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Khan Academy's #youcanlearnanything

Khan has been providing high-quality videos explaining...indeed...everything for a while now. Among everything are Probability and Statistics. Recently, they reorganized their content and added assessment tools as part of their #youcanlearnanything campaign in order to create self-paced lessons that are personalized to the user and include plenty of videos (of course) and personalized quizzes and feedback. 1) It requires the creation of a free account and selection of a learning topic (the screen shots below are from the Statistics and Probability course). 2) When you start a topic, you take pre-test to assess your current level. This assessment covers simple chart reading, division, and multiplication required for more advanced topics. If you struggle with this, Khan provides you with more material to improve your understanding of these topics. 3) After you complete the assessment, you receive your lesson plan. It includes the topic you select plus an additional introductory ...

Khan Academy's Central Limit Theorem

Khan Academy has plenty of fair use videos for "learning anything". They have a number of statistics/probability examples in their library. Including the Central Limit Theorem video below (I highlight this one as CLT usually leads to a lot of head scratching in my class).