Posted: 3/12/2008 at 04:29 PM
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Don't have the cash or time to pony up for an MIT education? Have no desire to live in Massachusetts? Want the flexibility and accessibility offered by online learning? Me too. Many top universities offer free courses online, Education Portal compiled a list of the top 10 options available and I've posted some of that list here (click on over to their page to read the complete list):
If you are looking for a wide range of free courses offered online, MIT is your best option. More than 1,800 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare project. Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number of different languages. Students all over the world use OpenCourseWare and 96 percent of visitors to this site say they would recommend it to someone else.
The Open University is the UK's largest academic institution. The school's OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level course materials from The Open University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, such as the arts, history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and technology.
Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a program called Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.
Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are sorted by school (i.e. School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, etc.) and include assignments, lecture notes and other supplementary materials.
Stanford University, one of the world's leading academic institutions, has joined forces with iTunes U in providing access to Stanford courses, lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs, and Macs and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it here for free.
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What do you think about online learning? Is it a near perfect solution for many people with disabilities? is it good but not great? Or is it a good idea that simply needs a lot of work to be ideal? Leave your opinion, a recommendation and what school you have experience with in the comments.
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Nice post, Tim! I've taken online classes myself and I think they're a great option for people who, for any reason- disability, family, work, etc- can't get to a traditional college for classes.
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