Learn New Skills

Learn New Skills List of 100+ Free Educational Websites - Learn New Skills Weve put together a huge list of websites that can teach you new skills and abilities for free. Enjoy, and good luck on the job hunt! Build My Resume Now Table of Contents Click the links below to navigate to the relevant section: Online University Courses Other Course-Like Sites Computer Skills Music Language Cooking Books Miscellaneous IMPORTANT   How Can You Prove You Learned These Skills? 1. Online University Courses This section provides a list of Universities that share their materials openly and freely for all, with the aim of supporting classroom instruction, and giving all individuals access to an excellent education. Take note some University sites provide better content than others in specific areas of study. Depending on your interest, you should do some research prior to choosing one of these links. Berkeley Part  1 Berkeley Part 2  (videos) Carnegie Mellon Harvard Johns Hopkins Open Course Ware Finder Open Course Ware Consortium MIT Lectures Rice Connexions Stanford  Courses Stanford  Videos University of New South Wales University of Reddit University of Sydney University of the People Utah State Yale  Videos P2P University 2. Other Course-Like Sites (Not Directly University Affiliated) These websites are less structured than the University affiliated sites, and may be more helpful to someone with less time to commit. Academic Earth Better Explained Cosmo Learning Directory of Open Access Journals Free Video Lectures Freelance-Teacher IncrediCampus Khan Academy How Stuff Works LectureFox Mixergy National Programme on Tech Enhanced Learning Open Culture OpenStudy Study Blue TeachMate TED WikiHow Wikiversity Wonder How To Youtube Edu 3. Computer Related Skills Learn how to program, write code, and work with alternative operating systems with these helpful websites. Bloc: How to program D Zone: (Programming and Devops Question and Answer Site) Free Technology Academy Developing for Android Learn about Linux Lynda.com Nettuts   Web development tutorials University of Washington CSE Stack Overflow  (Question and Answer Site) Web Building Tutorials VideoCoPilot   Tutorials for Adobe After Effects Java Specific: Blue Pelican Java Textbook CalTech CS Java Track:  A syllabus, with assignments and labs. Work through it like a student. FHDA Community College Intro to Java Course GA Tech Free Java Learning Materials MIT 6.092 Intro to Programming in Java ORACLEs Java Tutorials 4. Music Music theory, music lessons, and a few different instruments. Learn how to jam out some tunes! Bass Lessons Funk University Guitar Lessons at Ultimate-Guitar Guitar Lessons at The Stringery Guitar Lessons at The Next Level Guitar Guitar Lessons at Justin Guitar Guitar Neck Quiz Music Theory Trainear.com Music Theory MusicTheory.net Piano Lessons Teoria Classical Music Theory 5. Language Bilingual ability is a solid addition to any resume. Get started learning today! Duolingo:  Learn language for free and translate the web Languages from BBC LiveMocha Talk To Me In Korean:  Lessons on speaking Korean 6. Cooking/Food: Cooking Skills should probably be a mandatory section of everyones resume. Cooking Coarse Good Eats 7. eBooks, Online Books, and Academic Journals: Successful people never stop learning. Use these resources to find articles, books, and journals sometimes for free! Cite Seer Get Cited Google Books How to Think Like a Computer Scientist eBook Large List of Science eBooks Librivox   A free audio book website Online Library ibiblio Open Book Project Planet eBook Project  Gutenburg Scribd The Free Library The Assayer:  The webs largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free WikiBooks WorldCat Worldwide Library Catalog 8. Miscellaneous Subjects: Math, psychology, philosophy, exercise, investing, science, business planning, and even livestock management. Theres nothing you cant learn here. Argument Mapping Careers and College Creative Live Exercise InfoPlease Almanac Instructables Investing Lets Make Robots Make Magazine Psychoactives Raising Chickens The Math Motherload Western Civilization Yoga 9. Proving You Learned These Skills The Internet, rapidly developing technology, and cheaper technology are working together to quickly create a more level educational playing field for motivated learners. The question is quickly becoming: how will institutions like universities, companies, and governments begin to recognize skills, knowledge, and abilities learned outside of the normal paths? (By normal, we mean the process of earning a degree from a university, or getting training through your job.) Right now, it is not acceptable to claim that you earned skills or abilities from the Internet on your resume. It is too difficult to prove that you rigorously studied the information and learned new skills to a satisfactory degree. That is why the degree system exists at universities it standardizes the level of competence needed to earn the degree. However, there are massive projects being undertaken to begin a new standardization process ones that could help people who cannot afford college, or are simply self-motivated learners, prove that they have skills and abilities on par with those who earned a normal university degree. Tip Another way to prove you have these skills is to dig back to your school days. Learn how to strategically use your extracurricular activities to highlight your skills. Mozillas Open Badges Project At Resume Genius, we are particularly interested in Mozillas Open Badges project. To summarize briefly, Open Badges hopes to create a process where your skills can be tested and proven, with the evidence/results stored in a digital format (in the form of a badge). Theoretically, you could collect these badges, and offer them as evidence to universities to earn credits, or to companies as supplement for your resume. We believe that such a process could truly bring revolutionary changes to the way people learn skills and choose career paths.  Although we believe that people should learn for the sake of learning, we also believe in practicality. That is why we are excited about Mozillas Open Badges, and the democratization of education on the web.