Your education doesnt have to stop once you leave school.

Orientation: What Is Lifehacker U?

Grab your pen and paper and see to it your battery is chargedclass is in session!

This course can give it to you.

Best of all, the whole course is a game, and its fun.

Code School - Discover Drive- Professor Gregg Pollack -By Drive, we mean Google Drive here!

This is actually a very important principle in finance, especially personal finance, and one thats often overlooked.

Thats right, a potato.

But whats so special about them?

How did they get there, and why are they so important?

Sometimes they dosometimes they have no idea what theyre linking beyond a study title.

Think about ittheyre unlike any other number, and truly unique, and not common at all.

How did this method of analyzing the way we think and rationalize come to pass?

Who were some of the pioneers of this method of rationalization, and how did they see the world?

What can we learn from them?

The course will also hinge heavily on lived experiences and discussions.

Stanford University - Surveillance Law- Professor Jonathan Mayer- This popular course is back for another term!

The Open University - Smart Cities- Professors Lorraine Hudson and Gerd Kortuem- Even our cities are getting smart.

What does the future hold for our cities that are always watching and sensing everything going on in them?

Wholl use that information, for what?

Youll explore dog psychologywhich no joke, is actively being researched, with great results.

Long gone are tons of boring displays and purely self-guided exercises and exploration, although exploration is still encouraged.

Whether you play an instrument or youre a casual listener, theres something for you here.

Topics range from science and technology to social science and humanities, and theyre all free.

Youll learn everything from how to master Microsoft Excel to how to learn another language here.

Sliderulemaintains a massive course database thats easy to browse and search from many of the other institutions listed here.

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The Saylor Foundation can help you with that.

Education-Portal.com has a listof universities offering free and for-credit online classes to students and the public at large.

The University of Redditis a crowd-built set of classes and seminars by Reddit users who have expertise to share.

Topics range from computer science and programming to paleontology, narrative poetry, and Latin.

), and do examinations and quizzes on your own time.

Send them in to us at[email protected]so we can include them in the next semester!

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