I need something to occupy my mind in the evenings and I'd like to study a subject of interest to me (natural sciences of some kind, or even music). "Why not just read" I hear you say: The trouble is that in order for me to do it, I really need it to be structured, otherwise I just won't do it.
Any suggestions? I've looked at the OU but their course are still pretty pricey.
PS: I'm not really looking for this to be a career thing, at the moment.
Buy a guitar and go to justinguitar?
MIT do free on line courses. Don't know if they've anything in your area of interest but may be worth a look.
Buy a guitar and go to justinguitar?
I have two - an Epiphone Les Paul 60s Tribute Plus and an Aria electro-acoustic.
There's lots on the MIT website (assuming you mean the MITOpenCourseWare site?). Have you done one?
See http://www.mooc-list.com/ for some open online courses across a range of subjects.
Yes that's the site. I've worked my way through quite a few of them over the years. Mostly engineering and computers. Obviously tailored to American kids but very good resource. OU prices are now ridiculous IMHO
If this was a thread about designing a logo the graphic designers would be all over it complaining about getting something for nothing.
Coursera.com
Hundreds of very structured online courses on all manner of subjects.
All for free unless you want a certificate of completion.
iTunesU or whatever it's called. Has millions of different structured learning stuff. Can do it from a laptop or an ipad if you have one.
I've done loads, mainly computery stuff but they have everything - music, history, languages, etc.
That MITOpenCourseWare looks interesting, but what is the structure? There doesn't seem to be any organization of a path of courses to follow under the subject headers.
That's my concern msp. I doubt I would stick with it if I didn't have deadlines etc.
I wasn't looking for free courses per se, just ones that aren't as pricey as the OU or other Uni's and Colleges. I appreciate that anything resulting in a qualification will cost.
That Coursera site looks good.
Khan Academy have loads and loads of courses
[url= https://www.khanacademy.org ]https://www.khanacademy.org[/url]
Less professional and yet possibly more structured would be the University of Reddit. People there donate their time and effort to provide online courses on absolutely everything, from learning to draw to speaking Korean.
[url= http://universityofreddit.com/ ]http://universityofreddit.com/[/url]
[url= http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit ]http://www.reddit.com/r/UniversityofReddit[/url]