Take courses at Universities for FREE
Did you know that many universities offer online courses that you can register for and take for FREE in the comfort of your home?
In fact, MIT offers 1700 of “open courseware” courses. You can browse their online catalog of courses by department and click on the courses that interest you. Each course has a syllabus, a calendar of important dates, reading material, lecture notes, and assignments.
There are also some courses that are offered in video and audio format.
MIT is not the only place where you can get free education. The Post Gazette wrote a story about the MIT program and lists a selection of “open courseware” offerings at other universities:
- apple.com/education/itunesu iTunes U offers audio and video lectures from more than two dozen institutions at its iTunes store.
- cmu.edu/oli Carnegie Mellon University offers about 10 courses designed specifically to provide not only materials but also computerized instruction.
- ocw.tufts.edu Tufts University offers more than 30 courses in areas as different as agriculture and dentistry.
- ocw.nd.edu Materials from the University of Notre Dame are generally in the humanities and social sciences, from women in Islamic society to ancient wisdom and modern love.
- ocw.jhsph.edu Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health provides materials from some of its most popular courses, ranging from global health to nutrition.
- youtube.com/ucberkeley In addition to materials available on iTunes U, the University of California at Berkeley has posted videos of lectures of eight courses and plans to add others to YouTube.
- uocwa.org/ Utah Open Courseware Alliance lists free offerings from seven universities: College of Eastern Utah, Dixie State College, University of Utah, Utah State University, Utah Valley State College, Webster State College and Western Governors University.
- www.ocwconsortium.org The Open Courseware Consortium has links to course materials at its participating universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
- www.open.ac.uk/openlearn The Open University of the United Kingdom offers modules of some its courses free through OpenLearn. By April, 5,400 hours of materials are expected to be available.
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