Online Resources

2U — online degree programs from top-tier universities
Academic Earth — free online courses from the world’s top universities
AcaWiki — summaries of academic papers
After the Deadline — checks for spelling and grammatical errors and provides style suggestions
Audible — audiobooks and podcasts
Blinkist — executive summaries of recent psychology, economics, finance, business, and classic books
Carnegie Mellon University, Open Learning Initiative — online courses for anyone who wants to learn or teach
Class Central — make informed online learning decisions
Coursera — free and paid courses from the top universities
Creative Commons — keeping the internet creative, free and open
Curious.com — play the game of lifelong learning
Directory of Open Access Journals — online directory for high-quality, open access, peerreviewed journals
Duolingo — learn Spanish, French, and other languages for free
edX — free online courses from the world’s best universities
GoodReads — book reviews, recommendations, and discussion
Google Books
Google Scholar
Internet Archive — library of millions of free books, movies, software, and more
italki — find native speakers and teachers online
iTunes U (Open University)
Khan Academy — learn math, science, programming, history, art, economics, and more for free, includes interactive exercises with progress reports
Library Genesis — a Russian website where you can find free PDFs of books and textbooks
Lingua.ly — makes daily Internet use a language learning experience
MIT OpenCourseWare — my personal favorite for teaching myself a new subject
NovoEd
OpenLearn
Openstax CNX — view and share free educational material in small modules
Open Yale Courses
Quora — get the best answer to any question
Similarsites.com — find sites similar to the ones you like
Stanford Online
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) — short, powerful talks on new and important ideas
Treehouse — computer programming:
Udacity
Udemy — online courses anytime, anywhere
Unclasses
What Should I Read Next — enter a book you like and receive a recommendation
Wikiversity
Wolframalpha — gives you access to the world’s facts and data calculates answers across a range of topics
YouTube EDU