You can do all of this and more using great educational sites on the Web. Use this guide to explore some of the best places to educate yourself.
Coursera - Coursera is a a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
DOAB:Directory of Open Access Books - DOAB provides open access to many academic publications including textbooks.
DOAJ - The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Education-Portal.com - Education-Portal has the dream of making education accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Google Art Project - Google Art Project features more than 32,000 artworks from 46 museums. Explore collections from around the world photographed in extremely high resolution. You can also create and share your own folder of artworks.
Google World Wonders Project - Google is using its Street View technology to make world heritage sites available to users across the globe. Google has photographed some of the most significant places in the world so that anyone, anywhere can explore them.
Khan Academy - Learn almost anything for free. The goal of Khan Academy is to change education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
MITOPENCOURSEWARE - MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
MOOCs: Top Ten Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities - Take free courses from schools like Stanford, MIT, UCLA and Berkely.
Open Culture - This is a wonderful collection of lectures, films, language lessons, ebooks and other educational media. It is available for free on the web.
TED - TED "believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. TED is building a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other."