Top 5 Places to Educate Yourself Online

As I have mentioned recently, it is quite important and VERY lucrative to keep yourself educated.  Last time I mentioned reasons, and this time I will give you ways to actually improve your knowledge without paying a cent. (well, after your internet connection and computer. ha)

1. MIT Open Courseware This is probably my favorite, and one of the most useful sites out there.  There are more than 1800 courses available, many with audio and video lectures.  Some just have lecture notes and student work examples, but many have the whole suite of info that make it easy to learn what MIT students are learning. 
2. Fathom.com Very similar to MIT’s site, but quite smaller, despite the fact it has many large contributors, such as AFI and the University of Chicago.  Nevertheless it has some interesting courses and most of them have plenty of info. 
3. iTunes U All you need is iTunes, and if you so desire, an iPod.  Podcasts and Video Podcasts of lectures from Universities all over the world can be downloaded, with just the click of a button.  There are multitudes of courses on iTunes U, so you are almost guaranteed to find something to your chosen area of interest. 
4. Open Culture   Another amazing resource, with a multitude of links and podcasts to learn pretty much anything to your liking.  My current favorite would have to be Philosophers’ Cafe.
5. The Gutenberg Project Named for the grand old guy that gave us the printing press, this site is the leading provider of famous works of literature offered in the form of free eBooks.  You can find pretty much any great work of literature on here, downloadable in a quaint little text file. 

Hope you enjoy the list, and use it to its full extent!! There are some amazing resources here, and it would be a shame if you were to know about this and not utilize it to its full potential.