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Recently I saw a great TED talk about high quality free online courses offered by some of the most famous universities around the world (like MIT, Stanford) , "Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education", available at  http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html

The whole talk is really great, with some tips how to improve the effectiveness of online trainings. I did also some googling and found following websites that offer free learning courses (or index them) from various disciplines. Really worth checking and signing up:

https://www.coursera.org/ - site mentioned by Daphne Koller. 124 courses offered.

https://www.edx.org/ - MIT, Berkley, Harvard - some of the courses start in September and beginning of October

http://www.schneider-electric.com.au/sites/australia/en/company/data-center-free-online-training-courses.page - Data Center University offers a lot of computer-related courses

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - MIT OpeonCourseWare, a lot of courses prepared by MIT in the past covering various topics (not only technical related)

Plus two sites indexing courses that are available online for free:

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html

Enjoy (and learn) :)

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