[shogunmike]

That depends primarily on your favoured learning style. MOOCs are certainly changing the available resources and lecturers are publishing freely available notes for particular courses on their home pages.

Unfortunately some textbooks can be expensive, but some are more reasonably priced. Unfortunately, the more "niche" the mathematical area becomes, the harder it becomes to find freely available sources.

I personally prefer a mix of video lectures and textbooks. Being able to watch video lectures, with the ability to pause and rewind, is a very useful feature that is not available in live lectures!