Lifelong Learning

Learn what you want, when you want!

The Great Courses: Library Collection

The Great Courses – available on both Kanopy and Hoopla – can satisfy your curiosity about science, history, math, or philosophy and other subjects. You can also improve your skills in a hobby like photography or cooking.

Each course consists of 30 minute video lectures, and many have accompanying Guidebooks that cover the content and can be downloaded and saved or printed.

  • Food & Wine
  • Health, Fitness & Nutrition
  • Hobby & Leisure
  • History
  • Literature & Language
  • Mathematics
  • Music & Fine Art
  • Philosophy, Religion & Intellectual History
  • Science
  • Travel

GetSetUp: Free Online Courses for Older Adults

GetSetUp lets you learn both live and on-demand with other older adults! The GetSetUp portal offers virtual learning and social interaction that can help reduce the risk for social isolation.

Join online classes for:

  • Technology
  • Art & Creative Pursuits
  • Fitness Classes
  • Health & Wellness
  • Finance
  • Medicare
  • Travel
  • History
  • Languages

Classes are offered in English, Spanish, Hindi and Mandarin.


Gresham College (UK)

Gresham College provides free educational videos and lectures at the university level.

Register to watch talks live online (UK time), or explore their online collection which includes more than 3,500 videos, featuring over 1200 speakers dissecting hundreds of topics.


Open Culture

Open Culture provides 1,700 free online courses from top universities, as well as other free resources.

  • Online courses
  • Audiobooks & Ebooks
  • Movies
  • Podcasts
  • Language learning