Internet educational resources

Education is changing. The Internet is a great resource for learning whatever you want and is almost free.

Universities with free educational content

 * MIT OpenCourseware - The original and still one of the best, provides syllabi, problem sets, lecture videos, and sometimes extensive lecture notes for regular MIT classes. MIT also has a YouTube channel for their lectures, available at the following address: http://www.youtube.com/user/mit?blend=1&ob=4
 * John Hopkins School OpenCourseware - Great resource if you are interested in Public Health as a career move.
 * Utah State OpenCourseware - Solid site for many lower level undergraduate classes.
 * Tufts OpenCourseware - Another introduction to the life sciences, and public health.
 * Open UW - Free on-line courses from the University of Washington.
 * UC Berkley Courses Webcasts - Free video and/or audio lectures of present and past courses at UC Berkley. UC Berkley also has a YouTube channel of their lectures, available at the following address. http://www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeley?blend=2&ob=4
 * EcEdWeb - Free course on Economics from the University of Nebraska.
 * Whatcom Community College Math Courses
 * Princeton University Archived Lectures
 * Dartmouth College, Introduction to Probability
 * Stanford CS Education Library
 * University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page
 * Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative
 * NY University: Mathematics Material

Educational podcasts

 * Stanford - A variety of podcasts containing academic information.

Multilingual

 * The BBC offers free online language lessons.
 * Duolingo offers free language courses in multiple languages.
 * Babelfish can provide quick (if rather basic) translation for many common languages. As does Google Translate and Bing.
 * Vistawide World Languages & Cultures - Listings of various language education resources, some free, many low-cost.
 * Word2Word - Index to on-line language courses and services.

American Sign Language

 * http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/

Esperanto
Lernu offers free Esperanto training. "Kurso de Esperanto" is a free downloadable 12 lesson course for Windows and Linux

French
TV5MONDE offers French instruction materials on their website, Apprendre le français avec TV5MONDE.

German
Deutsche Welle "Deutsch Interaktiv" - Free on-line German lessons from Germany's international broadcaster.

Spanish
For those with internet access, the website http://www.spanish-kit.net/ offers an on-line course with free downloadable material for off-line studying.

Welsh
Learn Welsh via BBC

Other free resources
Please limit the resources to the free and useful
 * Librivox - Free Creative Commons AudioBook Literature: Ranging from Dostoyevsky to Darwin, from Ayn Rand to Mikhail Bakunin (And even an audiobook of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.)
 * Web cloud University - Multimedia courses and tutorials on interesting and funny topics.
 * Free-Ed.net - Free education on the Internet
 * Wikipedia - Obviously.
 * Creative Commons - Bunch of different resources... and it's searchable.
 * Wikiversity - Open-source textbooks and user-taught classes.
 * Internet Archive - Searchable resource of literally thousands of documents, papers, and recordings, all for free!
 * Curriki - "Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free!"
 * Library of Congress
 * Annenberg Media (Free registration required)
 * Core Documents on U.S. Democracy - See what those wild-eyed, free-thinking, whiskey-drinking, hemp-growing radicals were thinking of!
 * Learn CPR
 * Sophia Project
 * ERI Distance Learning Center - Take preview classes for free. College credit costs $29 exam fee.
 * A First Course in Linear Algebra
 * Article on Lifehacker about free on-line education