Bookmarks
BrainStation
Learning for Live:
Full-time courses are available in web development and user experience design. They are 400 hours long, spread over ten weeks. The web development course covers JavaScript, jQuery, Sass, and Bootstrap. Applicants must complete preparatory assignments.
Angular Boot Camp
Learning for Live:
A three-day class on the Angular.js framework. One class is offered for Angular 1.x and one for Angular 2/4+. The course stresses workshop participation. Students should have experience in JavaScript and a DOM manipulation library.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Learning for Live:
Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online and at no charge. Classes can be streamed or downloaded. Courses are focused on engineering and include the courses taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates. There are also advanced options on AI and linear system optimization.
Oxford University Podcasts
Learning for Live:
Oxford University has put many of its lecture series online in the form of podcasts. These free courses typically feature multiple episodes and sometimes multiple professors. You can find everything from biology and gardening to philosophy and business or even global politics, history, and archaeology
Open Yale Courses
Learning for Live:
Yale University makes a broad range of its lectures and classes available through the Open Yale Courses program. Each course includes a full set of class lecture videos featuring Yale professors, as well as course materials including syllabi, suggested readings, exams, problem sets, and answer keys. There were dozens of courses available at the time of writing this and Yale says it regularly rotates available classes and adds new options.
Open Learning Initiative
Learning for Live:
Carnegie Mellon University puts most of its classes online and there’s a free section available to anyone. The “independent learner courses” under its Open Learning Initiative are free for anyone. Once you find a course you want to take, you’ll need to create an account and add it to your list of courses. From there, you get a great dashboard that shows your “Open & Free” course options and will track the status of the classwork you perform.
Open Culture
Learning for Live:
Open Culture is a website that collects online education materials and supports lifelong learning with free classes, audio, and video. The non-profit looks across the Internet to find free learning resources and gathers them so they’re easy for you to browse, sort, and find something you want to learn. It currently lists more than 1,500 free courses, predominantly from universities.
Lifehack
Learning for Live:
Lifehack is a learning tool focused on making the most of your life by “hacking” it to achieve more or accomplish things easier. It offers free assessments, books, and classes plus a podcast video series. Courses revolve around a specific philosophy that the company created to promote a specific type of lifestyle. You can start with free options on things such as how to stop procrastinating and how to be more motivated in your daily life.
iversity
Learning for Live:
Hailed as the “Coursera of Europe,” Berlin-based iversity has partnered with European and international universities to offer academic courses for free. The company has recently added certificates and verification of course completion for most of its classes, allowing students to verify course participation and learnings with an official document. Costs vary and there are a few free options as well
iTunes U
Learning for Live:
If you have Apple products or an account, the company’s iTunes U is a collection of courses and lectures from leading universities. Part of its iTunes software, you can access courses by topic or university. In many cases, you’ll be able to get audio and video of lectures, have access to some books and materials, and even download quizzes with answer keys.
zoolog - science, discovery and corgis
Comic's Collector:
An all-ages comic about a boy, his corgi and their scientific exploration of a world of monsters. Warning: contains science.
Instructables
Learning for Live:
Learning is fun when it’s hands-on is the approach that Instructables takes. This website is designed specifically to showcase projects where people build physical items, including food. You’ll learn fundamental engineering and even advanced electronics. From turning old linens into ropes and old coins into rings all the way to creating drones or coding a 3D game, there’s plenty to discover.
yokoka's quest
Comic's Collector:
Yokoka's Quest is a fantasy webcomic that updates 3 times a week, M/W/F! It's a dual perspective story, following twins Yokoka and Mao on their individual journeys through the world of Cisum, filled with a RPG motif, elemental magic, adventure and drama!