Today came the day, symbolizing one of the strongest and best properties of man - his intellect. Day of Knowledge, he is September 1, he is the beginning of the school year. After all, who would we be without knowledge and science? Dangling somewhere at the bottom of the food pyramid.



In honor of this fateful day for each student and student, we decided to make a selection of various educational resources in the field of IT. Once we did something similar for those who want to learn web development and design . Still, it's never too late to learn, no matter how trite it may sound. And nowadays, it’s absolutely impossible to stop learning, and the risk is still high at the bottom of the pyramid, only social.

Russian-speaking resources

Universarium

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Very interesting distance learning project. Completely free platform on which courses on the most different disciplines from exact, humanitarian and social sciences are presented now. Please note that the project is supported by RIA Science and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The composition of the available courses periodically changes, and materials of completed courses are not available for download. The project is open to suggestions, so it is possible that someone from habravchan will become the initiator, or even the teacher on this resource.

Netology



Here you can learn a new profession from scratch, and take advanced training courses. In the latter case, for a small monthly fee, you will get access to training materials in a variety of disciplines, 52 courses are now available, and new ones are added monthly. The focus is mainly on e-commerce, management and internet marketing, although there are more technical disciplines. Education is paid, but there is a section with free materials, so-called open lessons. You can watch videos of already completed free lessons.

Cisco Networking Academy



Non-profit project for free education for people with disabilities from a well-known company. This is a very commendable initiative, which makes it possible to get an "IT specialty in the field of data transmission networks." This is a good opportunity for many people who find it difficult to find a job because of a disability.

Microsoft Virtual Academy



Here you can get free training on the company's products and on the following topics:

• Application Development;
• virtualization;
• desktop and device management;
• server infrastructure;
• cloud;
• C # / XAML;
• HTML5.

Only a few dozen courses are presented.

Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)



This university offers the possibility of obtaining higher education through distance learning. Information technologies are represented in the program by the programs “ Applied Informatics in Economics ” and “ Business Informatics ”. Training is paid.

Business School of Information Technology RFEI



Here you can get training and get a state diploma of higher education. You can choose one of four specializations:

• information technology management;
• system administration of information business systems;
• sales manager and sophisticated technical systems;
• information resources specialist.

In addition, you can get training in a variety of specialized courses, including programming courses.

INTUIT



There are many free courses on all sorts of products and disciplines related to information technology. Own sections are reserved for training courses from Intel and Microsoft. There is also the possibility of obtaining higher education in the specialties “Software Engineering” and “Network Technologies”. True, it will have to pay for it.

Computer Training Center "Specialist"



This project MGTU them. N. E. Bauman, who offers paid training in the form of webinars and viewing study online and offline materials. Training is conducted in many areas, including IT, choose for every taste.

Moscow Center for Distance Education



Here you can remotely get higher education, improve your qualifications, graduate from college and even get an MBA degree. Training courses are compiled and conducted by teachers of some metropolitan educational institutions. Training is paid.

Hexlet



Non-profit educational project dedicated to programming and related disciplines. Materials for training are presented in the form of video lectures, tests, exercises and homework.

Landwings



There are several dozens of paid and free video courses on a variety of disciplines, including IT.

English language resources

Coursera


One of the most famous resources, which presents educational materials on a huge number of disciplines and programs from leading universities in the world. And the training is free. Training is based on watching video lectures and passing quizzes. Real expanse for those who want to get high-quality and relevant knowledge.

Udacity



These are online courses created with the participation of Google, Nvidia, Microsoft and other organizations. They are dedicated to programming (including Android ), web development, and other areas. There is both a free and an extended paid version of the courses.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Free Materials



Giant selection of text and video materials for self-study. There is no interactive and certificates, but if you prefer self-training, then this is it.

Free Stanford University Courses



A large number of free lectures posted on various sites. If you are interested in the materials of this university, then here they are collected in one place, no need to look for them in different sites.

Harvard University Online Courses



Full (and paid) online courses and lectures from one of the most prestigious universities.

Video lectures at the University of Berkeley



A large number of free lectures and webcasts on various topics from the field of computer science.

Here are just a small sample of sites where you can remotely gain knowledge and skills in various IT disciplines. The range is huge, from small lectures to full-fledged higher education. Among the resources offered, everyone will surely find something that suits him in terms of length and depth of study, form of filing and cost. And although Solzhenitsyn believed that "the education of the mind does not add," but we still believe that, other things being equal, education gives advantages.

What educational resources did you use?