Attend Harvard, MIT, or Yale for Free
The OpenCourseWare movement began, in its modern incarnation, in 1999 when the University of Tübingen decided to publish its lectures online for all; MIT launched its OpenCourseWare and Carnegie Mellon its Open Learning Initiative in 2002 to continue the movement, and many followed.
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This means you can effectively attend some of the world's most renowned colleges for free. We are not responsible for the linked organizations, nor they for us.
Harvard
https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free
M.I.T.
https://ocw.mit.edu/
Stanford
https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses
Yale
https://oyc.yale.edu/
Carnegie Mellon
https://oli.cmu.edu/
...these are not the only providers, and if you are interested in a college, you should add "opencourseware" next to a search.
Open College Courses are not the only resource for independent learning, either; here are some additional resources, mostly in the libraries and educational texts subheading.
LibreTexts
https://libretexts.org/
OER Commons
https://oercommons.org/
Galileo
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/all-textbooks/
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
OpenStax
https://openstax.org/
National Academies Press
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/
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