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Do you want to receive a monthly digest of free and low-cost online courses, tutorials, videos, podcasts, games, and blogs?

YES! YES! YES! Let me repeat: YES!

The Free Learning Monitor newsletter compiled/synthesized/authored by Jeff Cobb does just that by providing regular monthly updates about free and low cost education opportunities available on the Web, and so much more.


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In addition, Jeff Cobb runs:

• The Mission to Learn Blog - Postings 2-3 times per week on new learning resources, news, and insights about learning. Subscribe to the blog by RSS
  
  
• Radio Free Learning - An occasional (aiming for one to two times per month) podcast in which he interviews thinkers and doers in the world of lifelong learning. Subscribe to the Radio Free Learning Podcast via RSS or with iTunes.
  
  
• Mission to Learn on Twitter - a continuous stream of lifelong learning resources and updates on Twitter. Follow Mission to Learn on Twitter

Finally, you certainly dont want to miss his excellent easy-to-read/learn/digest Learning 2.0 eBook. WOW!

No need to reflect whether to subscribe or not, just do it (recommendation based on experiencing these newsletters since May 2008)! Seriously, one extra e-mail a month with tons of excellent free learning resources cant do any harm! Though, if you are stubborn and dont want to subscribe, at least enjoy reading the newsletters from the archives section on his Mission to Learn website.

Amazingly, based on interpreting Jeff Cobbs reflections (here and there!), the Free Learning Monitor has yet to really hit off around the world. Well, with a bit of screaming out loud blog-to-blog, blog-to-twitter, twitter-to-twitter, and twitter-to-blog SWOOSH marketing that might change dramatically going into the newsletters second year of existence.

Finally, Jeff Cobb I would recommend that you also innovate further and synthesize all the free learning resources shared on the newsletters into resource indexes (webpages) such as the ones you find on Jane Harts amazing site (though a lot of commercial stuff, too. Not my cup of tea!). People love these 100+ resource lists. Not sure if they really explore the resources on them, but they surely bookmark and spread the news about them (which again increases traffic from Google).

Jeff Cobbs contribution to discovering and sharing (or referring/recommending) learning resources is simply breath-taking. Lets hope that more people around the world discover and enjoy his tremendous contributions. Besides hoping, lets promote his work, too! Twitter me this, and twitter me that, who is the best free learning monitor around?

I am still waiting for the one page 1000+ online resources mega index (with really juicy learning stuff). Perhaps you could be the first one :)