Have you been wanting to upgrade your skill or enhance your knowledge on a certain subject but don’t know where to start? How about beginning with some free learning resources available online? Do you know that there are tones of full-fledged courseware just waiting for you to use them at absolutely no cost?

Many of these resources, which may be in the form of audio, video and/or PDF notes, are produced by universities as well as people who are passionate about sharing their knowledge. The range of materials available are mind boggling. From psychology to finance, you can get a good number of subjects that are being taught in schools and universities.

However, realistically, few people will have the motivation to complete an entire online courseware on their own. The more probable way of using these materials is to pick and choose the specific topics within the module that you’re interested in and delve in from there.

If you’re really serious about learning something, the best way is still to find a good source and pay for it. Not only will you have access to the knowledge of a teacher this way, the very act of paying with your money will push you to take learning seriously and make you want to get the most out of it.

Nevertheless, these free resources are still a great complement to books and paid courses for learning, self-improvement as well as research purposes. Listening or watching a different person going through the same subject can also help to fill in gaps in your knowledge which you might not have noticed.

Without further ado, here are eight hidden gems sprawling across different fields that I hope will get you excited about lifelong learning:

Free Learning Resources

1. Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers
   As the name implies, reflective practice is a systematic way of reviewing one’s experience and seeking ways to improve results by modifying the way knowledge is being applied. Through developing higher awareness in how knowledge is being used, professionals can combine practice and learning in a more effective way.

2. Introduction to Psychology
   How we learn by association? How memory works? How do children learn language? Find the answers to these questions and more in this free course from MIT.

3. Introduction to Balance Sheets
   Still baffled by the figures in your balance sheets? Clear your doubts once and for all with this Youtube video which makes use of a tangible example of a home purchase to illustrate this essential accounting concept. Note that it is just one of the 900 plus instructional videos produced by Salman Khan. If you’ve young children, get them to watch Khan’s videos on Science and Mathematics. They will thank you for it.

4. Writing and Reading Short Stories
   A good discussion on the process of writing, common challenges faced by writers, how to develop story from your personal experience, how to make characters come alive, and more.

5. The Anatomy Cookbook: A Dissection Guide with Recipes
   What do a kitchen and a dissection room have in common? You get to see organs being cut out in both places. This fun course uses familiar foods and recipes to give insights into different organs in a creative and surprisingly, non-gruesome way. But be forewarned that you might not look at your foods the same way ever again.

6. The Inflammatory Response
   A short and animated introduction to inflammation that even a child can appreciate.

7. Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
   Learn to speak simple sentences like Ni hao! (Hello!), Xie xie (Thank you) and Bu ke qi (You’re welcome) in no time with this basic introduction to Mandarin.

8. Dog Examination Techniques
   Find out how to conduct simple physical examination for your furry friend the way the vet does and save a trip (and some money) to the doc!

Have you come across online learning resources that are brilliant and useful? Share them with us in the comments. Thanks!

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