When people hear the words online learning they often think of correspondance courses and online colleges. While this is one aspect of learning things online it’s not the only thing or way to learn online.
For instance there are thousands of people daily learning new things with YouTube and free video content that is being published by folks all over the world.
So what other types of things can you learn online aside from academic or career enhancing topics?
Music
Music, specifically guitar, is a huge topic online. YouTube itself is populated with a ton of content from guitar teachers and amateur musicians teaching you how to play different things on their guitar. Take it one step further and you can take some awesome guitar lessons online in a similar environment to how you’d learn from a private teacher offline. Take a site like Jamplay for instance. This service has over 40 different guitar teachers producing lesson content for them. This is amazing when you consider you pay less then $20 bucks a month to be a member at Jamplay and get access to all of this amazing content.
Hobbies
Want to learn to knit or sew? No problem, like the music example above you can learn to knit and sew using both free information found on sites like YouTube. This is usually a good place to get started since you may be looking for a basic tutorial on something particular you want to learn. You can also consider learning from a paid service, ebook or DVD you could purchase online. These products will be more all encompassing to teach you more of what you may want to know about the topics.