Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are available worldwide and offer tons of topics, also about Linked Open Data (LOD). An easy way to enter the semantic web.
Two examples:
HPI
The Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam provides, for some years now, a course in Linked Data Engineering with a certificate. I did it some years ago and enjoyed it.
FUN (INRIA)
The French platform FUN offers a LOD course, too. (Thanks to Adrian at zazuko.com for the hint)
And books
Step by step Bob DuCharme introduces RDF, SPARQL, LOD …
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