Lifelong Learning / Adult Education (NUST): Web Resources

TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

TED-Ed — TED's youth and education initiative — aims to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.

Whether you’re trying to level up your career, build your side project, or simply play around with programming, you’ve found the right place to start.

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. (Paid & free courses available)

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. (Paid & free courses available)

FutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life.
On almost every course you will have the choice to upgrade or learn for free.

Babbel focuses more on helping English language learners acquire the basic conversational skills. Babbel is a great language app that has a strong focus on vocabulary. Babbel also lets users learn to understand a language by completing and repeating phrases. The app has four different approaches - Sound Recognition, Picture Recognition, Spelling and Fill in the blanks. Babbel definitely focuses on the quality of your learning rather than the quantity.

Busuu helps you learn English language on the go and the lesson's quality are guaranteed as it is based on CEFR language framework. Lessons range from beginner to advanced through comprehensive vocabulary, lesson dialogue, writing practice and tests. Busuu is actually a great English app if you want to improve your spoken English.

With Busuu, you can talk with native English speakers to practice your English speaking and it’s a great way to practice your speaking.

Memrise uses some creative and easy way to remember words for learning English. The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English words in a effective way. Memrise also offers an offline mode to continue learning without internet connection.

Memrise will start using its spaced repetition system to help you start learning tons of new English vocabulary words easily. Memrise also have courses to learn the English Grammar in an innovative way.

Drill down from a Major Topic to Sub-Topic or Specialty. Limit formats as wanted to Video/Audio Lectures Student Work, Lecture Notes, Assessments, Online Textbook, Interactive Simulations.

Open Culture offers over 400 courses in the liberal arts and sciences from leading universities. These audio and video courses can downloaded to your computer or MP3 player or viewed on iTunes or Youtube.

Explore series of free or low-cost courses. In addition, you can also browse Harvard University's Digital Learning Portal, which features online learning content from across the University, both free and fee-based options.

OLI is a leader in higher education's innovation of online learning.
We're a growing research-and-production project exploring effective approaches since the early 2000s.

OLI is a leader in higher education's innovation of online learning.
We're a growing research-and-production project exploring effective approaches since the early 2000s.

Udemy.com is the world's biggest online learning platform. It is aimed at professional adults and students. Udemy have more than 30 million students who have access to over 30 million minutes of content on Udemy. More than 50,000 instructors are teaching 130,000 courses in over 60 languages.