Saylor

While sites like Coursera and Udacity have been drawing the most attention on the free education front these days, Saylor has largely flown under the radar. Created in 2008, the site offers nearly 250 free courses online, with topics centered on the 10 highest enrollment majors in the U.S. In addition to taking classes, learners can participate in discussion forums (organized by topic), track courses and print transcripts, and may soon even be able to access free textbooks.

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Coursera

Coursea is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you’ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you.

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Udacity – Learn. Think. Do.

Free online courses in Computer Science, Programming, Mathematics, Science, and Entrepreneurship. If you’re a high school student looking to get ahead before going to college, you will have the chance to take college- level courses and become truly college ready. They have options to earn college credit and you will also have a chance to take subjects not offered at your school.

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Learnthat.com – free web training and tutorials

Learnthat.com was founded in 1999 by Jeremy Reis, founder & president of That Network, a Lancaster, South Carolina based Web publishing company. Learnthat.com offers free web training and tutorials in a variety of business, technology, and personal topics. Jeremy saw a lack of great free training options and started Learnthat.com to provide tutorials in topics ranging from QuickBooks accounting software to how to throw a wedding shower. There are a lot of great resources related to website improvement and marketing strategies.

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TVO

Similar to PBS, the Ontario-based television station offers many of the same educational resources and opportunities for learning. Even if you can’t tune in live, you can take advantage of dozens of videos on topics like science, nature, business, tech, education, and culture. Connected to TVO is Big Ideas, a site that offers videos that touch on important and engaging topics like mathematics, economics, and even urban design. Other resources include educational tools for parents and kids, civics education on Canadian government, and access to loads of compelling documentaries.

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GCF LearnFree

This North Carolina-based site is produced by Goodwill Industries and focuses on helping people from all walks of life build skills in technology, literacy, and math that will help them find work. All classes offered by the site are entirely free, and even come complete with mobile apps that make it possible to learn on-the-go. Currently, there are over 750 free lessons that teach everything from how to use Microsoft Office to basic addition and subtraction.

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Alison

Alison offers free online courses and certification through 400 different courses in 10 different course categories. Launched in 2007, the site helps people from around the world earn certification in topics like legal studies, psychology, health studies, project management, and human resources. All content is free but to get a copy of your certification, you’ll have to shell out about $20.

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