December 2007/ January 2008
From Astrophysics to Zoology
Free Online Courses
Many colleges and university now offer course content, lectures and seminars online for free. Courses you can find include such diverse offerings as Advanced Corporate Risk Management at MIT and Spa Operations at University of California, Irvine.
The Open Courseware Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
OpenCourseWare, a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions, is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
Education Portal
http://education-portal.com
Although difficult to find amongst the barrage of information avaialable about a wide range of continuing education offerings, Education Portal does offer links to a number of universities offering free courses. (Navigation on this site is confusing. It's best to use this direct link to the free course listings, but if you get lost use the search box to find "free courses.")
I-Tunes/UC Berkley
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkley and numerous other schools make course materials available on I-Tunes.
More I-Tunes
Using google or your favorite search engine, search for "itunes U" or "itnues edu" to return direct links to the many universities offering online course materials, lectures, symposiums, etc via I-Tunes.
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