Free Online Education

[Vargha Poralli]

I just came across two great sites that offer free online education on various subjects. Some of them I found usefull and decided to share them with other Comtades

1) Free Education on the Internet (http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/)


Originally posted by From the Site
Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines.

Study programs for homeschooling, advanced college prep, GED, technical careers, lifelong learning, and much, much more.

Simply pick a course and go to work on it.
No sign-ups, no passwords, no credit-card requests

2) MIT Open Courseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html)

Explanation not needed I think. This site is run by MIT.

[Sir_No_Sir]

just google "free education" or something along those lines and youll find plenty

[ComradeOm]

There's also OpenLearn (http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php) from the open university. It should of course be noted that none of these free courses (including the MIT ones) offer the possibility of degrees or formal qualifications.

[FOREVER LEFT]

You can also, as Abbie Hoffaman pointed out in Steal this Book, get a free education at any college or university. It works like this: Check out the school's course catalog for time and place. Show up at the beginning of class and ask the professor if he will let you sit in during the semester. He won't grade you and you won't get credit or a diploma but you can learn a thing or two.