Education Guide
Organizations
National Education Association
Magazines
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The place to go for higher education news and views.
DIY Education
The Independent Scholars Handbook
Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars has made their handbook available online for free (PDF).
Self education resource with many links to online courses.
General
Thousands of video lectures from the world of academia.
Cambridge University video and audio casts.
If your kids are headed in this direction, have them enter to win a scholarship.
Good source of current articles.
A free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
“A parents guide to school and learning.”
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Series of video lectures at MIT.
Perennial favorite of the curious.
Lectures from leading scientists on such topics as stem cells to HIV to Biofuel.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments helps you see actual experiments.
Games created by kids, fitness challenges, recipes, articles on cool topics, etc.
Adult learning from the bash and boastful leader.
Free video lectures from the world’s leading scientists (so far more than 1200 authors and 1400 lectures).
Free university lectures from around the planet.
Library of Congress podcasts; such as End of European Colonial Empires, Robert E. Lee, and 1507 Waldseemuller World Map.Writing
Podcasts from Oxford University.
Great people telling their life stories.
Site archives collections of things you might otherwise never be able to see at your public library; Adult Mexican Comics; Marc Fisher’s record collection; Bibles stolen from hotel rooms.
A comprehensive collection of links to online classes in over 80 subjects. They also link to collections of free books and audiobooks.
UC Berkely School of Information
Media Center lectures available free online include “The internets we did not build,” “(Re)defining the public domain” and “The past and future of free online resources.”