Free Education from Ivy League Schools
Not headed back to school this fall? You could be, but without the tuition and without leaving your house! The web has made it easier than ever to get a free education, and you'd join the ranks of great minds in history who were also self-taught, like Joseph Conrad, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen, Agatha Christie and Ernest Hemingway. So You, too, can be an autodidact; the breadth of free educational materials available online is absolutely astonishing.-
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers the entire course content..Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
How do I find what courses are available? How do I search the site?
A site overview is available for MIT OpenCourseWare. You can also browse courses by department or use the advanced search to locate a specific course or topic.
Grab some larnin' from the University of Washington's free online courses; Greek mythology, American Revolution, Heroic Fantasy are just some of the offerings. If you get tired of that, you can study economics at the University of Nebraska.
Teach yourself sign language from Michigan State University. Browse through the vast treasures at the Library of Congress. View free videos on all sorts of subjects from Annenberg Media, a major supplier to most distance learning universities, or read the core documents of American democracy.
Feel like a little light reading? You can study theology at Covenant Seminary; course offerings are delivered via a combo of free downloadable .pdf files and podcasts, and include subjects ranging from Church History to the Modern Reformation.
Learn mathematics with this extensive list of free online math courses from Whatcom Community College. Visit Carnegie Mellon University and take Biology, Causal Reasoning, Statistics, and more, all for free.
Penn State University offers a free Swedish language course, in addition to a free Hungarian language course. Or, you can take an Italian language and culture course from Brooklyn College. California State also offers a free Conversational Mandarin Chinese course, and you can learn Turkish via the University of Arizona.
The University of Washington School of Medicine offers free CPR classes online, complete with video and instructional guides. You can also take health courses from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; anything from adolescent health to population science.
Prepare for the US citizenship test from the Missouri Southern State University. Learn linear algebra from the University of Puget Sound. Learn about bioterrorism (really) and other hazards from the University of North Carolina.
Get free online mathematics textbooks, videos, and lecture notes from New York University. Take advantage of Tufts University's open courses on dentistry, medicine, nutrition, and more. Learn about cognitive science from Hampshire College.
Take eight different courses via the Sofia Project, a collaborative effort between select California community colleges. Brigham Young University offers independent study in subjects such as Family History, Family Life, and Religious Scripture Study. Get access to ten free seminary courses from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Learn about human resources in 52 (!) different free courses from ERI. Browse a huge variety of materials in the University of Michigan's courses and seminars on Internet laws.
Ivy League
Take advantage of Stanford University's free CS education library. Go to college by taking free classes at MIT. Go to Berkeley with your iPod.The University of Pennsylvania has an extensive online library; over 25,000 books are listed here.
Just debuted, you can take free courses from Yale (funded by HP) on such diverse subjects as the Old Testament or Physics. Watch or read free online lectures in archival format from Princeton. Get a free Introduction to Probability text from Dartmouth.
European site called Open University's OpenLearn supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Contains many online course and a different style content management system. I was unable to find anything interactive or any streaming media, though it does have forums for each course. Appears to function mostly as a large educational ebook library. Visit: OpenLearn
From the creators of wikipedia, Wikiversity describes itself as being a community seeking to create and use learning materials and activities. Wikibooks is also incredibly powerful already containing everything from a detailed guide to learning French to Organic Chemistry and Nanotechnology. Visit: Wikiversity
Visit: Wikibooks
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health offers health based lecture notes and assigments. You'll find the JHSPH OCW website uses the same familiar navigation structure as MIT OCW. The notes are formatted much more cleanly but I haven't seen exams, and their search bar seems to be broken. Visit: JHSPH OCW Course Listings
Visit: Johns Hopkins University Podcasts
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university ranked equal with Berkeley. Though registration is not required they have a registered user mode that allows you to keep track of your scores and progress. Currently 11 courses are offered. The courses are basically ebooks in a frame-based easy to use navigation system with an occasional powerful interactive Java Applet for practice and testing. Visit: Carnegie Mellon OLI
Ranked as the #1 public school in the United States, Berkeley offers podcasts and webcasts of amazing professors lecturing. Each course has an RSS feed so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and notes you can check the professors homepage, which is usually given in the first lecture or google his name. Even though the notes, homework and tests are not directly printed in the berkeley website, as they are in MIT and other courseware sites, it's not a problem to find them. Visit: Berkeley Webcasts
Visit: Berkeley RSS Feeds
Visit: UC Berkeley on Google Video
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- Berklee College of Music
- Vanderbilt University
- Gresham College
- Open University (United Kingdom)
- Utah Valley State College
- Utah State University
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Free Online Courses from Great Universities
Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeology
Architecture
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) - iTunes - Jan Wampler, MIT
Cultural Studies
- Foundations of American Cyberculture - iTunes - Feed - Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley
- Heritage and Cultural Informatics - MP3s, Ian Anderson, University of Glasgow
- Introduction to Nonviolence - iTunes - Feed - Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley
Economics
- American Economic History - iTunes - Feed - Stream - J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley.
- Financial Markets - Download Course - Robert Shiller, Yale
- Game Theory - Download Course - Ben Polak, Yale
- Macroeconomic Analysis - iTunes - Feed - Steven Wood, UC Berkeley
- Microeconomic Analysis - iTunes - Feed - Gordon Rausser, UC Berkeley
- Money and Banking - Feed - MP3s - Dean Balm, UCLA
- Reading Marx’s Capital - Google Video - David Harvey, City University of New York
Geography
- Economic Geography of the Industrial World - iTunes - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
- Geography of US Presidential Elections - iTunes - YouTube - Martin Lewis, Stanford
- Geography of World Cultures - iTunes - Martin Lewis, Stanford University
- Global Geopolitics - iTunes - Martin Lewis, Stanford University
- Globalization - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Robert Acker, UC Berkeley
- Natural Resources and Population - iTunes - Feed - Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
- World Regions, People and States - iTunes - Feed - Nathan Sayre, UC Berkeley
- African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle - YouTube - Clay Carson, Stanford
- American Economic History - iTunes - Feed - Stream - J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
- American Environmental and Cultural History - iTunes - Feed - Carolyn Merchant, UC Berkeley
- Colonial and Revolutionary America - iTunesU - Jack Rakove, Stanford
- European Civilization from Renaissance to Present - iTunes - Feed - Thomas Lacquer/Margret Anderson, UC Berkeley
- European Civilization from Renaissance to Present - Feed - Stream - Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
- France Since 1871 - Download Course - John Merriman, Yale
- Hannibal - iTunes - Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
- Historical Jesus - iTunes - Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of the International System - iTunes - James Sheehan, Stanford University
- Introduction to Greek History - Download Course - Donald Kagan, Yale
- Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big Science - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Cathryn Carson, UC Berkeley
- Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient Rome - Feed - MP3s - Paolo Monella, UCLA
- The Ancient Mediterranean World - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Download Course - David Blight, Yale
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
- The Roman Empire - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
- The Western Tradition (Video) - Videos - Course Outline - Eugen Weber, UCLA
- US History: Civil War to Present - iTunes - Feed- Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
Literature
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Man, God and Society in Western Literature - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Milton - Download Course - John Rogers, Yale
- Modern English - Download Course - Langdon Hammer, Yale
- Old English in Context - iTunes - Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Shakespeare - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- The American Novel Since 1945 - Download Course - Amy Hungerford, Yale
- The Literature of Crisis - iTunes - Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford University
- Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - iTunes - Susanna Braund, Stanford University
Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy - iTunes - Feed - Stream - David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
- Consciousness - MP3s here - Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
- Death - Download Course - Shelly Kagan, Yale
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes - Feed - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Heidegger - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Heidegger’s Being & Time - Feed - MP3s - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument, iTunes - Daniel Coffeen, UC Berkeley
- Kant’s Epistemology - iTunes - Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow.
- Man, God and Society in Western Literature - iTunes - Feed - Web Site, Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Proust & Philosophy - Feed - Johns Hopkins
- The Examined Life - iTunes - Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
Political Science, International Relations and Law
- American Politics: Campaign Strategy - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Dan Schnur, UC Berkeley
- Climate Change: Law and Policy - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Cymie Payne
- Environmental Law and Policy - iTunes - Holly Doremus, UC Berkeley
- Geography of US Presidential Elections - iTunes - YouTube - Martin Lewis, Stanford
- International Politics - Feed - Johns Hopkins
- Introduction to German Politics - iTunes - Feed - Andreas Busch, Oxford University
- Introduction to Political Philosophy - Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
- Introduction to Political Theory - Feed - UCLA
- Issues in Foreign Policy after 911 - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Harry Kriesler, UC Berkeley
- Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning (Video) - Video - Michael Sandel, Harvard
- Perspectives on China (Video) - Video - Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard
- Politics and Strategy - Feed - MP3s - Kathleen Bawn, UCLA
- Republicanism - Feed - Johns Hopkins
- Theories of Law and Society - iTunes - Feed - David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
- Undergrad Colloquium on Political Science - iTunes - Feed - Alan Ross, UC Berkeley
Religion
- Historical Jesus - iTunes - Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) - Download Course - Christine Hayes, Yale.
Sociology
- The Sociology of Race Relations - iTunes - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst
Urban Studies
- Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry (Video) - iTunes - Download Course - Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT
Sciences Aeronautics
- Aircraft Systems Engineering - iTunes - Download Course - Multiple professors, MIT
Astronomy
- Astrobiology and Space Exploration - iTunes - Lynn Rotschild, Stanford
- Astronomy 101 - iTunes - Web Site - Scott Miller, Mercedes Richards & Stephen Redman, Penn State
- Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics - Download Course - Charles Bailyn, Yale
- Introduction to General Astronomy - iTunes - Feed - Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
Biology
- Animal Behavior - iTunes - Feed - Roy Caldwell, UC Berkeley
- Animal Behavior - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
- Behavioral Endocrinology - Feed - Johns Hopkins
- Bioscience in the 21st Century - iTunes - Video Downloads - Team taught, Lehigh University
- Darwin’s Legacy - iTunes - YouTube - Team taught - Stanford
- Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering - Download Course - W. Mark Saltzman, Yale
- General Biology 1 - Feed - John Hopkins
- General Biology 1 - iTunes - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley
- General Biology 2 - iTunes - Mp3 Stream - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- General Human Anatomy - iTunes - Feed - Marian Diamond, UC Berkeley
- Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law - Feed - MP3s here, Robert B. Goldberg, UCLA
- Genetics - Feed - MP3s here - Jay Phelan, UCLA
- General Genetics - iTunes - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley.
- Genomics & Computational Biology - iTunes - MP3s - George Church, MIT
- Introductory Biology - iTunes - MP3s/Videos - Multiple professors, MIT
- Introduction to Human Nutrition - iTunes - Feed - Nancy Amy, UC Berkeley
- Life Sciences 15 - Feed - UCLA
- Molecules and Cells - Feed - Johns Hopkins
- Replaceable You: Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering - iTunes - Jill Helms, Stanford
- Straight Talk About Stem Cells - iTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford
- Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics - iTunes - Christopher Scott, Stanford
Chemistry
- Biochemistry 1 - YouTube - S. Dasgupta, IIT
- Biochemistry 507 - iTunes - Multiple Professors, University of Wisconsin
- Chemical Structure and Reactivity - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Peter Vollhardt, UC Berkeley
- General Chemistry - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Kristie Boering, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Chemistry - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence - Introduction to Robotics - Multiple formats - Oussama Khatib, Stanford
- Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing - Multiple formats - Christopher Manning, Stanford
- Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Multiple formats - Andrew Ng, Stanford
- Artificial Intelligence - YouTube - P.Dasgupta, IIT
- Computer Graphics - YouTube - Sukhendu Das, IIT
- Computer Networks - YouTube - S.Ghosh, IIT
- Computer Science 1 - Feed - UCLA
- Discrete Mathematical Structures YouTube - Kamala Krithivasan, IIT
- Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Methodology - Multiple formats - Mehran Sahami, Stanford
- Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Abstractions - Multiple formats - Julie Zelenski, Stanford
- Introduction to Computer Science: Programming Paradigms - Multiple formats - Jerry Cain, Stanford
- Introduction to Computers - Feed - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Computer Graphics - YouTube - Prem Kalra, IIT
- Introduction to Problem Solving & Programming - YouTube - Deepak Gupta, IIT
- Multimedia Systems - iTunes - Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
- Operating Systems and System Programming - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- Operating Systems Principles - iTunes - Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame
- The Future of the Internet - iTunes - Ramesh Johari, Stanford
- The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - iTunes - Video Feed - Stream - Brian Harvey
- Understanding Computers and the Internet - iTunes - Feed - David Malan, Harvard University
Earth Sciences
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - MP3 - Feed - Bjorn Stevens, UCLA
- Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - George Brimhall, UC Berkeley
Engineering (Mechanical, Civil and Electrical)
- Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits - iTunes - MP3s - Ali Niknejad, UC Berkeley
- Convex Optimization I - Multiple Formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Convex Optimization 2 - Multiple Formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Dynamics of Machines - YouTube - Amitabha Ghosh, IIT
- Electrical - Digital Signal Processing YouTube - S.C Dutta Roy, IIT
- Electro Magnetic Fields - YouTube - Harishankar Ramachandran, III
- Environmental Air Pollution - YouTube -Mukesh Sharma, IIT
- Fluid Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - Omer Savas, UC Berkeley
- Fluid Mechanics - YouTube - T.I.Eldho, IIT
- Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Elad Alon
- Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems - Multiple formats - Stephen Boyd, Stanford
- Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits - iTunes - Feed - Chang-Hasnain, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Digital Electronics - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Bernhard Boser, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Engineering - iTunes - Multiple presenters, Duke University
- The Fourier Transform and its Applications - Multiple formats - Brad Osgood, Stanford
- Time, Money and Love in the Age of Technology - iTunes - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley
- Venture Design: The Startup Company - iTunes - Americ Azevedo, UC Berkeley
Geology
Information Sciences
- History of Information - iTunes - Feed - Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
- Information, Law and Policy - iTunes - Paul Sameulson, UC Berkeley
- Open Source and Distribution of Digital Information - iTunes - Feed - Multiple Professors, UC Berkeley
- Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business - iTunes - Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Mathematics
- Core Science Mathematics - YouTube - SK Ray, IIT
- Introduction to Statistics - iTunes - Fletcher Ibser, UC Berkeley
- The Calculus Lifesaver - Download Videos - Adrian Banner, Princeton
Natural Resources
- Wildlife Ecology - iTunes - Feed - Justin Brashares, UC Berkeley
- Woods Energy Seminar - iTunes - Multiple Professors, Stanford
Physics
- Electricity and Magnetism - iTunes - Video Download - Walter Lewin, MIT
- Fundamentals of Physics - Download Course - Ramamurti Shankar, Yale
- Introduction to Solar System Astronomy - iTunes - Feed - Richard Pogge, Ohio State
- Introductory Physics - iTunes - Robert Jacobsen, UC Berkeley
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Classic Mechanics (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Modern Theoretical Physics: Special Relativity (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford
- Quantum Entanglement Part 1: (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
- Quantum Entanglement Part 3: (Video) - iTunes - YouTube - Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
- Quantum Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley
- Quantum Mechanics - iTunes - Feed - John Terning, UC Davis
- Physics I: Classical Mechanics - iTunes - Video Download - Walter Lewin, MIT
- Physics III: Vibrations and Waves - iTunes - Video Download - Walter Lewin, MIT
- Physics for Future Presidents - iTunes - Feed - MP3s - Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers - iTunes - Feed - Steven Boggs, UC Berkeley
- Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe - iTunes - Feed - Richard Pogge, Ohio State
- String Theory, Black Holes, and the Laws of Nature (Video) - Videos - Andrew Strominger, Harvard
Psychology & Cognitive Sciences
- Brain Structure and its Origins - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
- Clinical Psychology - iTunes - Keltner & Chen, UC Berkeley
- Cognitive Neuroscience - iTunes - Feed - Stream - Richard Ivry, UC Berkeley
- Depression: Anxiety Disorders and Exercise - MP4 - UCSF
- Depression: Psychiatric Pitfalls & Treatment - MP4 - UCSF
- General Psychology - iTunes - Feed - John Kihlstrom, UC Berkeley
- History of Psychology - Feed - City University of New York
- Human Emotion - iTunes - Feed - Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Cognitive Psychology - iTunes - Feed - David Huber
- Introduction to Psychology - Download Course, Paul Bloom, Yale
- Introduction to Psychology - iTunes - MP3s - Jeremy Wolfe, MIT
- Introductory Psychology - Feed - UCLA
- Neuroscience and Behavior - iTunes - Download Course - Gerald Schneider, MIT
- Social Psychology - iTunes - Feed - Multiple professors, UC Berkeley
- Social Psychology - Feed - MP3s here - Benjamin R. Karney, UCLA
Business
- Entrepreneurship and Business Planning - iTunes - Feed - Mark Juliano, Carnegie Mellon
- Marketing 321 - iTunes - Elaine Daussy, Texas A&M
General Open Course Collections
- Indian Institute of Technology YouTube
- MIT OpenCourseWare Web Site iTunes
- Stanford iTunes
- UC Berkeley Web Site iTunes YouTube
- UCSD Web Site
- Yale University (Open Courses) - Web Site
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