As more and more people are turning to Internet to supplement their courses and independently further their education, more apps are becoming available for free or low cost to help in a variety of academic subjects. There’s even tools available to help with everything from writing your papers and planning for projects, to giving you access to instant information in any subject you might be interested in. He ...

In our increasingly global culture, being able to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds is quickly becoming more important than ever. Whether you’re learning English as a second language, or broadening your horizons with Spanish, Russian, Chinese, or Swahili, there is a site out there with free lessons you can access from the comfort of your own home!  Here’s a list of free online language learni ...

Open courseware offered by top universities allow self-learners to access high quality educational materials for no cost. Whether expanding your knowledge on a variety of topics or sampling the programs offered at universities, free courses can benefit you. The following universities offer free college courses online to anyone wishing to complete them. University credit is not offered for any of the free co ...

With the increased usage of smart phones and the hardware goes into the mobile, now dual core processor mobile are in the market, demand for sophisticated apps(applications) is growing now than before. So is the necessity of courses on app development for both the leading mobile platforms iOS and Android. While Stanford university has started an exclusive course on iPhone app development since 2010, Harvard ...

Most of the best schools or colleges, in the world are sharing their classroom recorded video lectures through youtube. Some of theses courses are not just video lectures but has assignments, slides, quizzes as well. Universities include MIT, Yale, NPTEL, UC Berkeley, Stanford, McGill and many more. Lecture videos from individuals like Salman Khan of Khan academy , Patrick Dixon are also included. I have ma ...

So far we have seen video courses from MIT, Stanford, Yale and Harvard but here comes NPTEL, an initiative by Govt. of India. As of today NPTEL has more than 130 courses on 10 subjects. All the videos are currently hosted on YouTube as well, subscribe to nptel youtube channel and get updated about latest videos and courses. Now i am listing the courses available as of now. All the courses are college level ...