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15 Online Learning websites that you should check out. Planning start something new in this year?

15 Online Learning websites that you should check out

You can start to learn online now. Online education is gaining popularity over the last few years, as it should. I have tried few of them last year and will share my experience with them in this post. Since I am a software developer we are going to focus on the materials related to it. So, here is a list of sites that you should visit before you make you make your choice. The italic text below the title are taken from the respective sites. Editor’s Note: The list is continuously updated as more sites come live and as some of them get closed down 1. Kick-start your programming projects We recently made the content publicly and freely available, so that it can reach and help out more people. JCG Courses 2. We’re the world’s online learning marketplace, where 8 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography–and much, much more.

Udemy Grab the deal NOW! 3. Skillshare 4. Achieve your dreams and change the world. Can you name the words that may sound dirty...but aren't? Quiz. Color Test - Online Color Challenge. Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online. #1 UC Berkeley Ranked as the #1 public school in the United States, Berkeley offers podcasts and webcasts of amazing professors lecturing.

Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online

Each course has an RSS feed so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and notes you can check the professors homepage, which is usually given in the first lecture or google his name. Even though the notes, homework and tests are not directly printed in the berkeley website, as they are in MIT and other courseware sites, it's not a problem to find them. I personally tried to use it for John Wawrzynek's machine structures class and the nutrition courses. Visit:Berkeley WebcastsVisit:Berkeley RSS FeedsVisit:UC Berkeley on Google Video Getting The Most From Berkeley Webcasts Berkeley Videos are in .rm format and real player can be a pain. Download:Real Alternative PluginDownload:Media Player Classic For Windows XP/2000Download:Media Player Classic For Windows 98/ME #2 MIT Open Courseware Getting the Most Out of MIT OCW Download:Foxit Reader. Advance Your Career Through Project-Based Online Classes - Udacity.

12 great free online courses. Much ado has been made in recent years over the quickly rising cost of healthcare in the United States.

12 great free online courses

But the cost of college tuition and fees has skyrocketed at nearly twice that rate. Going to college today will cost a student 559% more than it did in 1985, on average. In an exciting talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Stanford professor Daphne Koller explains why she was inspired — alongside fellow professor Andrew Ng — to create Coursera, which brings great classes from top universities online for free. Coursera classes have specific start dates, require students to take quizzes and turn in assignments, as well as allowing professors to customize their course into online chunks rather than simply recording their lectures.

Even outside of Coursera, the number of college classes available on a computer screen rather than in a brick-and-mortar lecture hall is staggering. Inspired by Young, below, find 12 courses you could take for a completely free TED degree in Big Ideas.

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