05-23-2021, 11:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2021, 11:33 AM by hackonology.)
Knowledge
MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses)
MOOCs (Massively Online Open Courses)
- Coursera – Coursera partners with various universities and makes a few of their courses available online free for a large audience. Founded by computer science professors, so again a heavy CS emphasis.
- edX – Massive open online course platform founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to offer online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience at no charge. Many other universities now take part in it, including Cal Berkeley. Differs from most of these by including “due dates” with assignments and grades.
- Udacity – Outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. Plans to offer more, but concentrated on computer science for now.
- Harvard Open Courseware
- MIT Open Courseware – Initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
- Yale Open Courseware – Provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
- Stanford Open Courseware
- Khan Academy – Free learning tutorials on just about every subject.
- Codecademy
- HackerRank Challenges and contests with a leaderboard to test and develop your programming skills. Requires a solid programming knowledge base.
- Anki, Mnemosyne, Memrise
- Instructables
- INTERNET IS USEFUL
- PCGamingWiki
- Wolfram Alpha
- Project Gutenberg – Primarily public domain.
- OpenLibrary – Download out-of-copyright books, borrow in-copyright books.
- Feedbooks
- SmashWords
- LibriVox – Free audio books
- Podiobooks.com – Free audiobooks mostly from self-published authors.