DIY Learning

In this section you’ll find websites where you can take courses for free, some offered by great schools. We also list websites that provide books for free, such as the Gutenberg Project.

Class Central

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Class Central provides a list of 500 free online courses from Ivy League colleges such as Princeton and Harvard. Really!

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Complexly

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Complexly posts educational videos done by a group of people who try to make things easier to understand. Click on the website, then click on Our Shows. This is really fun!

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Crash Course

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The Crash Course folks believe that high quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free. The Crash Course team has produced more than 15 courses to date, and these videos accompany high school and college level classes ranging from the humanities to the sciences.

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Crash Course Navigating Digital Information

This online crash course teaches you how to be a more educated consumer of information on the internet.

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Curious

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Curious is an online website to learn something new every day. It has free membership access and over 1,000 courses. An online account is required.

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Ed-X

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Ed-X provides free college level courses to learn at your own pace. Subjects include computer science, languages, engineering, business, technology, and many more. It is free and online although you do need to create an account to register.

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GCF LearnFree Program

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The GCF LearnFree Program offers free online classes in technology, reading, math, core skills, career planning, and more.

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Khan Academy

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Khan Academy is an online resource to take classes in math, science, arts, economics, and much more. Classes start at the elementary level and go through college, AND it's free. Take a moment to watch this video of Jason Spyres, who used transcripts from Khan Academy classes (mailed to him by his mother) to prepare for college while he was incarcerated. He's now out and studying computer science at Stanford!

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Learning Express

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EBSCO's Learning Express is a great resource when you're trying to improve yourself. For example, you can get free career preparation, free high school equivalency test preparation, free college admission test preparation, and much more. All it requires is a library card, which you can get through any public library in Colorado. Type "Tutorial Video" into the search bar to set up your free account and to learn more about their opportunities. When you're registering for an account, be sure to use your library card number as a user name. If you don't have a library card, ask library staff to help you.

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Libraries

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Many public libraries have free online courses and in-person courses. Look on the website to find your community library and contact information. Also, check out the Libraries section on remerg.com for more info.

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MOOCS

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MOOCs stands for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The website provides a list of free online courses which are all free. You will need to create an online account.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. No app is necessary to install to use the library and download a book, and there is no fee. This is a public service provided by people who love books and want to share them with others.

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