Find Free Online Courses (Not for Credit)
FREE online materials of entire courses (syllabus, presentations, assignments, and assessments) published by select universities are available for you. You can use these resources to supplement the learning materials for the courses you are currently taking or learn what you need and want on your own.
Simply click on a major topic heading and browse through the MERLOT collection of Free Online Courses:
Arts
Business
Education
Humanities
Mathematics and Statistics
Science and Technology
Social Sciences
Academic Support ServicesOpen Education Consortium: A Worldwide Collection of Free Online Course Curriculum
Higher education institutions around the world have been posting their curriculum for entire courses online and providing people permission to freely use and to use for free the open courseware.
SEARCH Open Courseware:
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FIND Open Courseware by Provider:
- Academica
- African Virtual University
- AGH University of Science and Technology
- Capilano University
- Dixie State College of Utah
- Eastern Mediterranean University
- Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV Online
- Gunadarma University
- Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
- Hokkaido University
- IE University
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Kaplan University Online & Campus Learning
- Korea University
- Kyoto Seika University
- Kyushu University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Middle East Technical University
- MOSCOW ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE
- National Cheng Kung University
- National Chiao Tung University
- National Dong Hwa University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Paris Tech
- People's Open Access Education Initiative
- Shahid Beheshti University
- Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU)
- Taipei Medical University
- Tecnológico de Monterrey
- The Open University
- The Open University of Israel
- The University of Nottingham
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- TU Delft
- Tufts University
- UNISUL - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
- United Nations University
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Universidad de Alicante
- Universidad de Cantabria
- Universidad de Granada
- Universidad del Valle - Colombia
- Universidad de Monterrey
- Universidad de Murcia
- Universidad de Navarra
- Universidad de Oviedo
- Universidad de Salamanca
- Universidad de Sevilla
- Universidad de Zaragoza
- Universidad Estatal a Distancia
- Universidad Icesi
- Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
- Universidad Politécnica Madrid
- UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA
- Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
- Universitat de Barcelona
- Universitat de les Illes Balears
- Universitat de Lleida
- Universitat de Valéncia
- Universitat Jaume I
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC)
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Cape Town
- University of Massachusetts Boston
- University of Michigan
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Sumatera Utara
- University of Tsukuba
- VideoLectures.net
Heres a few quick links to OCW provided by other higher education institutions
- Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative
Navigate the list of subject areas to find the courses you want - UC Berkeley – WebCasts
Use the search engine to find relevant courses - Washington State Colleges Open Course Library
Review the course list - Utah State University
Review the course list
- Weber State University
Review the course list - Monterey Bay Institute-HippoCampus
Review the topic areas for their courses - UC College Prep Open Access
Review the topic areas for their courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s)
A MOOC is a type of FREE online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals suggested by open educational resources.
- Coursera- Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take Coursera classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of Cousera's classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. Coursera's courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively.
- edX- Courses offered by edX are designed to be interesting, fun and rigorous. edX states that their courses "are the best courses, from the best professors and the best schools, spanning dozens of subjects. Some edX courses now offer ID verified Certificates of Achievement. A new way to demonstrate your achievement and showcase your knowledge" EdX offers MOOCs and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence (AI).
- Udacity- Courses offered by Udacity are highly interactive with activities, quizzes, and exercises interspersed between short videos and talks by instructors and industry experts. You can watch the videos and try the quizzes as many times as you like without any penalties. The quizzes are a tool to help you learn. Usually after a lesson, there will be a problem set with exercises for you to check if you have learned the material in that lesson. Problem set completion may be included in the requirements for a certificate for the course. However, just like with the quizzes, you can try them as many times as you like without penalty.
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