Learning
Maps and indexes for learning almost anything.
Archives
Open Culture (Website) — “The best free cultural & educational media on the web,” collected since 2006 — a daily blog on film, art, literature and music sitting on top of a set of standing indexes to everything free and legitimately available online.
- Free Online Courses (Reference) — 1,700 courses from top universities, listed by subject with links straight to the lectures.
- Free Movies Online (Reference) — 4,000+ films: classics, indies, noir, westerns, and documentaries.
- Free Audio Books (Reference) — 1,000 recorded books, mostly out of copyright, ready to download.
- Free eBooks (Reference) — 800 titles formatted for Kindle, iPad, and everything else.
- Free Language Lessons (Reference) — courses in 48 languages, from Arabic to Yiddish.
Resources
- SkillTree (LearnDB) (Website) — an open-source “universal map for learning”: quality resources for any topic, organised by subject and format and tagged with difficulty, prerequisites, and traits like visual or interactive, with direct links out.
- Learn X by doing Y (Website) — a project-based-learning search engine that points you at concrete projects to build, on the idea that you learn a skill best by making something real with it.
- Open Syllabus: most-assigned titles (Website) — a ranking of the 3.3 million titles assigned on university syllabi through 2021, filterable by field, country, and institution. Stewart’s Calculus tops it with 20,142 appearances, ahead of The Elements of Style.
- Opinionated Guides (Website) — one engineer’s curated, no-BS map for teaching yourself engineering, music, design, and philosophy — the good resources kept, the junk filtered out, meant to be the friend you come back to for “where next?”.
Channels
- TED-Ed (Channel) — TED’s education arm: short, gorgeously animated lessons across science, history, literature, and philosophy, plus the addictive “Can you solve…” riddle series.