#online learning resources

[hellyeahscarleteen]

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[simplitaught]

The Best Online Learning Resources for Nowadays

The world of AI and virtual education is constantly evolving and growing. Whether you want to learn new skills or explore a subject or topic, online learning resources offer endless solutions. You can also complete an entire course on such platforms and save money compared to traditional classroom learning.

When students were forced out of school, it was challenging for them to find places to learn and develop new skills. The internet, however, saved the day, and many institutions started offering resources for online learning. In addition, many online platforms have made courses and training easier than before. Distance learning is a perfect way for most students to continue their education, so we’ve put together a list of online learning resources to help you find the best fit.

List of Top Online Learning Resources

1. Bloc

Bloc is an intensive option for students who want to learn quickly. It focuses on web development and offers a highly structured program running 25 hours per week over several months instead of short courses or lectures.

2. Canvas Network

Canvas Network provides open, online courses from educators worldwide. Canvas Learning Management System powers it and offers a place and platform for teachers, students, and institutions to come together and chat their courses for professional development, personal growth, and educational inquiry.

3. Khan Academy

Khan Academy provides an entirely free educational library of micro-lectures. It is a non-profit online platform focused on traditional academic subjects like humanities, science, mathematics, economics, and computer programming. Since the forum is free to use, anyone can get a taste of the topic before moving on to more advanced courses elsewhere.

4. SimpliTaught

SimpliTaught is an edTech platform offering curated content around key learning concepts. It offers opportunities for students to learn from the best educators worldwide. Learners can choose which key concept or course they want to take, and the AI-driven platform gives them a highly personalized learning experience based on their preferences and interests.

Also, educators, content creators, and institutions can come on the platform to create their courses to reach a vast majority of students and benefit from the AI+ML engine that lets them promote their courses, lesson plans, videos, audio, and other learning materials. SimpliTaught helps you to create, learn, and collaborate.

5. Coursera

One of the most well-known names in online education is Coursera. The platform has a vast array of online learning resources with a global roster of universities and partners offering more than 3,900 specialized courses. Most of the courses are free, or learners can use them to earn a degree from an accredited institution.

6. edX

edX is an educational platform that Harvard and MIT founded. It has taught more than twenty million people since its inception. The platform is a global non-profit organization that features courses from educators and universities all over the world in subjects such as computer science, engineering, languages, biology, marketing, electronics, and writing.

7. Academic Earth

Academic Earth is a repository of free online video lectures and courses from the world’s top universities and colleges. Students can find specific courses in many subjects and search by universities to learn what they are interested in. It is a smart search tool and an excellent site to start your academic journey.

8. Drawspace

Drawspace is an educational tool offering high-quality art lessons for all skill levels. Experienced art teachers design these lessons. They provide complete courses and individual classes to help students master different drawing techniques.

9. LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning offers subscriptions starting at $19.99 per month. It provides learners with extensive video skills and a tutorial library. Once you have subscribed, the services also include LinkedIn’s Premium Career features to assist you in growing your career.

10. Udacity

Udacity is a 100% online platform with a strong focus on technology. It has a small but well-crafted collection of courses. If you are looking to learn the latest tech skills, data science, AI, or cloud computing at home, Udacity’s data science program has instructors from companies such as Facebook and Salesforce. In addition, under the “nano degree” program, Udacity allows you to pay monthly for your courses. Their classes come with tech support, career services, and real-world projects.

11. Udemy

Udemy is well known for teaching and learning online. The company offers courses ranging from $10 to $500 based on your chosen class and educator. Most of their courses are inexpensive but costs quickly scale depending on the complexity of the subject matter. It gets a little expensive once you take more than one class on the platform.

12. Open Culture

Open Culture is a website that collects audiobooks, ebooks, textbooks, and other educational materials to support lifelong learning with free classes, videos, and audio. The non-profit educational site finds free learning resources from across the internet and gathers them under one platform. They make these materials available for students to quickly find what they want to learn.

Final Thoughts!

Online learning provides learners with chances to pursue their education and upscale their skills at their own pace and will. Whether you are just starting out or a professional who wants to upgrade your skills and work simultaneously, online learning resources help you tailor your education to your needs.

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back to basics

mostly free resources to help you learn the basics that i've gathered for myself so far that i think are cool

everyday

gcfglobal - about the internet, online safety and for kids, life skills like applying for jobs, career planning, resume writing, online learning, today's skills like 3d printing, photoshop, smartphone basics, microsoft office apps, and mac friendly. they have core skills like reading, math, science, language learning - some topics are sparse so hopefully they keep adding things on. great site to start off on learning.

handsonbanking - learn about finances. after highschool, credit, banking, investing, money management, debt, goal setting, loans, cars, small businesses, military, insurance, retirement, etc.

bbc - learning for all ages. primary to adult. arts, history, science, math, reading, english, french, all the way to functional and vocational skills for adults as well, great site!

education.ket - workplace essential skills

general education

mathsgenie - GCSE revision, grade 1-9, math stages 1-14, provides more resources! completely free.

khan academy - pre-k to college, life skills, test prep (sats, mcat, etc), get ready courses, AP, partner courses like NASA, etc. so much more!

aleks - k-12 + higher ed learning program. adapts to each student.

biology4kids - learn biology

cosmos4kids - learn astronomy basics

chem4kids - learn chemistry

physics4kids - learn physics

numbernut - math basics (arithmetic, fractions and decimals, roots and exponents, prealgebra)

education.ket - primary to adult. includes highschool equivalent test prep, the core skills. they have a free resource library and they sell workbooks. they have one on work-life essentials (high demand career sectors + soft skills)

youtube channels

the organic chemistry tutor

khanacademy

crashcourse

tabletclassmath

2minmaths

kevinmathscience

professor leonard

greenemath

mathantics

3blue1brown

literacy

readworks - reading comprehension, build background knowledge, grow your vocabulary, strengthen strategic reading

chompchomp - grammar knowledge

tutors

not the "free resource" part of this post but sometimes we forget we can be tutored especially as an adult. just because we don't have formal education does not mean we can't get 1:1 teaching! please do you research and don't be afraid to try out different tutors. and remember you're not dumb just because someone's teaching style doesn't match up with your learning style.

cambridge coaching - medical school, mba and business, law school, graduate, college academics, high school and college process, middle school and high school admissions

preply - language tutoring. affordable!

revolutionprep - math, science, english, history, computer science (ap, html/css, java, python c++), foreign languages (german, korean, french, italian, spanish, japanese, chinese, esl)

varsity tutors - k-5 subjects, ap, test prep, languages, math, science & engineering, coding, homeschool, college essays, essay editing, etc

chegg - biology, business, engineering/computer science, math, homework help, textbook support, rent and buying books

learn to be - k-12 subjects

for languages

lingq - app. created by steve kaufmann, a polygot (fluent in 20+ languages) an amazing language learning platform that compiles content in 20+ languages like podcasts, graded readers, story times, vlogs, radio, books, the feature to put in your own books! immersion, comprehensible input.

flexiclasses - option to study abroad, resources to learn, mandarin, cantonese, japanese, vietnamese, korean, italian, russian, taiwanese hokkien, shanghainese.

fluentin3months - bootcamp, consultation available, languages: spanish, french, korean, german, chinese, japanese, russian, italian.

fluenz - spanish immersion both online and in person - intensive.

pimsleur - not tutoring** online learning using apps and their method. up to 50 languages, free trial available.

incase time has passed since i last posted this, check on the original post (not the reblogs) to see if i updated link or added new resources. i think i want to add laguage resources at some point too but until then, happy learning!!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

man someone in the notes of that AI post left a several paragraph long response like “but what if students don’t know how to write well? what if they’re socioeconomically disadvantaged and never got good writing instruction? they should be allowed to use AI” no they fucking should not because that is not going to help them develop their writing or benefit from writing instruction if they’re not fucking doing any writing themselves! a student who does their own work and gets a low grade but still actually practices writing is learning at least ten times more than a student who just plugs the prompt into chatgpt and doesn’t write at all

[judassmyvirtue]

Hey folks, just dropping some resources here for those of you who, like me, are always on the hunt for free reading material, whether it's for research or just to satisfy your curiosity. Check these out:

Library of Congress: Absolute goldmine for academic researches and historical documents. You can spend hours diving into their collections.

Z-library: A treasure trove of books, articles, and papers on pretty much any topic you can think of. Quick downloads, no fuss.

Project Gutenberg: Free e-books galore, especially if you're into classics. Saved me from many a boring commute.

Internet Archive: A digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, plus archived web pages. Endless hours of browsing joy.

Google Books: Sometimes you just need a quick peek inside a book without committing to buying it. Google Books has got your back.

Google Scholar: It scours through scholarly sources, journals, theses, and more. Just be ready to sift through some dense material.

JSTOR: Another heavyweight in the academic world. JSTOR is packed with scholarly articles, books, and primary sources across various disciplines. Some stuff may be behind a paywall, but there's still plenty to explore for free.

Newspaper Archive: Want to browse through historical newspapers? This site has a massive collection spanning centuries and covering a wide range of topics. Perfect for digging up primary sources.

Newspapers.com: Need more historical newspapers? Look no further.

Perseus Digital Library: Focuses on ancient Greco-Roman materials, perfect for those deep dives into classical history.

Digital Public Library of America: Another treasure trove of digitized materials, including photos, manuscripts, and more.

Europeana: European cultural heritage online. Images, texts, the whole shebang.

DOAJ: Open access journals. DOAJ indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed open access research journals.

Open Library: Another digital library offering over 1.7 million free eBooks.

Librivox: Audiobooks for when your eyes need a break.

National Archives (UK): Offers access to a wealth of historical documents, including government records, maps, photographs, and more.

Sci-Hub: For the rebels. Access to scholarly articles.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Looking for free scholarly books? DOAB has got you covered with a vast collection.

Digital Commons Network: Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR): Find open access repositories worldwide.

Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France): French flair for your research.

DigitalNZ: Your gateway to New Zealand's digital heritage.

[izicodes]

Harvard University Free IT Courses | Resources ✨

While scrolling through Twitter, I saw some posts that highlighted some free IT courses and resources being offered by Harvard University! Harvard University offers a wide range of IT courses that are available to the public for free! Here are some of them!

1. Introduction to Computer Science - LINK

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

2. Web Programming with Python and JavaScript - LINK

This course dives more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

3. Mobile App Development with React Native - LINK

Learn about mobile app development with React Native, a popular framework maintained by Facebook that enables cross-platform native apps using JavaScript without Java or Swift.

4. Introduction to Game Development - LINK

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

5. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python - LINK

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Hope this helps someone and do check them out! 💻👍🏾💗

[beyond-a-name]

Polymour

I invented a word to describe someone you love

Polymour:

(noun) A person with whom you share a deep and intimate connection that is distinctly polyamorous and non-amatonormative; someone you love and share a relationship with, especially a relationship-anarchistic, non-romantic, and/or queerplatonic relationship

denotes love, significance, non-exclusivity, and a freedom from role-defined relationships

I think that practical use is the single best way to learn a new word, and certainly the best way to create one, so here's the gap in my life this word was made to fill.

So I've been in love with two people for a while, and we're all a-spec and very poly, and I'm very relationship anarchist. Relationship anarchy is in fact the only relationship model that makes any sense to me, that accurately works well with how I feel and doesn't feel like a trap, contract, or obligation.

I don't really like the word "partner", but these two people I loved and connected with, one of them did use the word partner and I wanted the validity of their other relationships. We will call this person MV.

The other person I connected with and loved, well they felt even more trapped by romance than I did, and it was clear we cared about each other very much, but "partner" was never going to be a word to enter their vocabulary, and I wanted to share in that too. We will call this person V.

So, I was MV's partner and V's friend, but to me, these felt the same. I loved them the same way, and our relationship structure was identical. They were (and are) both deeply important to me, but both words seemed insufficient. Speaking to anyone else, "partner" felt more obligatory than the way MV so freeingly used it, and "friend" sounded way more distant than the intimacy V put behind it. I didn't like either word, but more than anything, it hurt that I couldn't just say I loved them. It upset me that I loved them the same but our words were different.

What really sealed it was talking to a colleague about my two loves, I said MV was my partner and friend, and that V would never describe themself in those terms but that I loved them both the same. My colleague listened, and was happy for me, and it really seemed like they got it!

The next time I saw them, they had bought me two movie tickets, for me and my partner. It was sweet, but I could only think about how to upgrade the tickets to include all three of us, thinking those two would each go to Mv and V and I'd buy my own ticket to share treat them both to the movies and- And it hurt.

It was only a few days after that I invented this word in the shower. And it works so beautifully for us!!!!! V could relax because they knew that our love for them wasn't going to be the amatonormative trap we'd both suffered, and MV was just as relieved as I was to have a word that wasn't still so romancey and role-defined. We have a way to tell people that we're important to each other without worrying about those people's pressures or expectations, because well, we invented it.

Like everything good about relationship anarchy, instead of roles and contracts or hierarchy, we just get to focus on the love we feel.

When someone hasn't heard this word (because they obviously haven't), instead of managing someone else's baggage, we just get to teach them how we all love each other.

So it works well, for me and my polymours.... <3

[puppyeared]

Do you think you’ll ever do art commissions?

^^

im not really sure. art commissions would let me work at my own pace and make money on the side, but im worried of things thatll get in the way

firstly im more used to drawing for myself. ive drawn other ppls characters and fanart, but those are on my own whims and pace and i dont have to negotiate things with anyone. drawing for someone else can be helpful since i work best with instructions, but im not very keen on doing things im not interested in and i might be hard to work with

i also avoid using online payments when i can, so im apprehensive around making online transactions. etransfer policies arent very kind to artists and theres also the risk of disclosing my personal information

given the industry im going into, im aware that im gonna have to figure out how to tackle these sooner or later, and maybe then ill be confident enough to manage commissions. but right now its fuzzy

[virromanus]

Where Can I Learn Latin Online?

Here are the various avenues you can go to learn Latin online.

Latin Derivatives. Find over 1750 Latin derivatives, along with definitions and usage in sentences.

Conjuguemos. Teachers and students can use this site to learn Latin (among other languages) through games and activities, which are automatically graded. They request a small payment, but will waive the fee if you cannot afford it.

Linney's Latin Class.com. William E. Linney literally wrote the book on teaching Latin and shares lessons for self-learners and homeschoolers here that include pages from his text, lectures, and homework.

Latin Language Builds Powerful English Vocabulary. Get an overview of Latin and tips for learning it easily along with links to helpful resources.

Latin: The Language of Rome Fun Worksheet #1. For $1 you can download this Latin worksheet to use personally or in the classroom. This teacher also has other versions of Latin worksheets available for the same price.

Learn Latin Quickly. This website is run by an individual as a hobby, but provides tons of information on Latin and learning Latin.

KET Distance Learning – Latin 1. Go through the lessons here in your own time, then move up to Latin 2 and Latin 3 after completing this class.

Beginners' Latin. This online tutorial doesn't require you know any Latin and steps you through the basics with twelve lessons, reference material, activities, and more.

Latin Grammar. A great resource for learning Latin, this site provides information on the five noun declensions and the four verb conjugations as well as several irregularities.

Latinitium. An online website to start learning Latin with a free e‑mail course from Latin teacher and speaker Daniel Pettersson, M.A.

Polymathy/ScorpioMartianus. A Youtube channel by Latin speaker Luke Ranieri, who teaches Latin for beginners hosted live on his YouTube Channel.

[ashs-nerd-den]

studyclix

Made by Irish students.

Provides:

Quizzes on different topics

Advice podcasts

Podcasts on Shakespearean texts and slyvia plath ect available on the YouTube channel

Has past exam questions

Has sample exam answers

Has ask sections where you can get tips and other resources from other students

Has a sister site called study notes, where people post their notes on different topics, so that you can get resources if your teacher isn't doing the best job, you were absent, or just don't understand the topic

It has breakdown videos of topics

Subject breakdowns

It's free

It also has a really funny Instagram

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Funding update: We're still short

Co-director Jacob here, with an update on our current fundraising efforts. We sure appreciate your understanding this interruption to the award-winning sex and relationships education programming we’d much rather be spending our time providing for you! Just over 200 wonderful folks have made a donation or become a recurring donor since we started, but we are still short of our goal! We’re still 171 new recurring donors and 5K short of 15K we need to pay our most basic bills through the end of 2024 to help us avoid cuts to our staffing and services in 2025. We'll need just around as many people as have already pitched in to close the economic gaps we're up against, and help from people who value what we do to close them. You know the drill! If you can pitch in financially, and especially as a recurring donor, we’d love and appreciate your help at any level. If you can’t, or you already have and want to help some more, making your own posts about us, why you value us, and directing your circles to our work and where to donate to support it can go such a long way. Thank you for keeping us trucking, especially to those of you who have donated now or in the past, and those of you loudly banging this drum for us out here! Here's the link to donate for yourself or to direct others to:

[paintedkinzy-88]

Has the dragon tots from your COI au gone through silly temporary hoards before finding their current ones?

Cause i saw this tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Rrn2MY/

And i just immediately thought of mikey and donnie

(The TikTok link, as easier access for y’all ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)

I am so in. But maybe not in the way you think—

I’m thinking Raph got his hoard first, which was a huge learning curve for all of them. Why did the dragonet suddenly just start hogging all the plushies?? Why was he genuinely struggling so hard when Splinter tried to teach him about sharing?? Like it’s clear he knows, he shares everything, even their sparse food! Why PLUSHIES of all things??

Their dad had a lot of deep conversations with Raphie to try and make sense of it, assuming it was just a child thing he never heard of, or possibly even a sign of something like autism or ADHD? He didn’t know! He was no psychiatrist! Could a dragon even HAVE something like that???

But the way Raph described the feeling didn’t seem to match up with anything Splinter could find online. It took a lot to figure out it was just a dragon’s instincts (including Splinter risking his life to get into the Mystic Library in order to find SOMETHING on dragons… In the end, that book was extremely helpful, though very basic).

When they finally figured out what a hoard was, Leo and Mikey (and sometimes Donnie, but he got his real hoard pretty quick too) started to choose fake hoards that changed CONSTANTLY. One week it’s action figures, the next it’s comic books, and then it was rocks. Whatever they wanted, they just claimed hoard.

Splinter eventually stopped taking them very seriously, until eventually the hoards they claimed lasted a lot longer than just a week or two XD

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[merverelli]

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