Money for the Rest of Us

Who doesn’t love free stuff? I love anything free– free pens at career fairs, free food samples at the grocery store or Costco on Saturdays, free pennies on the street…
So, this week I am going to have a “Free Stuff Week.” Each day I’ll post on a topic about how to get things for free.

Today’s topic is free online courses/education.

I went to a number of sites and chose my favorites. If you want a longer list there are a few links at the bottom which list a huge number of free online courses:

My favorites:

University of California Berkeley: They have a lot of lectures on podcasts that you can download and listen to from as far as your ipod can travel.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT offers a much larger free online selection than most other universities. It doesn’t take very long to download all of the material for one course.

There are two sites that offer great free online language courses:
The BBC offers a variety of languages from Mandarin to Urdu to Greek.
French Pod Class sticks just to French, but they’re podcasts are extremely useful.

While it’s not a class, Barnes and Noble BookClub is also very cool.

U.S. Small Business Administration shows you how to write a business plan, register your company, and do marketing and taxes for your small business.

About and Lifehacker both have longer lists of classes if you can’t find what you’re looking for here.