Studying on your own with opencourseware (free online content from universities) is an easy way to brush up on a subject and explore your interests before enrolling in a for-credit course. Watching video lectures is an especially effective way for audio-visual learners to study a topic of interest. A new website, FreeVideoLectures.com, offers links to dozens of free online video lectures from universities around the nation. Here's how they describe their site:

"This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, Audio lectures, animations and Text materials on new technologies in the fields of Electronics, Communications, Computer Science, Networking and mechanical engineering. The site also provides Video and Audio lectures on various Sciences: Biology, Psychology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry etc..."

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