Free On-line courses
Open online courses have become a trend in education in recent years. Those online courses are taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at University, and are free and open access to public. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn. There are hundreds of thousands of different courses available online at no cost provided by various universities including most famous universities in the world such as Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc. You can study anything from science to philosophy, from human resources to zoology in your own home at no cost.
Below are the links for some free online courses:
1. Open Yale Course
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses
2. MIT Open Course:
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT
3. UC Berkeley Online:
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley
4. Harvard Open Course:
http://www.harvard.edu/faqs/free-courses
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Harvard/
5. New York University Open Education:
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/nyu
6. Columbia Online Learning:
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/onlinelearning/gdl-at-columbia/
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/columbiauniversity
Other Online Learning Agencies:
Coursera partners with top universities to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the these universities educate not only thousands of students, but millions.
edX is a joint partnership between Harvard and MIT (see also MITx) that offers fully online courses to anyone in the world, for free. The edX open-source learning platform provides online self-paced courses, features collaborative tools and resources, offers assessment, and even provides online laboratories.
Udacity (University + Audacity) is the name coined by Sebastian Thrun, who left Stanford to lead a global online university that offers computer sciences classes in a virtual global environment to any learner, novice and expert alike.
Khan Academy boasts self-paced study on the sciences and humanities. Often these courses are used to supplement material taught in K-12 classrooms. Learners are assessed, and their teachers they may retrieve learning statistics to determine what content has been mastered and which requires more review.
University of the People is a tuition-free online university devoted to providing universal access to quality, online post-secondary education to qualified students. UoPeople is led by a number of former Columbia administrators, including David Cohen, the University’s former vice president and dean of the Faculty for Arts & Sciences at Columbia University, who serves as UoPeople’s provost.
Open University in the United Kingdom offers courses on 12 subject areas to anyone in the world. Students pay a modest fee for courses and certificate programs.
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) is a peer-based global learning system whose premise is that some of the best learning is peer-based.P2P partners with external organizations to cluster courses and create reputable schools of open learning. Examples include theP2PU/Mozilla School of Webcraft, School of Data with Open Knowledge Foundation, School of Social Innovation, School of Ed, and School of Maths.
Iversity: a Germany-based institute offers courses in both English and German and the first courses went online in October 2014.
Duolingo: offers completely free language education for those looking to learn a second langrage.
CodeAcademy teaches programming and coding in online, free and interactive lessons, if you’re interested in learning a valuable computer coding skill.
For details of Massive open online course, go to wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
| Attributes of major MOOC providers[142] | ||||
| Initiatives | For profit | Free to access | Certification fee | Institutional credits |
| EdX | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Coursera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Udacity | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Udemy | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial |
| P2PU | No | Yes | No | No |
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