Free online education
Online education has continued to improve, and I didn't discover just how many great resources were out there until about a year ago. This isn't going to be a long post because I want to encourage you to visit each site and see what they have to offer.My passion has always been to be a life long learner...a scholar if you will. The world is an interesting place, and I want to know everything about it. That is quite a lofty goal, so of course I am going to focus on the areas that interest me most before branching out to the less desirable fields...
The great thing about the following websites is they are all free to sign up, and they all offer quality free courses.
Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/) allows you to browse/filter by subject and by college it is offered by. If you want to be studious and complete the course in a timely fashion, just as if you were in an actual classroom, you can pay ~$50 bucks for a certificate of completion.
Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/courses/) offers a variety of free courses, and a lot of paid courses. They push ratings as a way of advertising a course, so you can filter out the quality ones from perhaps the not so quality. More of the YouTube of online education, which is definitely not a bad thing.
I haven't used Edx (https://www.edx.org/course-list) much, but this is also an online college-style course site offered by colleges/universities, such as MIT or Harvard.
An honarable mention will be Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/) which was a vital resource for me when taking my math courses in college. It was started by a guy who made YouTube videos for his niece to help with math. He liked this method of teaching because you could pause and replay a section of the teaching in case you did not understand it the first time. He later developed the site with more teachers and added more categories on top of math (science, economics/finance, arts, et cetera) which I still reference today. The absolute best thing that hooked me on the site was a level up/progressive system. They have a knowledge map (https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard) where it shows the basics of math flowing into more concepts.....something that I would urge the school systems to adopt instead of integrated math bullshit that jumps around instead of laying building blocks upon a solid foundation.
ANYWAYS!!!!! If you want to be a life long learner but don't want life long debt, check out those sites!
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