Take a Class - Formal, Informal or Just For Fun
Bishop State Community College
Community Activities Program - City of Mobile's Parks and Recreation Department offers classes in many disciplines
Coursera - Free, online courses offered by universities worldwide
Excel Easy - Tutorials (Introduction, Basics, Functions, Data Analysis and VBA) teaches you how to use Excel
GetEducated! - Online counseling service and listings of online colleges, internet universities, and training institutes
iTunes U - World’s largest digital catalog of free education content. Participating universities include Harvard, Cambridge, Columbia, Princeton and MIT
Khan Academy - Not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere
Learn Out Loud Free Course Collection - +400 free online courses available on audio and video
Learn Out Loud Podcasts - Educational podcasts
MIT Open CourseWare - Course materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on online and free
Open Culture - Cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community
Road Scholar - Opportunities to travel and learn, formerly known as Elderhostel
Spring Hill College Continuing Studies Program
Udacity - Offers the chance to take free courses from top professors
University of South Alabama School of Continuing Education and Special Programs - Opportunities for credit and non-credit classes at USA
Learn a Language
duolingo - learn a language for free. Apps also available
The English Zone - Help for English as a second language students
Foreign Service Institute - Courses cover +40 different languages
iLove Languages - Links to free online language lessons
MyLanguageExchange.com - Social networking site that matches up learners and native speakers online in small groups with lessons for onlinelearning
Just In Case You Were Wondering...
eHow.com - +30 categories for how-to advice from experts
General Chemistry Online! - Companion Notes, Chemistry Exam Survival Guide, an index of self-guided tutorials, quizzes, and drills on specific topics
HowCast.com -Free how-to videos and guides
How Stuff Works - Articles, quizzes, and puzzles
IFixIt.com - The free repair guide for everything, written by everyone.
Instructables - Cooking to metal working projects explained in videos
Investopedia - Tutorials and videos on money management and investing
Mental Floss - Interesting articles and facts
Music Education - Learn about the instruments, and how to read music
TED - Free informative talks by remarkable people
YouTube - "Lifelong learning" category in YouTube, where you'll learn more about the lifelong learning process from numerous sources.
Zooinverse - Citizen science experiments
School Tools
EasyBib - an easy way to create a bibliography
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University - +200 free resources for writing, research and grammar
SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Works Cited 4 U - Creates a formatted bibliography for you. MLA, APA, and Chicago style sheets included.
Free eBooks
Checkout eBooks from Mobile Public Library
Get Free Books
Free eBooks - Downloadable eBooks in html, pdf and txt formats. ePub and Mobi formats require a membership
NOLO Books Online - Popular sections of consumer legal books online to help you with legal issues
Bartleby.com - Searchable full text books ranging from Gray's Anatomy to poetry
Bullfinch's Mythology
Internet Sacred Text Archive - Freely archive of online books about religion, mythology, and folklore
Directory of Open Access Journals - Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
ManyBooks.Net - Download public domain books for a smart device or e-reader
Public Library of Science - Open access scholarly publication for science
Project Gutenberg - Download +33,000 free eBooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device
Shakespeare - Complete works
The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Resources For the Lifelong Learner
National Center for Creative Aging - Organization to help you live, learn, and stay creative
Next Avenue - To help you learn, grow, and become a better person as you move through life
