Education in Social Era

I feel real happy when I see so many options for someone to get educated on the subjects they love. Best part - Most of them are free and shared here on Google+!

Most courses are from reputed colleges or Professors from reputed colleges. Gone are are the days of hoax universities and Private classes which were there just to rip you off.

I wish we had such tremendous opportunity 10 years back or a medium to learn. It's not too late, but at least its a start.

No one should not have an excuse today not to learn things that they really love!

Here are some of the bookmarks from my machine.

http://www.udacity.com/

http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php

http://lifehacker.com/5875092/plan-your-free-online-education-at-lifehacker-u-spring-semester-2012

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

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