Try These 53 Websites If You Want to Learn Something New
You can now have access to thousands of courses, skills, tips, tricks, ideas, and lessons — mostly for free
I am not a big fan of listicles, but there is no choice for things of this nature. In the following paragraphs, I provide a list of fifty-three websites that can help you learn something new. Most of them are free of cost.
Adjacent to each website, there is an overview. This can give you some clue about the website, foundation, company, tool, app, or platform.
Before navigating the links, let’s ponder upon this quote of René Descartes, a renowned French Philosopher:
“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.”
Multiple fields and subjects (1–15)
Find thousands of free and paid online courses on these fifteen platforms:
lynda.com — “It’s referred to as LinkedIn Learning. It is an American website that offers video courses in tech, artistic, and business skills taught by industry experts. LinkedIn owns the company.”
Khan Academy — “Math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, banking, history, and more are all available for free.”
edX — “Get access to over 2000 free online courses from 140 of the world’s most prestigious universities. Earn a certificate of completion when learning new skills.”
Coursera — “Coursera collaborates with more than 200 leading universities and businesses to provide individuals and organizations around the world with flexible, affordable, and job-relevant online learning.”
Stanford Online — “Their free online courses provide a cost-effective and versatile way to learn new skills and research hot topics — from Stanford faculty and industry experts.”
Highbrow — “With 5-minute lessons sent to your inbox every morning, Highbrow lets you learn something new every day.”
Skillshare — “Skillshare is an online learning community-based in the United States for people who want to learn through instructional videos. The non-accredited courses can be accessed via a subscription.”
Curious — “A daily learning workout with daily curios, challenging puzzles, and 25000+ video lessons tailored specifically for you.”
CreativeLive — “Photography, art, architecture, craft & DIY, marketing, business, and entrepreneurship are all available as online classes. On-demand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
Udemy — “Udemy is a global marketplace for online learning and teaching with over 130000 courses and 35 million students.”
Udacity — “Udacity, Inc. is a for-profit education company based in the United States that offers massive open online courses.”
Alison — “Certificates are available for free online classes. Join the 2 million graduates who have boosted their careers. With free online learning and training, you can research, practice, certify, and upskill.”
CourseBuffet — “Find free college-level online courses (MOOCs) from leading free course providers and universities.”
FutureLearn — “Join the millions of people who use FutureLearn to learn. Start learning online today by finding online courses and degrees from reputable colleges and organizations.”
MasterClass — “[It] provides students of all ability levels with online courses. [Their] teachers are some of the most talented in the world.”
Miscellaneous (16–32)
Learn new skills, DIYs, and various other lessons:
TED-Ed — “TED’s education project creates shareable short video lessons for educators and students.”
Investopedia — “Investopedia is the most comprehensive platform for learning about investing, stock markets, business research, and free trading simulators.”
Pianu —“Pianu is the world’s first virtual online piano for learning to play. Learn to read music and play chords when singing along to your favorite songs.”
Yousician — “Yousician is an entertaining way to learn to play the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, or sing. With Yousician as your personal music instructor, you’ll have access to thousands of songs!”
Academic Earth — “Find free online classes, seminars, and videos from some of the US top universities. Take online courses from prestigious universities such as Yale, MIT, and Stanford.”
Degreed — “Degreed brings learning, talent growth, and internal mobility opportunities all together in one position, allowing you to reinvent yourself one ability at a time.”
Improve Your Social Skills — “A realistic, detailed guide to social skills. Conversation, body language, empathy, and making friends are among the topics covered. There’s a lot of free stuff here.”
Succeed Socially — “A fully free guide for adults on how to develop their social skills, written by a quiet, awkward man.”
Job-Hunt.org — “A reliable source of up-to-date practical how-to work search tips and career guidance from certified experts.”
Mind Tools — “Learn more than 3200 management, leadership, and personal effectiveness skills with MindTools.com’s resources, which will help you be happier and more competitive…”
Instructables — “Instructables is a website dedicated to people who enjoy making stuff. Join us as we discuss, share, and build your next idea.”
Allrecipes — “On Allrecipes, you can find and share daily cooking inspiration. Find tips, chefs, videos, and how-tos focused on your favorite foods.”
InstaNerd — “It’s a website that presents random useful information in a few sentences so you don’t have to read all except the most interesting bits.”
Now I Know — “A free daily newsletter; every day you’ll learn something new.”
iTunesU — “Hundreds of universities use iTunes U to distribute tutorials, slide shows, PDFs, films, exhibit tours, and audio books, including Stanford, Yale, and MIT. Agriculture, astronomy, genetics, chemistry, engineering, ecology, and geography are only a few of the subjects covered in the Science section.”
Household Hacker — “Solving basic day-to-day problems and making stuff from objects found around the house.”
Big Think — “Big Think is a multimedia online platform [with] a series of interviews, presentations, and roundtable discussions with experts from a broad variety of fields,” says the website.
Coding, Programming, Data Science, & Web Development (33–46)
Platforms for learning coding, programming, data science, web development, and other related fields:
Codecademy —”Codecademy is a free online interactive platform that teaches programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, Swift, and Sass, as well as markup languages such as HTML and CSS.”
Free Code Camp — “freeCodeCamp is a non-profit organization that includes an interactive learning web site, an online discussion forum, chat rooms, online magazines, and local organizations with the aim of making web creation available to everyone.”
Platzi — “Learn from the ground up to form the web’s future. Programming, architecture, marketing, web creation, Frontend, Backend, mobile development, UX, and usability courses are all available.”
CodeCombat — “A programming game will help you learn typed code. You’ll learn Python, JavaScript, and HTML.”
Code School — “[A platform with] comprehensive course material that covers a broad range of topics and helps you code across platforms such as Web, Mobile, DevOps, Data, and UX.”
Thinkful — “Thinkful is a career accelerator that helps graduates get jobs in the technology industry. With a bootcamp-style program and one-on-one mentorship, you can learn data science or code.”
Code.org — “Hadi and Ali Partovi created Code.org, a non-profit organization and eponymous website that aims to inspire people.”
BaseRails — “By creating real projects like Etsy, Yelp, and data scrapers, BaseRails teaches Ruby on Rails, web scraping, and other technologies.”
Treehouse — “Treehouse is an online technology school that provides courses in web design, web development, mobile development, and game development for beginners to advanced students. Its courses are designed for people who are new to coding and want to get a job in the tech industry.”
One Month —“In just one month, you can complete the best online coding courses for beginners. Learn python, html, javascript, and other programming languages.”
Dash — “Teaching you the fundamentals of web development through browser-based projects in fun and free manner.”
DataCamp — “With DataCamp’s video tutorials and coding challenges on R, Python, Statistics, and more, you can learn Data Science from the comfort of your browser, at your own speed.”
DataQuest — “Learn R, Python, and SQL from the ground up with [their] hands-on data science courses, so you can secure your first data science work!”
DataMonkey — “Interactively learn SQL and Excel for Data Analysis with real-world examples and complete immersion in the workplace.”
Language Learning (47–53)
Platforms, apps, websites, and tools for learning a new language:
Duolingo —“Everyone can Duolingo with their free mobile app or site and a few minutes a day. Learn 30+ languages online with science-based bite-size lessons.”
Lingvist — “Lingvist is an adaptive language-learning platform that has been available in a public free beta version for international users since 2014. Lingvist will deliver introductory English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Estonian courses in a variety of languages starting in October 2020.”
Busuu — “Busuu is a web, iOS, and Android language learning app that allows users to communicate with native speakers in 12 languages currently available.”
Memrise —“Thousands of video clips of native speakers, as well as fun and effective games to practice your skills, help you learn a language. Start learning on the web or through our mobile apps!”
Babbel — “Babbel is a brand-new way to learn a language. The all-encompassing learning system blends effective teaching approaches with cutting-edge technology.”
CoffeeStrap —“A more effective language exchange by conversing with people who are similar to you, you will learn how to speak fluently.”
OpenCulture/Free Language Lessons — “A free resource for learning 48 languages.”
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