Universities with the Best Free Online Courses — Education-Portal.com
December 22nd, 2007
Universities with the Best Free Online Courses — Education-Portal.com
here are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks some of the best free university courses for people who want to enhance personal knowledge or advance in their current field.1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
If you are looking for a wide range of free courses
online, MIT is your best option. There are more than 1,800 free courses
offered through the school’s OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in
audio, video and text format and can be translated into a number of
different languages. People from all over the world use OpenCourseWare
and 96 percent of visitors say they would recommend the site to someone
else.2. Open University (open.ac.uk)
The Open University is the UK’s largest academic
institution. The school’s OpenLearn website gives everyone free access
to undergraduate and graduate level course materials from The Open
University. Courses cover a broad range of topics, such as arts and
history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and
statistics, science, health and technology.3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University offers a huge collection
of free online courses and course materials through a program known as
the Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are set up to allow anyone at
the introductory college level to learn about a particular subject
without the help of a formal instructor. Course options include, but
are not limited to, statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French
and physics.4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)
Like MIT, Tufts University has OpenCourseWare that
is free to everyone. Courses are sorted by school (School of Medicine,
School of Arts and Sciences, etc.) and include lecture notes,
assignments and other supplementary materials.5. Stanford (stanford.edu)
Stanford University, one of the world’s leading
academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U to provide
access to Stanford courses, lectures, interviews and more. Courses can
be downloaded and played on your iPod, PC, or Mac and can also be
burned to a CD. If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it here for free.