Selfeducation

Self-education is becoming a critical mindset to navigate our rapidly changing world. Lifelong learning can be a gateway to self-employment. 

Fortunately, the Internet has made it easier than ever to find the right resources to spark your curiosity and learn what you need to know.

In this post, you'll find useful self-education resources online: courses and tools to master new skills, learn languages, broaden your mind and interact with other lifelong learners.

Open Online Courses

1. Coursera -The largest course platform for free MOOCs . Founded by two former Stanford University professors.
2. World Education University (WEU) – A massively open online University (they call it MOOC 2.0) that offers degrees and full program for free. It’s a for-profit enterprise that funds itself through advertising, publishing and organization partnerships rather than tuition fees.
3. Canvas Network – An open learning network with a growing collection of free online courses. Sign up early for courses, they fill up fast.
4. FutureLearn – The United Kingdom’s MOOC initiative has over 40 leading Universities offering free online courses.

Lectures and Video Learning Websites:

Enjoy watching short lectures by the world’s leading thinkers and creators.

1. YouTube EDU – Google’s YouTube Education channel. Lots of great educational content, lectures and conference talks conveniently organized.
2. Do Lectures – Inspiring talks from people who have set out to change the world.
3. Big Think – Short videos with important contemporary thinkers and scientists talking about their expertise.
4. @Google Talks – Innovator thinkers and doers visit Googleplex to give inspiring talks that are posted freely online by Google.
5. Academic Earth – 1000s of free video lectures from many of the world’s top Universities.
6. The Faculty Project – Udemy has created an excellent free platform for the best professors from the world’s leading Universities to teach online.
7. The Floating University – Inspiring video lectures from today’s most interesting thinkers and leading scholars.
8. Reddit Lectures – A busy Reddit community for the latest and greatest video lectures.
9. Video Lectures – A growing collection of 14,500+ video lectures.

Open Educational Resources:

 Explore a world of free digital self-education resources

1. Textbook Revolution – Free, open source textbooks if that’s how you want to learn.
2. Open Textbooks – Browse college textbooks by subject, which are made freely available online.
3. Scribd – Amazing library of digital documents on every imaginable subject.
4. Slideshare – Learn new things and find information broken down to the essential bits in this incredible library of digital presentations.
5. Creative Commons Education – An open source movement to make educational content freely available online.
6. Connexions – A global knowledge sharing community that breaks information down into small, easily-digestible chunks.
7. Open Study – Ask. Answer. Understand. Get real-time study help in the world’s largest study group.
8. Quora – My favorite question and answer community. Find expert and amateur advice on every imaginable topic.
9. iTunes Podcasts – I highly recommend browsing the Podcasts on iTunes. 

Find and Share Amazing Books:

Discover new books that you can read online or find at your local library and connect with other people reading similar books.

1. Good Reads – A massive social network (recently acquired by Amazon) for discovering new books and sharing the books you love.
2. Book Yards – 1000s of more free ebooks easily browsable by author or category.
3. Read Print Library – A social network “where books and people meet”.
4. Library Thing – A community of 1.6 million book lovers. Meet and share stories with people who have similar taste or are reading the same books you are.

Education Depositories and Tools:

Some great digital tools for furthering your self-education and lifelong learning.

1. Learnist – Browse and create your own online learning collections. Lots of great content to enjoy.
2. MentorMob – Discover and create your own learning playlists. Similar to Learnist.
3. Kibin – A proof-reading and editing community that can help you improve your writing. 
4. Library of Congress – The de facto national library of the United States of America and the largest library in the world. 
5. BBC Learning – Huge collection of learning resources from the BBC. Find online courses, videos and educational games.

Recommended Reading:

All education is self-education, a good teacher can only point the way, we have to do the work. 

1. Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will (Dale J. Stephens)
2. The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late (Michael Ellsberg)
3. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined (Salman Khan)
4. Better Than College: How to Build a Successful Life Without a Four-Year Degree (Blake Boles)
5. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Anya Kamenetz)
6. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (John Taylor Gatto)
7. Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better (John Holt)
8. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (Chris Guillebeau)
9. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Peter Gray)
10. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (Neil Postman)

Critical Thinking Resources:

If you’re going to follow the path of self-education these resources can help you sharpen your critical thinking skills.

1. Think Again: How to Reason and Argue – Improve your ability to assess arguments other people make and learn how to construct good arguments of your own.
2. Critical Thinking in Global Challenges – Interesting course that teaches you how to assess information and develop reasoned arguments in the context of global challenges facing our world.

3. Why The Future Of Learning Is Self-Education - why the digital revolution has made self-education and lifelong learning easier than ever before.

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