Is there something you want to learn? The internet has what you need.

If you have the time and the incentive, there are resources online that will help  you learn just about anything you can imagine.

Online courses:

Coursera – Coursera.org – build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies.

Udacity – udacity.com – discover the fastest, most effective way to gain job-ready expertise for the careers of the future. Great place to learn tech skills.

edX – edx.org – free online courses by Harvard, MIT and 160 other member universities.

Learn a language:

Duolingo – duolingo.com – probably the most popular way to learn a language currently.

Memrise – memrise.com – learn a new language fast by watching thousands of clips of real locals.

Rosetta Stone – rosettastone.com – the original language learning site, and still very popular

Verbling – verbling.com – learn a new language with an online tutor – over 10,000 online teachers give private lessons based on your interests and objectives.

Learn how to code:

Code Academy – codeacademy.com – join millions of others who are learning to code, and you can get started for free.

Learn Code the Hard Way – learncodethehardway.org – advertised as the most effective system for learning the basics of computer programming, designed for complete beginners.

HTML Dog – htmldog.com – learn the code that’s used in making websites.

Learn music:

Justin Guitar – justinguitar.com – over 1800 effective and fun lessons and song tutorials.

Music theory – musictheory.net – free online content as well as premium apps.

How to Play Piano – howtoplaypiano.ca – Andrew Furmanczyk takes stuff that’s complicated, and makes it easy and clear to understand.

Learn to cook:

Cooking for Engineers – cookingforengineers.com – if you have an analytical mind, and you like to cook, this is your site.

How 2 Heroes – how2heroes.com – how-to videos for people who have a passion for food.

Reluctant Gourmet – reluctantgourmet.com – a work-at-home dad started this cooking website 20 years ago to teach himself how to cook, and now he uses the site to share everything he has learned.

Learn math:

Wolfram|Alpha – wolframalpha.com – compute expert-level answers using breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology

Project Euler – projecteuler.net – a series of challenging math and computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.

A few more – 

If there’s a particular skill you want to learn, I recommend SkillShare (skillshare.com). Just go to the site and browser, or type in the search what you want to learn.

For general life hack ideas, LifeHacker (lifehacker.com) has been around forever and is full of great stuff.

If you love to learn by watching documentaries, check out Top Documentary Films (topdocumentaryfilms.com) or Documentary Heaven (documentaryheaven.com).

That should keep you busy for a while! Do you have other online learning resources that we should know about? Put them in the comments below!