girl-havoced:

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

• Alison 
  
• Coursera
• FutureLearn
• open2study
• Khan Academy
• edX
• P2P U
• Academic Earth
• iversity
• Stanford Online
• MIT Open Courseware
• Open Yale Courses
• BBC Learning
• OpenLearn
• Carnegie Mellon University OLI
• University of Reddit
• Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

• TED
• FORA
• Big Think 
• 99u
• BBC Future
• Seriously Amazing
• How Stuff Works
• Discovery News
• National Geographic
• Science News
• Popular Science
• IFLScience
• YouTube Edu
• NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

• wikiHow
• Wonder How To
• instructables
• eHow
• Howcast
• MAKE
• Do it yourself
  

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

• OpenStax CNX
• Open Textbooks
• Bookboon
• Textbook Revolution
• E-books Directory
• FullBooks
• Books Should Be Free
• Classic Reader
• Read Print
• Project Gutenberg
• AudioBooks For Free
• LibriVox
• Poem Hunter
• Bartleby
• MIT Classics
• Many Books
• Open Textbooks BCcampus
• Open Textbook Library
• WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Scitable
• PLOS
• Wiley Open Access
• Springer Open
• Oxford Open
• Elsevier Open Access
• ArXiv
• Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

• Duolingo
• BBC Languages
• Learn A Language
• 101languages
• Memrise
• Livemocha
• Foreign Services Institute
• My Languages
• Surface Languages
• Lingualia
• OmniGlot
• OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

• Codecademy
• Programmr
• GA Dash
• CodeHS
• w3schools
• Code Avengers
• Codelearn
• The Code Player
• Code School
• Code.org
• Programming Motherf*?$%#
• Bento
• Bucky’s room
• WiBit
• Learn Code the Hard Way
• Mozilla Developer Network
• Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

• Learning Yoga
• Learn Meditation
• Yome
• Free Meditation
• Online Meditation
• Do Yoga With Me
• Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

• Exposure Guide
• The Bastards Book of Photography
• Cambridge in Color
• Best Photo Lessons
• Photography Course
• Production Now
• nyvs
• Learn About Film
• Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

• Enliighten
• Ctrl+Paint
• ArtGraphica
• Google Cultural Institute
• Drawspace
• DragoArt
• WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

• Music Theory
• Teoria
• Music Theory Videos
• Furmanczyk Academy of Music
• Dave Conservatoire
• Petrucci Music Library
• Justin Guitar
• Guitar Lessons
• Piano Lessons
• Zebra Keys
• Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

• Investopedia
• The Chess Website
• Chesscademy
• Chess.com
• Spreeder
• ReadSpeeder
• First Aid for Free
• First Aid Web
• NHS Choices
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.