Alternative Learning

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Academic Earth, a site which offers the most complete video courses I've seen on the net. Most of the courses are series of lectures from universities like Princeton, Yale and Berkeley.

Youtube Edu, a educational section of youtube which also contains lectures and other various educational videos. I'm not as fond of this one in comparison to the site above.

Watching video lectures will not give you a complete education in a certain subject, but they're definitely helpful as supplement material for your studies and learning more about your subject of interest. For an example see: Learning Through Multiple Avenues


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When studying an online course, I find it helpful to study a topic from a few sources, or supplement a course I'm taking with additional material. For example, I'm currently studying to be a Certified Professional Trainer in a free course offered by ACT.  ACT's certification is quite revolutionary as they offer it free of charge as long as you complete their 300 page textbook and pass their online exam (see previous post: Get Certified).

However, as a suplement to what I'm learning in Physical Training I'm watching lectures on General Human Anatomy from Academic Earth, a website that offers sets of lectures from various universities on a host of different subjects.

I think this is one great way to get a well rounded and (in this case) free education, find your desired course ( I prefer those that offer a diploma or certification at the end), and then supplement your studies with university courses on that subject, you'll be sure to get a well rounded education in that field.

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