Free Learning Resources
Looking for stuff to learn? Learning has never been as easy as it is now. No where in recorded history has learning been so accessible to people, thanks to the Internet. The internet offers a boundless universe full of galaxies, hundreds of thousands of them, that contain free, formal and less formal, educational material.
Here are just a few:
World Lecture Hall. Free online course material and access to lecture notes. From University of Texas at Austin.
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
Free Radio, Television and Journalism courses from the BBC.
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
Online computer training tutorials for programs such as Dreamweaver and Photoshop:
http://www.trainingtools.com/
Free courses on a variety of subjects:
http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/FreeEdMain01.asp
Free courses from MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Free online business courses from the SBA:
http://www.sba.gov/training/courses.html
Free online courses and reading groups at Barnes and Noble University.
http://university.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?nhid=bn
The official learning and development center of the U.S. Federal Government.
http://www.usalearning.gov/USALearning/
Free online Bible study lessons:
http://www.biblestudylessons.com/
Free courses from the University of Washington:
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
Free math courses online.
http://www.purplemath.com/
Free online study guides at SparkNhttp://www.sparknotes.com/otes:
Free University Project. Study for the CLEP general eduction subject exams.
http://www.freeuniv.com/
Free study materials at Pink Monkey.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp
Free online video courses on a number of subjects. I love these!
http://www.learner.org/index.html
Math For Morons:
http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/home.html
Geography Lessons Online:
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geg101i/home.htm
Free FEMA web courses. You can get credit for these through a couple of community colleges.
http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp
Online Geography Text Book:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fun…/contents.html
Introduction To Sociology. Online text book.
http://www.wwnorton.com/giddens4/cha…r1/welcome.htm
Free Bible studies online. Can be transferred to for-credit college degree through Ames Bible College later.
http://www.amesbible.org/
Free online learning provided by Columbia University:
www.fathom.com
Free Genealogy courses From BYU:
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm
Tufts Open Courseware:
http://ocw.tufts.edu
Utah State University Open Courseware:
http://ocw.usu.edu
Johns Hopkins Open Courseware:
http://ocw.jhsph.edu
The Internet Public Library:
www.ipl.org
Great Books Online:
www.bartleby.com
Project Gutenberg. Free e-books available for download.
www.gutenberg.org
Google Scholar. Google makes available a database of academic articles and e-books.
http://scholar.google.com
Fulbright Open Courseware:
http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/fetpocw.cfm
Kyoto University Open Courseware:
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
Free Online Language courses:
http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
Free Bible and Biblican archeology courses:
http://www.apologeticscourses.com/
Suite101. Free continuing education courses.
http://www.suite101.com/suiteu/
Free general interest courses from About.com
http://u.about.com/
Learnwell.org. Take courses for free for personal interest, or pay $8 per contact hour for CE credit.
http://www.learnwell.org/
Land-Grant Training Alliance. Free online computer training courses. No longer updated.
http://www.lgta.org/lessons.html
A course on bats from Fathom
http://www.fathom.com/course/21701775/index.html
Open Courseware Directory:
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eiberry/html/ies.htm
Sofia Free Intellectual Assets:
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm
http://medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm
http://allnurses.com/Nursing_Continu…n/Online_CEUs/
http://www.cybernurse.com/ceu.html
Other free nursing CEUS at:
http://www.powerpak.com
Free courseware for pharmacists, nurses, and physicians
Another site where you can obtain lots of free CEUS is:
http://www.pain.com/sections/professional/index.cfm
All in area of pain control.
These sites save nurses a ton of money.
Others include:
http://www2.nursingspectrum.com/CE/Self-Study_modules/
offers 1-4 free courses a month.
For free NBCC( For Counselors) ceus ( hard to find free ones) go to:
http://www1.mentalhealthcme.com/TopicReq?
Topics include suicide prevention, tobacco cessation, addictions, genetics etc.
and at http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/how.htm#education
will find some free courses for ceus needed approved by:
The following online courses available on this site have been approved for credit from the following accrediting bodies:
National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
National Association of Social Workers
National Board of Certified Counselors
NAADAC – The Association for Addiction Professionals
Topics include bullying, substance abuse , domestic violence.
First aid and CPR:
http://www.firstaidweb.com/index.php
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/
http://www.cpr-pro.com/first_aid_resources.html
Free High School courses for Florida residents.
http://www.flvs.net/educators/fact_sheet.php
Free online high school for Minnesota residents:
Free Online High School For select California Residents:
Free Online High School for Colorado residents:
http://monte.k12.co.us/ola/index.htm
Online library and study resource aimed at high school students:
http://www.worldwideschool.org/
Verizon Literacy Campus. Online literacy courses from Verizon.
http://www.literacycampus.org/course/index.asp
Free IT courses:
http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=666
School For Champions. Business and Science courses.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/default.htm
Online chats and speeches from Harvard:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/
Journalism training courses from News University. Offered by the Poynter Institute. Requires registration. Most courses are free. Some have a charge.
Community Dispatch – service which lists free online courses, some of them for CEU credit.
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/…_index_3.shtml
Free online course in Arabic:
http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/
Free courses in a variety of topics:
Free online course about starting a business and writing a business plan. The course is free, but they charge for a textbook
http://www.myownbusiness.org/course.html
Free online course in Modern Icelandic.
http://www.icelandic.hi.is/coursetest.php
THIS IS COOL! Create your own online course. Free software!
Free Jewish studies online:
Research Channel, educational videos available online.
http://www.researchchannel.org/program/ptitles.asp
not courses, but video and powerpoint files on Immunology, Parasitology, Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology
just scroll down
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/video.htm
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/welcome.htm
UPenn Library
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Open Source Text Books. Free access to textbooks online:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Internet Archive. Open-access text archive containing many, many text books and other “great books”.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Berkeley
UIUC
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/online/coursedemos.php
Regents Exam Study Prep:
http://regentsprep.org/regents.cfm
Learn PowerPoint, Excel and Access:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/Tutorials/
Free courses for airplane pilots:
http://www.aopa.org/asf/online_courses/
Various computer-related business courses from Hewlett Packard:
http://h30187.www3.hp.com/all_course…33dc25cd69c092
Free Online courses for Hurricane Katrina victims:
http://www.sloansemester.org/
Free online art tutorials:
http://www.wetcanvas.com/
Online art course:
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/mainmenu.htm
Free homeschool art lessons:
http://www.homeschoolarts.com/main.htm
Learn ballroom dancing online!
http://www.dancetv.com/tutorial/index.html
Librarian Chick – Free Online Learning Resources
College-Cram.com – Social Studying Network with notes
Schoolr.com – neat online study resource
University of Washington
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
http://courses.washington.edu/benefit/FIT100/
Free IT courses:
http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=666
free audio books: listen online, download, or burn.
Tons of classic American and English literature.
www.librivox.org
Free books
Thinkwell teaches lesson on calculus, algebra, biology, and chemistry. They are high quality, descriptive lessons.
http://www.mindbites.com/person/3839-Thinkwell
Free Marketing Courses:
http://education-portal.com/articles…es_Online.html
Free online media courses:
http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_list.aspx
http://www.ehow.com/how_2151299_free…-training.html
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/OC0700522/
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2773
http://www.dantei.org/tourism/index.php
http://education-portal.com/articles…on_Online.html
The Basics of Screenwriting
http://www.fathom.com/course/21701762/index.html
Various filmmaking courses
http://selfmadescholar.com/classes.php?tag=film
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Filmmaking
http://forum.wgbh.org/node/247
Thousands of free video lectures from the world’s top scholars. Academic Earth – http://www.youtube.com/edu
http://justmathtutoring.com/ – Calc I,II, III and some Diff equations. Also has some Trig and algebra.
http://www.khanacademy.org/ – Tons of videos not only relating to math.
OpenLearn – free online learning from The Open University
McGraw-Hill: You can also access electronic versions of McGraw-Hill textbooks online. Some of these sites are really full of all kinds of great stuff and incldue everything but the actual full text (you have to pay for that). They don’t advertise this or link to the free sites very well, but you can do Google searches to get to them like this:
“keyword keyword” site:.highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/
Don’t forget:
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Google books http://books.google.com/
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
YouTube EDU – Thousands of free video lectures available through a new service provided by YouTube.
Remember, if these courses do not offer credit, they do offer an opportunity to learn something new. You can then take that knowledge and try to get credit for it through CLEP/Dantes or Prior Learning Assessment.
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