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30 Best Websites to Upgrade Your Mind

The future of learning is online, where you can learn new things anytime, anywhere. We’ve collected the best websites to learn new things online.

Author Sean Kim
Category Self-education
30 Best Websites to Upgrade Your Mind
Photo credit: Joshua Mayo
Looking to learn new things this year? You can forget about overpriced institutions and traditional curriculums. The future of learning is online, where you can learn new things anytime, anywhere.

Whether your desire is to become the next big business leader, learn a new language, or hack the world of traveling, we’ve collected the best websites to learn new things online.

Enjoy!

Business

1. CreativeLIVE

Take free creative classes from the world’s top experts. Learn new things from business, photography, marketing, negotiation, and more.

2. Investopedia

Investopedia is the ultimate resource for understanding finance, trading stocks, market analysis, and free trading simulators.

3. Bigger Pockets

Bigger Pockets is the premiere social network for learning and understanding everything there is about real estate investing.

4. Mixergy

Leading show for entrepreneurs bringing on top business leaders to hear their story. Host Andrew Warner digs deep to give you the nitty gritty details of what it actually takes to build a thriving business.

5. General Assembly

Online and in-person classes to learn coding, marketing, business, and more.

6. Skillshare

Online classes and projects that unlock your creativity for $10/month.

Foreign Languages

7. Duolingo

Learn a language for free.

8. Memrise

Use flashcards to learn vocabulary.

9. Rype

Your personal trainer for languages. Get unlimited 1-on-1 private language lessons online from the top professional teachers around the world. First 14 days are free.

Academics

10. Khan Academy

Khan Academy hosts over 1,500+ videos lessons covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology, and finance.

11. iTunesU

Hundreds of universities — including Stanford, Yale and MIT — distribute lectures, slide shows, PDFs, films, and exhibit tours and audiobooks through iTunes U. The science section alone contains content on topics including agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, and geography.

12. EdX

Free online courses from the world’s best universities. Includes MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley.

Technology

13. Treehouse

Treehouse offers lessons to learn basic HTML, coding apps, building websites, and much more.

14. Udacity

Earn a Nanodegree recognized by industry leaders and gain access to top courses online.

15. Coursera

Take free online classes from 120+ top universities and educational organizations. Includes Stanford, Yale, and Princeton.

16. Lynda

Lynda is a LinkedIn company that offers courses to learn new things such as software, creative, and business skills. Start today and get 30 days free of 1000s of courses!

17. Codeacademy

Learn to code interactively for free. With a community over 25 million, Codecademy proves to be a powerful platform to learn multiple languages of code.

18. One Month

One month offers personalized coding lessons on various topics that are designed to be completed in 30 days.

Health & Fitness

19. Calm

Calmness on demand. Get guided meditation practice in less than 10 minutes.

20. Bodybuilding

Workout, nutrition, and fitness tips by health experts online.

21. Livestrong

Online magazine that shares great tips on how to be healthier and stronger.

Travel

22. Nomadicmatt

Learn how to travel the world for $50 USD a day using tips from a world nomad.

23. Matador Network

Online travel magazine that shares stories, tips, and deals on traveling smarter.

24. Lonely Planet

City guides, tips, and community for travellers around the world.

25. Wandering Trader

Advice on travel and making money online through trading.

General

26. TED

Find carefully curated educational videos from the world’s leaders.

27. Scribd

Netflix for books. Download as many books as you want online for $8.99/month.

28. Chesscademy

Learn how to play chess for free and challenge others to play for free.

29. Biography

Learn the history and lives of the world’s most influential leaders.

30. Blinkist

Books summarized by real humans to save you time.

Over To You

What are some of the best websites you’ve used to learn new things? We’d love to hear it below and please share this around to your friends. It could change their lives.

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