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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

* Free MIT Courses Online

If you are looking for a wide range of free courses offered online, MIT is your best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number of different languages. Students all over the world use OpenCourseWare and 96 percent of visitors to this site say they would recommend it to someone else.

In 2001, the MIT faculty made the bold decision to treat their teaching materials as a resource for the public good rather than a commodity to be sold online. When others were building online programs for the few who could pay, MIT built a digital resource to benefit the world. Imagine if they had never made that choice:

* 55 million individuals worldwide would never have had access to the educational opportunities OCW provides. Abhisri, a thirteen year-old student from India, would never have gained a better grasp of physics from OCW videos. US public school teacher, Christine, would not be able to maintain her teaching credentials without taking time off from her job. Eric, a self learner from Nepal, would not be able to satisfy his desire to learn math and computational biology because educational resources are scarce in his home country.

* Thousands of universities around the world would never have had the resources they need to improve the quality of education they provide. Hemalatha, a professor at the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli in India, would not have easily covered more materials during class time or have quickly enhanced the content of her lectures. The architecture faculty at the University of Depok in Indonesia would not have had the MIT resources to make their teaching more interactive with their students. More than 200 universities, like the Polytechnic of Namibia, would not have received free local copies of the entire OCW website to overcome bandwidth restrictions.

* Hundreds of schools would never have been inspired to produce their own OCWs, providing access to thousands of free courses. More than 250 universities worldwide have joined MIT in openly sharing materials with more than 8,000 courses, creating a body of knowledge that spans cultures and languages--a trove of our collective intellectual heritage.

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Open University (open.ac.uk)

* Free Open University Courses Online

The Open University is the UK's largest academic institution. The school's OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

* Free Carnegie Mellon Courses Online

Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.

4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)

* Free Tufts University Courses Online

Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are sorted by school (i.e. School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, etc.) and include assignments, lecture notes and other supplementary materials.

5. Stanford (stanford.edu)

* Stanford Courses on iTunes U

Stanford University, one of the world's leading academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it here for free.

6. University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

* Free UC Berkley Courses Online

UC Berkley, one of the best public universities in the nation, has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of certain courses since 2001. Hundreds of UC Berkley courses, both current and archived, are now available as podcasts and webcasts. Courses cover a range of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.

7. Utah State University (usu.edu)

* Free Utah State University Courses Online

Utah State University also provides access to free online courses. Study options include everything from anthropology to physics and theatre arts. These comprehensive text-based courses can be downloaded as zip files or viewed directly on the site.

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)

* Free Kutztown University Courses Online

Kutztown University's Small Business Development Center offers the largest collection of free business courses available on the web. Course topics include accounting, finance, government, business law, marketing and sales. Comprehensive text, interactive case studies, slides, graphics and streaming audio help to demonstrate the concepts presented in each course.

9. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)

* Free USQ Courses Online

The University of Southern Queensland in Australia provides free online access to a number of different courses through yet another OpenCourseWare initiative. Courses from each of the five faculties are available, covering a broad range of topics, including communication, science, career planning, technology, teaching and multimedia creation.

10. University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

* Free UC Irvine Courses Online

UC Irvine, one of the nation's top public universities, recently joined the OCW Consortium and began providing free university level courses online. Right now, there are only a handful of options to choose from, but this list is growing. Current courses cover topics like financial planning, human resources, capital markets and e-marketing. Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
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