Learning is a never-ending thing in a life of a growth-centric human. There are for more resource for one to gain new skills and knowledge beyond the confines of the classroom and lecture hall. Ever since The Internet became truly ubiquitous, we've seen a sort of revolution of erudition where knowledge are being distributed through the web. There now exists various websites and apps that is designed to let us learn things we'd otherwise have to spend countless time and money to sit for night classes.
Personally I am consistently using 10 websites to learn new stuff and gain new skills or just satisfy my curiosity. So the websites in the list here are all tried and true by yours truly.
Here are 5 out of 10 websites you can go now to learn for free
1. Duolingo
Duolingo is undoubtedly the best free language learning website you can go to right now. I've been using it since 2016 and although I did not make as much progress as I wanted, it was still amazing the language skills I have obtained. Established by Guatemalan Luis Von Ann, he envisioned a world where language will no longer be such a tall a barrier and access to language education does not rely on one's finance or location. Anyone can learn a new language anywhere. The app is free on iOS and Android though the web version offers more complexity and better learning experience. You can pay for a no-ads version but I dont think the ads are that intrusive.
2. edX.org
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Online University Lecture Videos, for free, for everyone. edX aims to make public university videos accessible to everyone regardless whether they are students or where they are from. Free online Lecture videos have been a norm for sometime but they are often either hard to find or accessible only within restricted university WAN. though the video themselves has been made open source by the lecturers. What edX does is to aggregate all the content in an easily searchable place. If you're not in a $12,000/year university course for now, edX is the as good as a getting a degree. In fact you can even get yourself a real certificate upon the completion of each course, after a comprehensive test an a certification fee.
3. Codeacademy
I am currently learning HTML5 and python using Codecademy, They aim to enable everyone to be able to learn the basics of coding and break the barrier of how hard it is to be a programmer. While I am not able to code the next AI killer robot software yet, Codecademy has made me realize that knowing the basics how to code something is just a course away. Perhaps you want to know what it is that coders do, or try to at least make sense of the "gibberish" that the tech people post all the time. Codecademy is your place to go..
4. TED
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I first knew about TED in 2012 from my elder cousin, and honestly my worldview has been changed talk by talk ever since. Free videos of talks by the world's greatest experts in their fields, notable people with extraordinary lives and ventures, people with messages that are changing the world. TED, Technology, Entertainment and Design. Pretty much encompasses all the facets of modern life that makes the world go round. If you're the type that like to binge watch videos, you might as well watch those that blows your mind.
5. Khan Academy
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"A free world-class education for everyone, everywhere, forever". This is what Khan Academy stands for. Khan Academy started as a series of Youtube videos made by it's founder Sal Khan - a Wall Street hedge fund analyst back then, to his cousin back in his home country in Bangladesh. After receiving all the gracious comments he gained, he realized that what he has in his hand and how this will change the world. Hence born Khan Academy. If your child isn't on Khan Academy, don't bother with the $100/month tuition classes and get them on here. Learning is all about mastery and that is not practiced in the schools our children are going to.
Sal Khan himself said it best: "The old classroom model simply doesn't fit our changing needs, It's a fundamentally passive way of learning, while the world requires more and more active processing of information. The old model is based on pushing students together in age-group batches with one-pace-fits-all curricula and hoping they pick up something along the way. It isn't clear that this was the best model a hundred years ago; it certainly isn't anymore."
I initially intend to list 10 websites (which I do use) where you can learn something for free, Part 2 will come up within 24 hours, If you enjoy the list so far and is curious for what's the other 5. Tune In!!"
thanks for sharing! part 2 led me here :)