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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Q: Do you have any information about free courses available online?

A: Check the following resources:
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge. 

Coursera
Education for Everyone.
We offer courses from the top universities, for free.
Learn from world-class professors, watch high quality lectures, achieve mastery via interactive exercises, and collaborate with a global community of students.

Udacity
- Welcome to Udacity! We currently offer the following courses, with many more to come. All our courses are free, and you are welcome to sign up at any time. CS101 and CS373 are now open classes, you can enroll and follow along at your own pace. The remainder of our classes are being offered for the first time, new units will be posted once every week starting April 16th for seven weeks, and we suggest you follow along if you can although it is not required. We currently offer exams for all classes every eight weeks. 

Open Culture
450 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

7 comments:

  1. there is one more good source for free video lectures: http://freevideolectures.com/#

    Here is a particular example of mechanical course: http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2366/Heat-and-Mass-Transfer/4#

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  2. ALISON is a free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills, offering digital courses, certificates, or diplomas for free to Nepali citizens. It has the support of the Nepal government.
    http://alison.com/AllCourses

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  3. One more project from Nepal: E-Pustakayla can be installed at a school or community center without Internet access, opening a freely accessible source of information and education to all.
    http://pustakalaya.org/index.php?lang=en

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  4. Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community.
    http://open.umich.edu/

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  5. MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
    http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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  6. About edX

    One more resource: EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free. Through this partnership, the institutions aim to extend their collective reach to build a global community of online learners and to improve education for everyone.
    http://www.edxonline.org/

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  7. FYI
    "Creating and teaching a MOOC is in no way identical to the work of creating and teaching a traditional online course. These online courses depend on the personal relationship between instructor and student that online learning facilitates. This relationship does not scale past a certain number (50 with a well designed courses and robust course inputs), certainly not to the level of a MOOC."

    Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/david-brooks-confuses-moocs-online-learning#ixzz1uy333Hgs
    Inside Higher Ed

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