Resources: Free Reputable Online Learning Sites

Last updated: July 15, 2013

For more resources (and an even more comprehensive list), check out this Mashable article and this Wired article.

Free Sites:

• plato.stanford.edu Online philosophy encyclopedia based at Stanford. Each entry is written by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries are refereed by members of a distinguished Editorial Board. 

• khanacademy.org What started as an interstate youtube tutorial for a financial analyst's little cousin has blossomed into one of the most impressive online educational systems to date.

• TED.com Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Warning: danger of addiction. TED is incredible.

• etymonline.com An online etymological dictionary of English, with all roots traced as far back as Proto-Indo-European. Created by some middle-aged guy in Pennsylvania. So well-done, my Linguistics professors at Dartmouth told me it was okay to use and cite as a source in academic papers.

• coursera.org Online courses from top U.S. colleges and universities. Free and open to the public. Stanford, Princeton, Caltech, and many others.

• MIT OpenCourseWare Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.

• ecorner.stanford.edu Stanford's Entrepreneurship corner, with videos of speakers and panels from the heart of all the world's entrepreneurship: University Ave in Palo Alto.

• iTunes U Available both through the general desktop iTunes app and a mobile, iTunes U-
  specific app, this repository claims to be "the world’s largest online catalog of free education content from leading institutions." Not available on Android...go figure.

• List of Cognitive Biases (Wikipedia) - Totally rad

• List of Fallacies (Wikipedia) - Totally awesome

Paid Sites with low fees:

• Lynda.com For a $25 monthly fee, get access to nearly 2000 online courses.

• uDemy.com (paid, many courses under $50, most under $300) Here, you can both teach and learn online. Thousands of courses.

Others:

• Techpack.acm.org (paid, enterprise-level) Integrated learning packages from the Association for Computing Machinery covering various technical areas in computer science and technology. Authored by expert teams of IT practitioners and researchers (including major university professors).