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Learning Anywhere & Anytime

As a student we are sometimes in a position that we are not able to clearly grasp
topic , or missed out some of the courses due to unavoidable circumstances, or learning an entirely new topic, or professor not being able to teach properly or whatever the reason may be.
Internet is full of resources for those who need it.A quick search on the topic will return tons of information.
Here is list of sites that present university level courses in video and interactive format. There is no best list as new ones come up regularly, or this list might be old when you read it.
Khan Academy—The website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,000 video lectures stored on YouTube on various subjects ranging from maths ,science,arts, economics etc..
Code Academy---It is one of the best place to start to learning to code. It very interactive place, and you can track your progress easily.
Udacity---It is newcomer in this field with courses being bit more complex than the others. But since it is a beginner we should see  more of them.Courses here are very unique and interesting like Building your own search engine.
Wikiversity---From the creators of Wikipedia, Wikiversity describes itself as being a community seeking to create and use learning materials and activities. Wikibooks is also incredibly powerful already containing everything from a detailed guide to learning French to Organic Chemistry and Nanotechnology.
MIT OpenCourseWare---It a initiative of MIT of bringing their course material for free online. There are more than 2080 courses available online.
NPTEL---National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
is a Indian government initiative of bringing curriculum based video and web courses.
There a more than 300 videos available on various engineering fields.
There are lot of others out there which we might mot have covered here. Nevertheless above listed sites should help you a lot in your studies.
There are also many university putting up their courses online for free which you might want to try.

  • Berkeley Webcast
  • Stanford Engineering Everywhere
  • Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
  • Open.Michigan
  • Open Yale Courses And for others just Google.
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