goals.
Open Culture’s listing
If you are struggling to find exactly the material you are looking for, try Open Culture’s listing of free online education courses. The page highlights 1000 lectures, videos, and podcasts from universities around the world. The site features a lot of material found only on universities’ private sites, all in easy-to-browse categories. This means you can find hundreds of university courses, without having to visit and search each university’s site. Open Culture’s list features courses from England, Australia, Wales, and many state universities around the United States. A very helpful resource for finding many courses in one area of study.
Udemy
Udemy’s free courses are similar in concept to Coursera’s but additionally allows users to build custom courses from lessons.
Working with many top professors and schools, the site mixes the customizable platform of other sites with a heavy emphasis on top-quality content. This is another site however, that mixes free and paid content.
Academic Earth
Another site with courses from many different schools is Academic Earth. Much like the three sites above, Academic Earth brings together top-notch courses from many different sources and focuses on offering a wide variety of subjects.
Academic Earth lists courses by subject and school, so it might be easier to find what you’re looking for.
edX
Another great option for free online education is edX. Also bringing together courses from many different schools, the site has impressive, quality information for everyone. edX covers a great range of topics.
Unlike the previous sites on this list, Alison is a free education site offering certification in some areas. Alison offers courses mainly in business, technology, and health, but also includes language learning courses.
It’s a great option if users need certification for their learning as Alison also offers school curriculum courses
Stanford University
Your hub for all the online offerings from Stanford University, Stanford Online offers self-paced and session-based courses. While Coursera features some courses from Stanford, many classes are only available via other hosts. Some courses require iTunes, but most are completed in your web browser.
While Stanford Online offers high-quality courses, it has somewhat limited topics compared to sites partnered with multiple schools.
Harvard
Like Stanford Online, Harvard Extension features free online education courses from Harvard only. This is another excellent source for top-notch course material, though the course variety is less rich than multi-school sites.
Additionally, Harvard Extension allows you to search for courses by professional certificate. This makes it much easier if your online education goal includes certification.
Open Yale
Open Yale Courses echoes Harvard Extension and Stanford Online, in that it offers only courses from Yale. While the site is similarly limited to topics taught at the school, Open Yale Courses offers a lot of videos of actual campus lectures. The availability of videos makes the site a great option if you’re looking for quality courses, but learn better by watching than by reading.
UC Berkeley
Much like the other schools on this list, UC Berkeley has a variety of free online education options. The school has slightly fewer courses than the schools above, but includes some supplementary lectures, webcasts, and RSS Feeds, making it easy to keep up with the topics you choose.
MIT
Similarly, MIT offers a variety of free courses. The school has a comparable number of courses to the schools above, plus includes very in-depth course materials on the subjects available. MIT also offers free RSS feeds, a convenient way to continue learning.
Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon’s free online education site is comparable with the other schools on this list, however, Open Learning Initiative also covers a smaller range of topics. But for the topics that are covered impressive, in-depth material is available.
Codecademy
Codecademy is a website dedicated specifically to teaching coding. Where other coding sites follow an example/practice session workflow, Codecademy includes a live practice window. This means you can practice coding while still viewing the lesson material.
The courses at Codecademy are well-written and easy to follow and the website is organized very nicely. Codecademy features a centralized dashboard where you can monitor your progress, plus it organizes lessons into complete modules. This lets you learn an entire language without needing to pick the next course manually.
Code
Code is another website focused on coding and app writing. A site with high-quality courses, Code also features learning options for kids.
In addition to kid-friendly courses, Code offers free online education classes on a wide variety of technology topics. These classes include app writing, robotics, and Javascript.
Most of the courses are also geared in such a way that they can be useful in a classroom setting. This makes Code a great resource for harder-to-find coding topics, as well as various learning settings.
University of London
The podcast page on the University of London website is another great source for free education. While the courses are limited to podcasts, the site features podcasts from its campus, as well as eleven universities in and around London. This gives learners a wide base of topics and lectures but still ensures in-depth material.
University of Oxford
Similar to the University of London, the University of Oxford features many different podcasts. Most are public lecture series or lectures from visiting professors, with several different recordings available.
The advantage of this particular site is that podcasts are organized into series, making it easy to subscribe to multiple lectures on one topic. Another good site for thoroughly in-depth lectures.
BBC
For the more casual learner, the BBC offers a wide variety of podcasts on many different topics. Most podcasts are updated weekly and focus on everything from finance to sports, to current events.
Through the World Service line of podcasts, there are also many in different languages. The focus of these podcasts is less in-depth and theory-based, which may be more accessible to the average person.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed stands as another great destination for more general learning. From the same people that brought you the all-encompassing, motivational web series, comes a site chocked full of educational videos. Most include impressive animation, and all are ten minutes long or less.
TED-Ed not only caters to the curious but also incorporates supplemental materials and quizzes to enhance the learning experience of the videos. This makes the site extremely useful in formal education settings, as well as in entertaining ways to brush up on discoveries and topics.
LessonPaths
LessonPaths is another great tool for those looking for a more usable and convenient way to access learning material. On this site, users create link playlists of their favorite learning materials from other sites. Users then rank these collections, making it easy to find many different high-quality, accessible sources on a given topic.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids doesn’t organize learning into courses, making materials available by topic and medium instead. This makes National Geographic Kids a good option for those looking for a more casual learning environment.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain is another good option for kids who want to learn online but focuses on games and fun puzzles. Particularly focused on math and reading, Fun Brain’s game-based approach can be valuable if the child in question struggles to pay attention.
Fun Brain aims at providing a casual learning experience for kids K-8, offering rewards, challenges, and interactive activities.
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