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Accessible from home Atomic Training
Offers how-to tutorials for popular software programs

Click On: Free College Courses and Lectures
A wealth of resources for learning almost any topic. The list includes audio podcasts, online video courses as well as sources for free course materials.

Click On: Online Tutorials
Learn new skills and techniques with these lessons.

Coursera
Learn from the best! Courses from faculty at Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Michigan, and Penn.

Facebook Guide for Beginners
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GCF LearnFree.org
Online computer, technology, and life skills training. Self-paced as well as instructor-led online classes. Free registration is required.

Illinois Virtual Campus
A guide to over 4,500 online courses offered by Illinois colleges and universities.

Learning Space
The Open University in the U.K. website with dozens of online courses categorized into disciplines.

Library 2.0
Staff-created introduction to Web 2.0 technologies for everyone.  Learn how to use blogs, Twitter, RSS and feed readers, social networking and Facebook, Flickr and photo sharing, YouTube and Hulu, social bookmarking, wikis, music, and Good Reads.

Accessible from home Mango Languages
Learn a language using Mango online. Choose from 22 different languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Russian. Foreign speakers can use the ESL lessons from a specific language background to help learn English. Just click on “Start Learning” on Mango’s home page.

Net–Tips: Using Help Feature for Microsoft® Products

OpenCourseWare Consortium
Courses from over 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations including MIT, Notre Dame, and the University of California. Free registration is required.

Accessible from home Universal Class
Offers self-directed online classes on over 500 topics.

YouTubeEdu
Find short lessons from top teachers around the world and full courses from the world’s leading universities.

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