Top Picks

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ro/ Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

OpenCourseWare Consortium http://www.oeconsortium.org/ This site provides a portal to search through hundreds of free courses or to add new courses you know about to the database.

iBerry http://iberry.com/ Check out this site for a huge directory of open courseware organized by school and subject matter that can point you in the right direction for any type of learning.

Self Made Scholar Directory http://selfmadescholar.com/b/ Free online directory of web-based classes and courses.

Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/

Academic Earth - Online courses from the world's top scholars http://academicearth.org/

TED - Technology, Entertainment, & Design http://www.ted.com/

MIT Open CourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

Stanford Engineering Everywhere http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/

About U. - Collection of free online courses from About.com http://u.about.com/

Wikiversity http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

YouTube EDU http://www.youtube.com/education?b=400

The Open University - Study at the OU http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

University of the People www.uopeople.org

University of Reddit http://ureddit.com/

Open Culture - The best free cultural & educational media on the web http://openculture.com/

VideoLectures - Exchange ideas & share knowledge http://videolectures.net/

CosmoLearning - Free educational website with thousands of courses & documentaries http://www.cosmolearning.com/