Project Vote Smart Allows you to research political canidates. Opensecrets.org See who is giving money to which canidates. This site has a variety of fee based courses. Everything from human resources, management and computer based classes. This is a very busy site.
Classes are diverse from accounting and languages to computer and graphics.
Some information is free. This is the Special Libraries Association online course page. It offers library related online courses. The next meeting is November 15. If you can't make it to the meeting.