Jul 2009
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by micharch
What follows is but a partial list, the General Collections, of the free college courses that are available. Pick an area that you are interested in~ and take time this summer to "smarten up."
Now you can mention to friends about the courses that you took as an undergrad at Stanford, Berkley, or Yale and be pretty close to accurate!
General Collections
- Stanford on iTunes U – Download courses and play them on iTunes or your iPod
- UC Berkeley Webcast - Current and archived courses from one of the nation’s best public schools
- Johns Hopkins – Provides access to the school’s most popular courses
- MIT OCW – Open CourseWare from one of the nation’s eminent technology schools
- NYU – A link to some of New York University’s math programs
- Open University – A UK site which provides free access to course materials from Open University
- Free Online Courses – Open Culture’s collection of courses from great universities
- Tufts University – Open Courseware from Tufts University
- Yale University – Free Yale college courses online
- Berklee School of Music – A great resource for musicians or aspiring musicians with videos for instruction
- Notre Dame – Another Open Courseware program from a respected institution
- Gresham College – Provides free public lectures in London, but podcasts and videos are available on the site as well
- Utah State University – More open courseware – this time from Utah State
- Utah Valley State College – Free online courses and open educational resources
- Carnegie Mellon – Open Learning Initiative enacts the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning
- University of Washington – A handful of courses selected by UoW Educational Outreach
- Delft University of Technology – Free courses in engineering
- Kutztown University of Pennsylvania – Accounting open courseware – registration required but courses are free
- University of Alaska – Free Principles of Accounting course online
- UC Irvine – A course on Fundamentals of Personal Finance
- U.S. Small Business Administration – A vast resource of learning tools and courses from the U.S. government
- University of Nottingham – A member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, u-Now offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/free-online-college-courses/
