There are any number of good resources for learning to play a musical instrument online and two of the best are Guitarlessons.com and Harmonica4kids.com. Both are oriented towards the absolute beginner and both are totally free. If you are like me and have a lingering desire →
Learn to meditate with OnlineMeditation.org’s free online meditation courses, videos, and MP3’s
Onlinemeditation is a great site that will help you get into the larger universe of meditation and self-discovery and improvement. It costs absolutely nothing and is a veritable bottomless well of information on meditation, methods and practical advice. Have you ever watched someone meditate? Those who →
Ten of the best FREE online education resources that you should know about
We recently published an article that listed the free online learning resources offered by the best 40 colleges in America (here). In the process of doing so, we came into contact with all of the major, most important and professional FREE online education sites on the internet. →
Learn a new language for free with Duolingo: a FREE web service with innovative new teaching methods
Duolingo is a new, free web site that helps you to learn a new language. Based on tried and true methods of repetition, visual recognition, and modern speech recognition technology, Duolingo offers a no-cost way to become fluent in a fun and stress-free way. In today’s →
Take FREE online courses from the TOP 40 colleges in the US
Online education is ubiquitous, it seems, and has a lot to recommend it, such as the convenience of learning when and where you want, and the fact that there are so many free courses out there. However, many online schools seem like they suddenly came out →
Study almost any subject online with others for free with OpenStudy
OpenStudy is a free web site that helps you connect with other people on the Internet to help you study online via Q&A. It is possibly one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time, because it is so simple and powerful in →
Learn to type faster with Z-Type: a fun, top-scrolling shoot em up
Would you like to learn to type faster? Do you believe that you can do so while playing a game? If your answer to the first question is yes, then let me answer the second one for you: yes, you can learn to be a much →
Educate and entertain yourself or others with WikipediaMaze
WikipediaMaze is a fun little web site that will take you on a journey that is both educational as well as fun, by turning Wikipedia and its various pages into a maze, of sorts. Mazes can be created by the users of WikipediaMaze and then voted →
Supercharge your web cam with SplitCam: add effects, broadcast to IM services, use with multiple programs at once, etc.
SplitCam is a free the program that not only allows you to split the output of your web cam but also allows you to do that nearly anything else you can think of with your web cam, such as adding effects to live video, using your →
Learn Ruby for free with HacketyHack
Hackety Hack is another great site that teaches you how to program, for free. Specifically, it teaches the Ruby programming language. There’s tons of lessons on there already and they are constantly adding more. Hackety Hack is available for Mac and Windows. Hackety Hack is another →
Teach your children to read using phonics – for free – at ReadingBear.org
Reading Bear is a completely free website that teaches you (or your children) how to read. It uses the most basic and simple parts of reading, called phonics or phonetics, to teach them not only how to recognize words but how to read new ones without →
Take a free technology course online at Udacity.com
Udacity is a free online university with a focus on the world of technology. It was started by Stanford University-affiliated roboticists, and could quite easily be the future of online education. Their mission is to make education available to the masses for free, on a scope →
