What are your general online learning resources?

www.thesurvivalpodcast.com : It’s mostly to do with gardening and self-sufficiency, with a little bit of good old emergency preparedness thrown in. I like it because the guy isn’t batshit crazy wearing a tinfoil hat, but rather takes the approach of doing things that will be beneficial no matter what.

A variety of Youtube channels I can’t post right now, because my work computer blocks the site.

Various blogs, that I can’t get to my list of, again for that same reason.

www.mentalfloss.com is awesome for little useless facts and tidbits.

I’ll add to my own question

Itunes has a new category called U tune where you can download university lectures and educations references.

I also have a text to speech function, I’m normally too lazy to read a book on everything I think what is that so I search the topic plus .pdf and download the best pfd for me, I put it through the program and listen to it to work or cycling

On youtube I’m subscribed to Thunderf00t, khanacademy, potholer54 ‏ and other similar users

plus much more

Khan Academy is pretty sweet.

When I have a question, I generally start with Wikipedia for an overview, bearing in mind its unreliable quality. From there I can track down references or research specific subtopics. Wikipedia is often good for supplying me with keywords to guide further searches.

In general I much prefer to learn from books, which I can read anywhere and in any position and can mark with highlighter, pencil, and Post-its, but my recent hybrid and online college classes have sent me to iTunes U for lectures and supplementary videos. It’s a pretty cool resource.

I always start with Wikipeida. Sometimes its external links / references turn out to be useful, sometimes not. Next I try a google search using ”.edu” as a qualifier—this filters out a lot of junk, as academic sites usually contain reliable information rather than typical internet garbage.

I haven’t got the patience to watch videos, which are tedious at best and a waste of time at worst. Besides, I’m a visual learner—I have to READ and study DIAGRAMS in order to learn stuff. I have a large library at home which, though increasingly obsolete in our online world, still gives me plenty of starting places.

I’m much like Jeruba – Wikipedia for a start, then I branch out to the citings and things with .edu. I haven’t looked at iTunes U yet, but I’m going to.

Wikipedia

iTunes U it’s amazing. You can watch lectures from ivy league classes (or other schools) for free. If you figure what it would cost for the classes themselves, you’re literally getting access to millions of dollars of free content.