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I just learned about this free online learning site. The courses range over a broad selection of topics, and the instructors are professors at big-name universities that have partnered with the site. There are videos and readings, but also projects and graded homework and quizzes. I've signed up for "Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning" starting in January and it looks extremely promising, dealing with topics like taxation and college planning and estate planning. The course is offered by UC Irvine and the instructor is a CFP. I'm also considering a course from Georgia Tech (my daddy's alma mater!) on Computational Investing (how to start a hedge fund?!), or a course from the University of Edinburgh on Philosophy. There are a *ton* of medicine and public health related courses from Johns Hopkins, UCSF, Duke, and other big universities.
If like me and a SAHM friend I was talking with recently, you feel like staying home with the kids is rewarding except for the part where your brains ooze out of your ears for lack of use; or if you have a career but want to stretch your horizons or brush up on your skills, you might want to check these out.
And take the financial one with me, it'll be FUUNNNNN!!! 
(DH recently told me about a New Yorker article he read about how medicine could learn more from Cheesecake Factory...there's a course called an Introduction to Operational Management that makes the same analogy between restaurants and hospitals, intended to help business students understand management and efficiency and quality control, from a UPenn professor whose current work is mostly in healthcare. I'm kind of interested in that one too.)
If like me and a SAHM friend I was talking with recently, you feel like staying home with the kids is rewarding except for the part where your brains ooze out of your ears for lack of use; or if you have a career but want to stretch your horizons or brush up on your skills, you might want to check these out.
And take the financial one with me, it'll be FUUNNNNN!!! (DH recently told me about a New Yorker article he read about how medicine could learn more from Cheesecake Factory...there's a course called an Introduction to Operational Management that makes the same analogy between restaurants and hospitals, intended to help business students understand management and efficiency and quality control, from a UPenn professor whose current work is mostly in healthcare. I'm kind of interested in that one too.)
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