Online Learning Resources for Self Improvement

Whether you have a college degree or not, if you want to succeed in business life, you need to constantly improve yourself. Personal growth is the main key to become better in business and life.

If you work for a large business, you might be getting free trainings, seminars, tools and resources, that is great. If you are a small business owner, you might be trying your best to improve yourself by reading books related to your field, following industry blogs, and even entering executive education programs. These are all good.

In addition to all of these, what if you had the chance to attend a “Introduction to Statistics” class at one of the top universities in the world such as MIT or Stanford, would you take it? How about the accounting class that you’ve never taken seriously at school, but now, you know how important it is to know the fundamentals of accounting. Would you like to attend an accounting class and learn the basics from one of the top accounting professors in the world?

There is absolutely no excuse not to improve yourself with all the opportunities internet brings us.

Here are my top 5 favorite online learning resources:

• Academic Earth: One of my favorites. Academic Earth brings us absolutely free video courses from some of the top universities in the nation. Academic Earth currently offers course videos from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA and Yale.
• Open Course Ware by MIT: Maybe the tuition was too expensive or you simply weren’t accepted. You don’t have to worry that you couldn’t get an MIT degree anymore. MIT opens up its classes by Open Course Ware. Go catch a class now and get the great education you’ve always wanted.
• Yauba: Yauba is actually a search engine, but it does a great job bringing you the great learning resources.
• Itunes University: Apple’s Itunes University is currently offering over 200.000 education videos and audio and growing.
• TED: TED is my all time favorite. Nothing to add to TED, simply; “Ideas worth spreading”

Do you use any other great online learning resources other than the ones in this list? I’ll be happy to add your favorites to this list if you share them in the comments.