Top 5 E-learning Websites

After the obligatory week or two of post-finals laziness, summer can be a great time to pick up new skills. Want to learn a new programming language? People gotten a little rusty since freshman year? Here are five sites that let you learn without leaving the couch.

1. Udemy :Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. Unlike academic MOOC programs driven by traditional collegiate coursework, Udemy provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses which can be offered to the public, either at no charge or for a tuition fee. Udemy provides tools which enable users to create a course, promote it and earn money from student tuition charges.
2. Courseworms : Courseworms.com   is a E-learning platform that rapidly growing recently. Have big potential and they aim to reach out the people of the world. Instructors started jumping into this platform after publication of successful story of PROFX forex instructor that earning money in the field of teacher rather than forex market.  The simple platform of courseworms enable instructors and students to use it easily.
3. Khan Academy: Founded by Salman Khan in 2006, this non-profit website now boasts over 4,000 education videos covering topics from finance to animation to art history. Each video is about ten minutes long and begins with a blank screen that the narrator (Khan himself in over 3,000 of the videos, according to Forbes) draws on in bright colors to illustrate concepts. Khan’s style is surprisingly easy to follow. “I teach the way I wish I was taught,” Khan says.
4. Skillshare: Skillshare’s tagline is simple: “Learn Differently.” This site proposes a new kind of model for online education—anyone can sign up to take a class, and anyone can sign up to teach one. Instructors determine a price for their class (usually fairly low, around $15-$30) and decide whether they want to teach in person or apply to teach an online global class. The site has an incredibly wide range of offerings. A couple of courses that caught my eye: Grace Bello’s “How to Write a Killer Magazine Pitch” (99 students enrolled so far) and Anne Ditmeyer’s “Mapmaking: Learn to Communicate Places Beautifully”(870 students).
5. Lynda.com: For $25 a month, users can get unlimited access to lynda.com’s library of over 1,800 video courses covering a variety of subjects. The site’s software tutorials are particularly useful when trying to brush up on a program you haven’t used in a while or learn the particulars of a newly released version of an old favorite. According to co-founder Lynda Weinman the site can help users keep their skills up to date: “It can be the difference in getting a new job or getting an advancement in your job or achieving the things that you want to achieve today,” she says in an introductory video.