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Reply to comment by NoThroWaAccount in TIL that Gresham College, an institution of higher learning in London, does not enroll students or award degrees, and instead hosts over 140 free public lectures every year. Since 2001, all lectures have been made available online. by Kurma-the-Turtle

>i wanna learn stuff, but i am bad at assessing quality of information.

Lots of great universities have been trying to make their education accessible for free. Universities get paid for the credit courses - for gatekeeping quality and the prestige of the degree. So they don't mind as much letting people take the class for free when there's no credit attached.

Youtube has tons of recorded university classes available. For instance, here is a truck load of classes from MIT on their channel. You won't enjoy the benefit of a classroom with peers and access to the teacher to ask questions, but you can receive the same lectures the students get in the classroom.

Much easier than finding courses on Youtube, Coursera has tons of classes that have been contributed by universities, even top ones like Stanford and Yale. You can take most classes for free, and they ask for money if you want to receive an optional certificate at the end.

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