Alice Kuipers's Blog: Book Club, page 37

girl-havoced:I believe in free education, one that’s available...

girl-havoced:

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 
CourseraFutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED
FORA
Big Think 
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Bucky’s room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

Right now - no excuses. Only you can tell it.

Right now - no excuses. Only you can tell it.

Waiting for an author to write the next book in my favorite series

bookish:

Especially after an epic cliffhanger… 

;-)

How could this pair of imagoes inspire your own story? What does...

How could this pair of imagoes inspire your own story? What does it make you think is happening? Write two short scenes, one from the point of view of each of the characters.

Potato bowling with Lego men.

Potato bowling with Lego men.

Exactly…

Exactly…

Try found poetry today - hunt for scraps of words anywhere (an...

Try found poetry today - hunt for scraps of words anywhere (an instruction manual, a recipe books, a page from a novel) and rearrange them, place them to please you, to make something new. Or take words away like in this example. Let me know how you get on…

Love this from my three year old…

Love this from my three year old… 

Hmmmmm- I could spend a few weeks here!

Hmmmmm- I could spend a few weeks here!

theweekmagazine:In praise of bath timeGrown-ups deserve a soak,...

theweekmagazine:

In praise of bath time

Grown-ups deserve a soak, too

ALL my best ideas happen in the bath!