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):
The Best Credit Card Bonus Offers – October 2024
Big List of Free Stocks from Brokerage Apps
Best Interest Rates on Cash - October 2024
Free Credit Scores x 3 + Free Credit Monitoring
Best No Fee 0% APR Balance Transfer Offers
Little-Known Cellular Data Plans That Can Save Big Money
How To Haggle Your Cable or Direct TV Bill
Big List of Free Consumer Data Reports (Credit, Rent, Work)
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.
Khan Academy on Youtube have lectures on every conceivable subjects.
http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy
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.
Some more institutions offering free online materials are here:
http://education-portal.com/articles/Colleges_and_Universities_that_Offer_Free_Courses_Online.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2kg6dg
Great stuff, thanks a lot. I was only aware of the MIT courses.
Great post!… I love your blog!
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.
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/
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….
ecorner.stanford.edu
Excellent post Jonathan. Let me add http://www.manager-tools.com/ to your list. They have 100s podcasts for management development. Thanks for sharing!
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/