We live in a glorious time of bounty when it comes to educational resources for the curious and ambitious. Here are some ideas to point you in the direction of life-long learning.

1. Educational Resources
to Supplement and Accelerate your Learning
and Understanding

2. Autodidact
• a self-taught person
• For autodidacts to be successful in their self-teaching,
they must possess self-discipline and
reflective capability.
• The best thing we can learn is how to learn
• There are so many great tools available to us
via the web
• Before you ask a question: google it

4. New Reference and Research Tools
• Search
– Google, Bing
• Wikipedia
• Websites
• News sites
• RSS feeds
• Twitter feeds
• Email lists
• Blogs

5. MOOCs
• A massive open online
course is an online
course aimed at unlimited
participation and open access
via the web. In addition to
traditional course materials
such as videos, readings,
and problem sets, MOOCs
provide interactive user
forums that help build a
community for students,
professors, and teaching
assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a
recent development
in distance education which
began to emerge in 2012

6. Coursera
• Coursera offers massive open
online courses (MOOCs).
Coursera works with
universities to make some of
their courses available online,
and offers courses
in physics, engineering, human
ities, medicine, biology, social
sciences, mathematics, busine
ss, computer science, and
other subjects. Coursera has
an official mobile
app for iOS and Android. As of
October 2014, Coursera has 10
million users in 839 courses
from 114 institutions.

7. edX
• EdX is a MOOC provider and online
learning platform. It hosts online
university-level courses in a wide
range of disciplines to a worldwide
audience, some at no charge. It also
conducts research into learning
based on how people use its
platform. EdX differs from other
MOOC platforms,
such Coursera and Udacity, in that it
is nonprofit and runs on an open-source
software platform.
• There are currently more than 60
schools, nonprofits, corporations,
and international organizations that
offer or plan to offer courses on the
edX website. As of 22 October 2014,
edX has more than 3 million users
taking over 300 courses online

8. Udacity
• Udacity is a for-profit
educational organization
founded by Sebastian Thrun,
David Stavens, and Mike
Sokolsky
offering MOOCs. According to
Thrun, the origin of the name
Udacity comes from the
company's desire to be
"audacious for you, the
student". While it originally
focused on offering university-style
courses, it now focuses
more on vocational courses for
professionals.

9. Khan Academy
• www.khanacademy.org
• Sal Khan
• Khan Academy is a non-profit
educational
organization created in
2006 by educator Salman
Khan to provide "a free,
world-class education for
anyone, anywhere." The
organization produces
micro lectures in the form
of YouTube videos.

10. Skillsyouneed.com
• Develop The Skills You
Need For Life
• Whether you are at work, a
job seeker, a student, a
teacher, a parent or just
interested in developing
your key skills, you will find
a wealth of information
about essential life skills
here; information and
resources that will help you
to improve your personal
and professional life.
• SkillsYouNeed is split into
six distinct sections:
• Personal Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Writing Skills
• Numeracy Skills

11. Dummies.com
• About For Dummies: Making
Everything Easier
• With more than 250 million
books in print and more than
1,800 titles, For Dummies is the
most widely recognized and
highly regarded reference series
in the world. Since 1991, For
Dummies has helped millions
make everything easier. Now,
Dummies.com is bringing the
how-to brand you know and trust
online, where you'll find our
proven experts presenting even
the most complex subjects in
plain English.

12. TED
• TED (Technology,
Entertainment, Design)
is a global set of
conferences
• the talks have been
offered for free viewing
online
• As of April 2014, over
1,700 talks are available
free online.

13. YouTube
• YouTube is a video-sharing
website
• Most of the content on
YouTube has been
uploaded by individuals,
but media corporations
and other organizations
offer some of their
material via YouTube
• An archive of historical
and current videos and
information

14. News
• NY Times.com
• NPR
– Morning Edition
– All Things Considered
• CNN.com
• Huffington Post

15. Periodicals
• Economist
• Atlantic
• Mother Jones
• New Yorker
• Rolling Stone
– Matt Taiibbi

16. Instructure
• Instructure is an
educational technology
company and the
developer of the
Canvas learning
management system,
which is a comprehensive
cloud-native software
• Instructure also
developed Canvas
Network, a massive open
online course platform.

17. TeamTreehouse.com
• Learn how to build
websites & apps, write
code or start a business.

18. Desire2Learn
• Desire2Learn
Incorporated is a
provider of enterprise
eLearning solutions and
develops online
Learning Management
Systems used at more
than 1100 institutions
in 20 different countries
around the world.

19. Twitter
• How To Use Twitter As A
Learning Tool
• Twitter is a powerful social
media tool used for micro-blogging
and social
networking. Google the stats
of Twitter use and you will see
numbers in the millions and
billions. Twitter is hugely
successful as it enables users
to disseminate information
quickly and easily through
Tweets. It also makes
searching for content easy
through user generated
#hashtags.

20. Social Media
Linkedin
Facebook Twitter

21. John Cousins
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