Use These 4 Online Educational Tools and Learn New Skills

Do you feel that you need to spruce up your skill set lately?

Below is a list of free educational tools that cover many topics, including programming, entrepreneurship, entertainment and the sciences.

1. TED Talks

You may have heard of TED talks, with their inspiring slogan, Ideas worth spreading. The conference gathers great minds of science, philosophy,poetry, journalism and creative professions which emanate knowledge on technology, entertainment and design. The talks are available online. It's one of the best places to learn about the hottest new ideas and world truth, and is hence one of the most valuable learning tools around.

TED is an easy way to gain knowledge on stuff that interests you, or perhaps, stuff that you wouldn't have really read about before. It therefore serves as a gateway to new knowledge.

2. Khan Academy

Bill Gates had a vision of educational bliss when he was introduced to Salman Khan's project in 2006. The Khan Academy began when the MIT and Harvard Business school graduate was tutoring his grade school cousin, Nadia, in basic mathematics. Khan couldn't always teach her in person, so he began filming YouTube videos.

The format was a simple lecture on an electronic blackboard paired with friendly and straightforward instructions and easy-to-understand drawings.

With thousands of lectures to choose from, anyone can pick up skills such as high mathematics, finance, accounting and computer programming. Khan Academy has also partnered with other renowned universities and museums to teach even more higher education topics. Exercise your cerebellum for yourself here: KhanAcademy

3. Coursera

Coursera is another educational effort to offer free education online to the world. It features some of the most prestigious universities and brilliant minds on the planet. Coursera is most notable for its courses on computer programming skills and having featured lessons with Google executives.

Coursera is taught by professors from world-renowned universities sch as Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. Who knew Ivy League education could be a Wi-Fi connection away?

Courses last six to eight weeks and many include actual certificates of completion from the universities involved. They're taught in dozens of languages by schools from around the world.

4. SkillShare

SkillShare is another hip way to learn skills online, especially with topics like DIY Audio Mixing from an actual DJ master, Young Guru, who has worked with much of the top talent in the music industry including Beyonce and Jay-Z.

SkillShare is unique in that the videos are mainly focused on modern and practical skills, such as entrepreneurship courses like Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than 1K. This course helps students define a minimum viable product to start their own company affordably.

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