Useful websites for reference

Over 175 Free Online Educational Resources

1.Top Picks

2.Universities and Higher Education

3.General Collections

4.How-to & DIY

5.Studying with Peers

6.Online Books, eBooks, & Journals

7.Computers, Software, & Programming

8.Science & Mathematics

9.Logic, Words, & Memory

10.Languages

11.Music

12.History

13.Business, Finance, & Investing

14.Food, Nutrition, & Cooking

15.Survival Tips

16.Other

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1. Top Picks

• Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/
• Future Learn - Open Online Courses - https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/free-online-courses-with-certifications-september-2020
• Academic Earth – Online courses from the world’s top scholars http://academicearth.org/
• TED – Technology, Entertainment, & Design http://www.ted.com/
• MIT Open CourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
• Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/
• About U. – Collection of free online courses from About.com http://u.about.com/
• Wikiversity http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
• YouTube EDU http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400
• The Open University – Study at the OU http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
• University of the People http://www.uopeople.org
• University of Reddit http://ureddit.com/
• Open Culture – The best free cultural & educational media on the web http://openculture.com/
• VideoLectures – Exchange ideas & share knowledge http://videolectures.net/
• CosmoLearning – Free educational website with thousands of courses & documentaries http://www.cosmolearning.com/

2. Universities and Higher Education

• Lecture Fox – Free university lectures http://lecturefox.com/

• More Open Courses: Open Courseware Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/

• Harvard Extension School – Computer Science & Technology http://computerscience1.tv/2010/spring/

• Johns Hopkins University http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
• Kaplan University http://ocw.kaplan.edu/
• Notre Dame http://ocw.nd.edu/
• Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study http://video.ias.edu/all
• Tufts http://ocw.tufts.edu/ Utah State http://ocw.usu.edu/
• Google in Education http://www.google.com/edu/index.html
• ArsDigita University – Computer science and math lectures http://aduni.org/courses/

• UC Berkeley Webcast – Central service for online video & audio for learners around the globe http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ UC Berkeley Video Courses – Free education online http://education.jimmyr.com/

• Capilano University http://ocw.capilanou.ca/
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
• Delft University of Technology http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/
• Rice University Connexions – A place to view and share educational modules http://cnx.org/
• Stanford on iTunes U – Stanford-related digital audio content http://itunes.stanford.edu/content/overview.html
• UC Irvine http://ocw.uci.edu/ UC San Diego Podcasts http://podcast.ucsd.edu/
• University of Chicago’s Mind Online – Thought-provoking samples of critical thinking & debate http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia
• University of Colorado, Colorado Springs http://www.uccs.edu/~math/vidarchive.html
• University of Massachusetts http://ocw.umb.edu/
• University of Michigan http://open.umich.edu/education University of Southern Queensland http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Sydney – Podcast episodes http://sydney.edu.au/podcasts/2011.php
• University of Virginia – Podcasts & webcasts http://www.virginia.edu/uvapodcast/
• University of Washington – Computer Science & Engineering http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/course-webs.html Utah Valley University – Online courses & open educational resources http://open.uvu.edu/
• YouTube Channels: Stanford http://www.youtube.com/stanford UC Berkeley http://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley
• University of New South Wales http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning
• Yale http://www.youtube.com/yalecourses

3. General Collections

• Free Video Lectures – 800+ Online Courses and 19,000+ Videos from Top 30+ Universities on 35+ Categories http://freevideolectures.com/
• 100 Intro Open Courses on Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Learn http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/05/12/100-intro-open-courses-on-everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-learn/
• Annotum (formerly Google’s Knol) http://annotum.org/
• IncrediCampus – Lectures and preparation/admission advice for college & graduate schools http://www.incredicampus.com/ Learners TV – Thousands of downloadable video lectures on liberal arts, science, engineering, and more http://www.learnerstv.com/
• Online Education Database – 200 free online classes to learn anything http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything
• Infoplease – All the knowledge you need http://www.infoplease.com/
• MERLOT – Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/
• 101 Online Self-improvement Resources http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/101-self-improvement-resources/

4. How-to & DIY

• WikiHow – The how-to manual that you can edit http://www.wikihow.com/
• How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
• Wonder How To http://www.wonderhowto.com/categories/
• Instructables http://www.instructables.com/
• Make Magazine http://www.makezine.com/
• How-to Help & Videos for Dummies http://www.dummies.com/
• VideoJug – Get good at life http://www.videojug.com/
• How to Create a Book in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books
• Let’s Make Robots http://letsmakerobots.com/ ------------------------------------

5. Studying with Peers

• Open Study – Study together http://openstudy.com/
• P2P University – Learn anything with your peers http://p2pu.org/en/
• Study Blue – Your digital backpack http://www.studyblue.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. Online Books, eBooks, & Journals

• Google Books http://books.google.com/
• WikiBooks – Open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Planet eBook – Home of free classic literature http://www.planetebook.com/about.asp
• Open Book Project http://openbookproject.net/ The Free Library http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Many Books – Ad-free eBooks http://www.manybooks.net/
• WorldCat – Collections & services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide http://www.worldcat.org/
• iBiblio – The public’s library and digital archive http://www.ibiblio.org/
• LibriVox – Free public domain audiobooks http://librivox.org/
• The Assayer – Web’s largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free http://theassayer.org/
• Amazon.com Free eBook Collection http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_85650291_15?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011
• Scribd – Reading and publishing evolved http://www.scribd.com/
• Textbook Revolution – Student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
• eReaderIQ – Recent non-public domain freebies & price-drop alerts http://www.ereaderiq.com/
• Longform – New and classic non-fiction articles curated across the web http://longform.org/
• Flatworld Knowledge – The first and largest publisher of free & open textbooks http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

7. Computers, Software, & Programming

• W3Schools – The world’s largest web development site http://www.w3schools.com/
• Google Code University http://code.google.com/edu/
• The New Boston – Step-by-step tutorials for multiple coding languages http://thenewboston.org/
• UDacity – CS 101 http://www.udacity.com/
• PHP Academy http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy
• Better PHP http://www.youtube.com/betterphp
• NetTuts+ – A large collection of coding tutorials http://nettuts.com/
• Tutorial Guide – The site for all your tutorial needs http://www.tutorialguide.net/
• Codecademy – Fun & interactive way to learn how to code http://www.codecademy.com/
• Free Technology Academy – High quality educational material based on free software & open standards http://ftacademy.org/
• Higher Computing for Everyone – Writing basic programs http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/
• HTML 5 Please http://html5please.us/
• Rails for Zombies http://railsforzombies.org/
• Ruby Warrior – Open source game to teach Ruby language http://www.trybloc.com/courses/ruby-warrior/chapters/beginner#/1
• Got API – Documentation search engine http://start.gotapi.com/
• Lynda – Online software training videos http://www.lynda.com/
• Intro to Linux http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/bbnkp/ive_tinkered_in_ubuntu_before_but_its_the_primary/c0lzpwk
• Stack Overflow – Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers http://stackoverflow.com/
• DZone – Fresh links for developers http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html
• Photoshop & Graphics: Tutorial Hero – Photoshop & Flash tutorials http://www.tutorialhero.com/
• PSD Tuts+ http://psd.tutsplus.com/
• Photoshop Tutorials http://photoshoptutorials.ws/
• Graphic Tutorials http://www.graphictutorials.net/
• Photoshop Pack Graphic Design Resources http://www.photoshop-pack.com/
• PSD FanExtra Tutorials http://psd.fanextra.com/category/tutorials/

• Vandelay Design – Photoshop Tutorial Hall of Fame http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-tutorial-tutorials/ Grokking the GIMP http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

• Video CoPilot – Tutorials for VFx & motion graphics http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

8. Science & Mathematics

• Scirus – The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web http://www.scirus.com/
• Cite Seer X – Access scientific and scholarly knowledge http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
• getCited – Academic database, directory, & discussion forum http://www.getcited.org/
• National Science Digital Library – Explore, share, create http://nsdl.org/
• Science Magazine Podcasts http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/podcast/
• National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning – Science, Engineering, & Technology http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/
• KQED’s Quest – Explore science, nature, and environment stories from Northern California and beyond http://science.kqed.org/quest/
• Freelance Teacher – Videos on physics, chemistry, math, & biology http://www.freelance-teacher.com/videos.htm
• FHSST – Free high school science texts in physical sciences & math http://fhsst.org/
• cK-12 Flexbooks http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
• Paul’s Online Math Notes http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
• Reddit’s List of Useful Online Math Resources http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bqbex/lets_list_all_the_useful_free_online_math/
• Math, Better Explained http://betterexplained.com/
• Astronomy & Outerspace: Space Engine – Free space simulation software http://en.spaceengine.org/
• Google Sky http://www.google.com/sky/
• NASA for Students http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
• Scale of the Universe – Interactive Flash Animation http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/
• Statistics: Vassar Stats – Concepts and applications of inferential statistics http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html
• StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
• Connexions Collaborative Statistics http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/
• Handbook of Biological Statistics http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statintro.html

9. Logic, Words, & Memory

• Mind Tools – Memory improvement techniques http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html
• The Nizkor Project – List of logical fallacies http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html
• Wikipedia’s List of Logical Fallacies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
• Wikipedia’s List of Figures of Speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
• Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetorictoolkit/Tool_Kit_for_Rhetorical_Analysis.htm
• KnoWord – Expand your vocabulary http://knoword.org/
• Vocabulary.com – Learn new words & explore language http://www.vocabulary.com/
• Brain Workshop – A Dual N-Back Game http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
• Argument Mapping Tutorials http://austhink.com/reason/tutorials/
• Philosophy Bites – Podcasts of top philsophers http://www.philosophybites.com/ ------------------------------------

10. Languages

• Basic Composition – Reading & Writing http://www.basiccomposition.com/
• BBC Languages – Beginner courses in multiple languages http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
• Foreign Service Institute Language Courses http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php
• Language Guide – Foreign language vocabulary, grammar, & readings http://www.languageguide.org/
• eLanguage School – Free foreign language lessons online http://www.elanguageschool.net/
• Free Online Language Courses via About.com http://distancelearn.about.com/od/onlinecourses/a/freelanguage.htm
• DuoLingo – Learn a language for free & simultaneously translate the web http://duolingo.com/
• Babel Nation – Learning languages online for free http://www.babelnation.com/
• Transparent Language – Language learning software & resources in over 100 languages http://www.transparent.com/language-resources/languages.html
• Survival Phrases – Learn essential travel phrases, tips, and insights http://survivalphrases.com/
• Talk to Me in Korean http://talktomeinkorean.com/
• Chinese Toolbox – Software for learning Chinese through reading http://www.chinesetoolbox.com/
• LiveMocha – World’s largest language learning community http://www.livemocha.com/
• American Sign Language (ASL) University http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lesson01.htm
• Handspeak – Sign language http://www.handspeak.com/
• Signing Savvy – Your sign language resource http://www.signingsavvy.com/index.php

11. Music

• Music Theory – Lessons, exercises, & tools http://www.musictheory.net/
• Ear Training & Music Theory Software http://www.trainear.com/
• Basic Music Theory http://www.howmusicworks.org/
• About.com Music Education – Music theory http://musiced.about.com/od/musictheory/u/musiced_musictheory.htm
• Teoria – Music Theory Web http://teoria.com/
• Ultimate Guitar – Lessons, techniques, & styles http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/
• Justin Guitar – The best guitar instruction on the web http://www.justinguitar.com/
• Chorder – Chord fingering and guitar resources http://www.chorder.com/guitar-chords/
• Funk University – Assembly of Music’s Finest http://www.thefunkuniversity.com/

• Play Bass Now – Lessons, licks, and low notes http://playbassnow.com/

• How to Play Piano http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca/

12.History

• Teacher Resources – Western Civilization (52 half-hour video programs) http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html

• Metropolitan Museum of Art – Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

13. Business, Finance, & Investing

• Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/
• Google Advisor https://www.google.com/advisor/home
• Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
• MarketWatch by WSJ http://www.marketwatch.com/
• Main Street – Business & financial headlines & advice http://www.mainstreet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------

14. Food, Nutrition, & Cooking

• Good Eats Fan Page http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/GEFP/index.htm
• Jamie’s Home Cooking Skills http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/
• Chef Todd Mohr’s Web Cooking Classes (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/user/ChefToddMohr
• Nutrition Data – Self nutrition data; know what you eat http://www.nutritiondata.com/
• Nutrition.gov – Smart nutrition & practical tips http://www.nutrition.gov/
• Choose My Plate via USDA http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
• The World’s Healthiest Foods http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php
• Calorie King http://www.calorieking.com/
• Start Making Choices – Simple ideas for living healthier on a budget http://www.startmakingchoices.com/index.jsp
• Eat Right Nutrition Tips http://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=206 ------------------------------------

15. Survival Tips

• Off Grid Survival – Wilderness and urban survival skills http://offgridsurvival.com/
• Backwoods Magazine – Self reliance and self sufficiency http://www.backwoodshome.com/index.html
• Survival Topics – Your online survival kit http://www.survivaltopics.com/
• Wilderness Survival – Free info covering all aspects of survival http://www.wilderness-survival.net/
• Discovery’s Worst-Case Scenario Video Clips http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/worst-case-scenario/ ------------------

16. Other

• Advanced Yoga Practices – Directory for Main Lessons http://www.aypsite.com/MainDirectory.html

• Creative Live – A live, worldwide creative classroom http://www.creativelive.com/