June 2009

5 Free Web Tools for Learning a Language Collaboratively

June 30, 2009

This is a guest post by Caitlin Smith Learning a language on your own can be done, but it’s much more fun and potentially easier to learn through communicating with others. The Web provides a great forum for this, with tools of all kinds that let language learners talk to one another and learn from [...]

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What’s Useful for Learning

June 23, 2009

I sent out a tweet on this one, but Clark Aldrich’s brief post on Four Intellectual Traps for Understanding Learning merits a blog post as well, IMHO. In it, Clark calls out the following as not (wholly) useful for learning: 1. School 2. Books, magazines, and movies 3. Professional (or other highly structured) sports 4. [...]

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25 Free Online Resources and Web Apps for Lifelong Learners

June 18, 2009

The Internet has made the lifelong pursuit of knowledge easier for nearly everyone in the world. There are tons of websites dedicated to providing free courses, reference books, education apps, and other learning materials. Here are 25 stand-out sites that would be useful to almost any lifelong learner.

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A Lifelong Learning Guide Post

June 18, 2009

If you are new to Mission to Learn, or have simply decided to spend a bit more time exploring what is here, the posts listed on this page represent good places to start. It’s also good to know that the whole focus here is on lifelong learning. I mean that not so much in the [...]

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Discover Your Inner Philosopher

June 8, 2009

If you are on a Mission to Learn, chances are pretty good that you are a philosopher in the truest sense – someone who loves knowledge. But maybe you haven’t thought about yourself that way or spent much time studying Philosophy with a capital “P.” If not, I recommend checking out The Philosophy Podcast from LearnOutLoud.com, and [...]

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