Education Goes Online: 25 Free Online Education Resources

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We learned on Friday that you can now select a YouTube-related course through Pitzer College. But while a course about YouTube is surprising to some, the web is actually a treasure trove of education-related resources, including lots of video lectures, educational wikis and podcasts. The key sites for modern, web-based learning are outlined below - feel free to add more in the comments.

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Courses From Organizations

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Annenberg Media - A host of video lectures ranging from the art of the Wild West to abnormal psychology.

ArsDigita University - ArsDigita was originally a comp sci program from MIT. While it is now shut down, all the coursework was put online.

BBC Learning - Online courses from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

BruinCast - UCLA course lectures.

Chinese University Lectures - Hundreds of lectures from fourteen well known Chinese universities.

iTunes U - Huge repository of course podcasts from well known universities.

Learning from YouTube - Pitzer College lectures on YouTube (read more here).

MIT OpenCourseWare - Classes on anything from history to urban studies, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT World - Tons of lectures from different speakers at MIT.

MITE AP Courses - Free Montrey Institute AP courses.

Open Learning Initiative - Learn engineering, reasoning, chemistry, and much more from Carnegie Mellon University.

Project Gutenberg - Thousands of free eBooks, including many course textbooks.

Sofia - Take CC-licensed courses from small colleges.

SWTC CourseCasts - Lectures on everything from debt to microbiology, from Southwest Wisconsin Technical College.

The Open University OpenLearn - Great Britain's first open learning university offers free courses from health care to William Wilberforce.

UC Berkley Webcasts - Get audio and video netcasts from one of the best known universities in the country.

UChannel - Princeton-sponsored online lectures.

Utah State University OpenCourseWare - Learn everything from theatre production to cattle management from Utah State University.

W3Schools - Tons of free online web developer tutorials.

Western Kentucky University Distance Learning Podcasts & VODcasts - Read, listen to, and watch lectures from WKU.

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User Submitted Courses

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Connexions - Hundreds of user submitted courses on everything from mathematics to humanities.

Google Video Educational Genre - Wide variety of user created videos uploaded to Google Video.

Internet Archive Open Educational Resources - A huge multitude of courses with categories ranging from .NET programming to Chinese literature.

Scholarpedia - Similar to Wikipedia, but with articles written by "experts" chosen by the community.

Wikibooks - Thousands of textbooks written in over 40 different languages.