Bookmarks
Better Explained
Learning for Live:
For people who want to learn math and how it is applied in the real world, Better Explained offers interesting classes, articles, and lessons. Individual lessons are generally free and so are online course texts. You can purchase “complete” courses that come with PDF versions of textbooks, video lessons, more quizzes, and invitations to webinars when they occur.
Digital Crafts
Learning for Live:
A sixteen-week immersive program in full stack development. The course covers JavaScript, Python, Node.js, and the MERN stack. Mornings are devoted to classes and afternoons to lab work. Students have to complete sixty hours of preparatory assignments. They can take a rotating elective in the evening.
New York Code + Design Academy
Learning for Live:
Twelve-week courses of on front and back-end web development. The Web Development Intensive course covers JavaScript for the front end and Ruby for the back-end. Web Development Intensive with JavaScript covers similar topics but uses Node.js for the back-end.
Houston Coding Boot Camp
Learning for Live:
The Houston branch of the UT Austin bootcamp. The description differs in some details from the Austin description, mentioning C# and ASP.NET rather than PHP for the back-end technology.
Insight Timer
Learning for Live:
Insight Timer is a mobile app geared toward meditation enthusiasts, but you don't have to be a monk to make use of this tool. Secular courses guide listeners through meditations, thought exercises, and talks on everyday issues like happiness, grief, and insomnia. Some courses are free, but you can pay for any additional courses that pique your interest.
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.
HighBrow
Learning for Live:
HighBrow specializes in short courses that are emailed daily to your inbox. Subjects can be traditional or outside-the-box, including classes like “Introduction to Commodities and Commodity Markets,” "How to Edit Photos in Lightroom," and "How to Improve Your Memory."
ONLC Training Centers
Learning for Live:
courses on JavaScript, web development, Perl, Python, and Java. Individual courses are generally three to five days long and form sequences. The Java courses include advanced topics such as JAX-RS and JAXP. Previous experience is required for some courses.
Academy X
Learning for Live:
Three-month bootcamps on a large range of topics. The average class size is five students. Courses designated as bootcamps cover Java, XML, PHP with MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Adobe PhoneGap, and Allova XML applications. A free retake is allowed with restrictions, and a retake with an 80% discount is allowed to most others.
Make School
Learning for Live:
The Summer Academy is an eight-week program for developers at all experience levels. The majority of the course is spent on developing an application.
Khan Academy
Learning for Live:
This nonprofit offers free online classes that students tackle at their own pace. The classes cover most subjects through high school levels, and some courses dip into early college content.
Udemy
Learning for Live:
Udemy is all about options. Students choose from over 130,000 online courses, which cover a broad range of focuses and make use of more than 57,000 instructors.
General Assembly
Learning for Live:
General Assembly has more than 30 physical campuses, but students can also take online classes taught by certified experts. General Assembly's specialties include technology, data, design, and business.