Links: Free Online University Courses
A collection of links to free educational material online. The amount of information available online is expanding so fast, you can at least explore a new direction without leaving your house.
University-Specific
- MIT OpenCourseware – Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
- Webcast.Berkeley – Free podcasts and webcasts of University of California Berkeley current and archived courses.
- Harvard@Home – Selected lectures and videos.
- OpenYale – Access to a selection of introductory courses.
- Indian Institutes of Technology – YouTube videos from courses in Engineering.
Collections
- AcademicEarth – More lectures from various universities.
- YouTube EDU – Includes a variety of content from universities including UCLA, Case Western, and Oklahoma State.
- iTunes U – Includes audio/video from universities from around the world, National Public Radio stations, and famous museums. Many of the more popular ones are language courses.
Open Culture.com is a blog about free educational and cultural materials on the web. Here are some highlights (some posts are older):
By Jonathan Ping | College & Education | 3/9/10, 1:18am
March 9th, 2010 at 1:25 am
Great post, I know UCLA also offers lectures online for free @ oid.ucla.edu
Youtube is probably the best single source for live lectures, there are some great ones from every major university.
March 9th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Khan Academy on Youtube have lectures on every conceivable subjects.
http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy
March 9th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Excellent post! Thank you for the useful information you put forward.
Another interesting link is http://www.ted.com. Great academic, cultural and technological talks and ideas from remarkable people.
March 9th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Some more institutions offering free online materials are here:
http://education-portal.com/ar.....nline.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2kg6dg
March 9th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Great stuff, thanks a lot. I was only aware of the MIT courses.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Great post!… I love your blog!
March 9th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
If you want to learn about the Austrian school of economics, there is a ton of information available for free at the Mises institute at mises.org. There are whole books as PDFs.
March 9th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
For MBA-level Corporate Finance, Valuation, & Investment classes NYU professor Aswath Damodaran’s website is by far the best resource I’ve seen. He posts everything from his classes – syllabi, assignments, class notes, recordings of lectures, etc…
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
March 9th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I didn’t know these sites existed. I found most of the courses pertaining to my BS degree online. I could have saved my parents so much money….
March 9th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
ecorner.stanford.edu
March 10th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Excellent post Jonathan. Let me add http://www.manager-tools.com/ to your list. They have 100s podcasts for management development. Thanks for sharing!
March 16th, 2010 at 6:55 am
Wharton Business School has their class content, video interviews, podcast on their Knowledge@Wharton website -http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
There is a Spanish / Portuguese version – http://www.wharton.universia.net/
Chinese – http://www.knowledgeatwharton.com.cn
Arabic – http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/