Free courses from top universities
Choose a subject of your choice, select the institution you want to learn from and join a course. There is no prerequisite knowledge required for most courses and you get access to various videos, transcripts and notes. You can even earn yourself a certificate of course completion from Edx if you do all the homework and pass the exam for a particular course.
https://www.edx.org
https://www.coursera.org/
Artistic skills
thevirtualinstructor.com - you can find a list of art lessons, tutorials, articles and videos curated from around the web.
instructables.com — where you can learn how to do stuff as diverse as watermelon carving, making jewellery, puppets, and costumes.
How to Draw by ArtelPlus (for iOS and Android) is a good place to start.
Cooking
Tips on basic cooking techniques at simplyrecipes.com (they also offer
free apps).
reluctantgourmet.com - the 'How to cook' tab will help you brush up on
roasting, poaching, grilling, frying, braising, baking and everything in
between.
A new language
The courses hosted on www.openculture.com are a pretty good place to start.
Duolingo - is another great place to learn Spanish, English, French, German, Portugese or Italian.
Computer programming
For javascript, jquery, PHP, Python and Ruby, head http://www.codeacademy.com/. The interactive website offers step-by-step instructions.
If you want to keep track of your course and resume from where you left off. A free iPad app called Treehouse can teach you Objective-C, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and SQL. .
Photography
To get started with the basics of photography, you should visit photographycourse.net.
At photo.net/learn - you'll find a handy collection of (regularly updated) articles and tutorials from photo professionals.
Choose a subject of your choice, select the institution you want to learn from and join a course. There is no prerequisite knowledge required for most courses and you get access to various videos, transcripts and notes. You can even earn yourself a certificate of course completion from Edx if you do all the homework and pass the exam for a particular course.
https://www.edx.org
https://www.coursera.org/
Artistic skills
thevirtualinstructor.com - you can find a list of art lessons, tutorials, articles and videos curated from around the web.
instructables.com — where you can learn how to do stuff as diverse as watermelon carving, making jewellery, puppets, and costumes.
How to Draw by ArtelPlus (for iOS and Android) is a good place to start.
Cooking
Tips on basic cooking techniques at simplyrecipes.com (they also offer
free apps).
reluctantgourmet.com - the 'How to cook' tab will help you brush up on
roasting, poaching, grilling, frying, braising, baking and everything in
between.
A new language
The courses hosted on www.openculture.com are a pretty good place to start.
Duolingo - is another great place to learn Spanish, English, French, German, Portugese or Italian.
Computer programming
For javascript, jquery, PHP, Python and Ruby, head http://www.codeacademy.com/. The interactive website offers step-by-step instructions.
If you want to keep track of your course and resume from where you left off. A free iPad app called Treehouse can teach you Objective-C, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and SQL. .
Photography
To get started with the basics of photography, you should visit photographycourse.net.
At photo.net/learn - you'll find a handy collection of (regularly updated) articles and tutorials from photo professionals.
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