If you are studying topic X, generally speaking, it is easy to find an online course that will take you through the basics, and maybe even a little further. I, personally, wont step through an entire online course, I will skim until I find something interesting. However it is nice to occasionally work through an entire course, either for reference purposes, or just to broaden my thinking. Browsing through my rss feeds on Google Reader today there was a link to lecturefox: Basically a list of free online course materials, from various university courses. Some courses come with a webcast (i.e. video) of the lecture, others just the audio stream, and some universities appear to be offering a rss feed for their courses.

Now, truth be told, most of these courses appear to be math, physics or computer science based. However, there are a few topics, from other fields, which I think might be interesting. For example: “Psychology of Personality” is one topic I might try and at least look through. It’s good to have a wider knowledge base, and also I like to examine how people (generally society) think, and some psychology might not go astray in that regard.

Anyway, I thought it might be a nice list to share.