Some of the greatest minds on earth never went to elite institutions, they say. Then what is it that have moulded them into such fine minds? It is self-education.
In a competitive world as this, learning by oneself might not be feasible or acceptable to many, but experts feel herein lies the key to accessing a treasure trove of knowledge. Earlier, knowledge was gained by books, now it is all present in the sea called internet.
Here are few resources that can help one learn a great deal.
In the Science and Health category, the publications are MIT OpenCourseWare, Tufts OpenCourseWare, HowStuffWorks Science, Harvard Medical School Open Courseware, Khan Academy, Open Yale Courses, webcast.berkeley, UC San Diego Podcast Lectures, Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative, Utah State OpenCourseWare, AMSER (The Applied Math and Science Education Repository), Wolfram Demonstrations Project, The Science Forum, Free Science and Video Lectures Online!, Science.gov, The National Science Digital Library, Envirolink Network, Geology.com, Scitable and LearningScience.org.
Next, when it comes to Business and Money, MIT Sloan School of Management, Investopedia Financial Investing Tutorials, U S Small Business Administration Training Network, VideoLectures.NET (Business), My Own Business, Inc., UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Business), Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Boston College Front Row (Business), Financial Management Training Center, The Free Nonprofit Micro-eMBA, Bookboon Free Business e-books and TheStreet University.
In the interesting field of History and World Culture, the resources are, University of Washington’s openUW, Notre Dame OpenCourseWre, Bio’s Best, UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Social Science), Boston College Front Row (History), MIT OpenCourseWare (History), Wikiversity School of Social Sciences, OpenLearn (Arts and Humanities), A Biography of America, Have Fun with History, The USGenWeb Project, MacroHistory and World Report, World History HyperHistory and American Digital History.
The resources for Law include Duke Law Center for the Public Domain, Intute Law, Boston College Front Row (Law), American University, Lewis & Clark Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law, MoneyInstructor Business Law, Wesleyan College Constitutional Law.
In Computer Science and Engineering, the key portals are VideoLectures.NET (Computer Science), Wikiversity School of Computer Science and Technology, New York State University (US), Computer Science, Dream.In.Code Tutorials, MIT OpenCourseWare (Engineering and Computer Science), Maine University (US), Fogler Guide to Computer Science, FreeComputerBooks.com, Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, W3Schools, FreeTechBooks.com, Free Computer Tutorials, Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code and Google Code University.
As far as the crucial subject of Mathematics is concerned, the resources are Oxford University Mathermatics OpenCourseWare, Umass Boston Mathematics, Wikiversity School of Mathematics, Whatcom Online Math Center, VideoLectures.NET (Mathematics), AMSER Mathematics, Math.com, Intute Mathematics and Free-Ed College Mathematics.
In English and Communications, it is Open Yale Courses (English), Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students, Merriam-Webster Online, National Novel Writing Month, Lifewriting, Guide to Grammar and Writing and Purdue Online Writing Lab.
For Foreign and Sign Languages, it is BBC Languages, American Sign Language Browser, LiveMocha, Learn10, One Minute Languages and Mango Languages.
For Multiple Subjects and Miscellaneous, OpenLearn, Capilano University OpenCourseWare, University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare, YouTube EDU, LearnHub Test Prep, iTunes U, United Nations Univesity OpenCourseWare, Brigham Young Independent Study, University of Utah OpenCourseWare, United States Nation Archives, Wikiversity, Umass Boston OpenCourseWare, About U, Academic Earth, Free-Ed, Connexions, TED, Intute and Boston College Front Row.
On the other hand, for those and reading recommendations LibraryThing, Textbook Revolution and educational materials, Book TV, Bookboon, Scribd, BookYards, Planet eBook, E-Books Directory, Read Print Library, The Online Books Page, Public Literature, Full Books, Many Books, Get Free Books, Project Gutenberg, Bibliomania, Classic Reader, Bartleby Fiction, The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List and Books Should Be Free
