Some news could be short.
Did you know about #MOOC? That aberration means Massive Open On-line Course. (You can read more about therm on Wiki) and one of places where you can get them is Open SAP .
This page is managed by SAP company. It is quite good start point for some of SAP educations and you can bound your SAP ID with your Open SAP account if you want.
Disadvantages I found so far: courses are here only for some period and there are not much of them. But who knows what future holds ...