Monday, September 16, 2013

7 great websites for educating yourself online - Readers Digit Article

Missed out on subjects at school? Interested in learning something new? The internet is opening up education to everyone, and now you can be taught by the best educators from the best universities in the world, free. Most won’t get you an actual degree, but they will expand your brain.

  1. Khan Academy - khanacademy.org - Library of over 4100 educational videos viewed over 250 million times.
  2. Coursera - coursera.org - Online degrees and lectures from the best professors worldwide.
  3. TED Talks - ted.com - Videos of more than 1400 talks from the world’s greatest thinkers.
  4. OpenCourse Ware Consortium - ocwconsortium.org - Video courses and lectures from top universities.
  5. iTunes U - apple.com/education/itunes-u - Download or create lectures for iPod, iPhone or iPad.
  6. Wikiversity - en.wikiversity.org/ - Open educational resources and collaborative learning communities from the Wikimedia Foundation.
  7. Textbook Revolution - textbookrevolution.org - Free textbooks on the net.

This is an extract from The Khan Aacademy, originally published in Reader's Digest Magazine July 2013.

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