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Edraak is an initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation for education development to deliver free high quality online courses to the Arabic-speaking world. The platform, is built on edX open source technology and features over 76 different courses in various topics covering Business, Health, STEM...

Polimi Open Knowledge - POK is the MOOC platform deigned by Politecnico di Milano-METID on the basis of Open edX. Politecnico di Milano (Polimi) is one of the main Polytechnic Universities in Italy. It offers degrees in Engineering, Architecture, and Design. POK stands for Polimi Open...

miríadaX was created in late 2012 with a clear mission: to promote open knowledge in Higher Education in Ibero-America. A free and open knowledge that is transmitted and enriched by the network. miríadaX is available to anyone interested in Massive Open Online Courses for free through an open...

Sophia is an educational platform providing both free resources for teachers and students and Sophia Pathways for College Credit: 20 low-cost self-paced online courses offering college credit eligible for transfer to more than 2,000 colleges and universities in the US. Sophia Pathways for...

Stanford Online is a website offering 100+ free online courses taught by Stanford faculty to lifelong learners worldwide. The site offers both scheduled and self-paced courses categorised into 10 subject areas and offered through a number of different platforms, including Coursera, NovoEd and...

Ed2go offers affordable online learning for adults through a network of over 2,100 top colleges and universities, and other organizations. The course offerings are designed for either personal enrichment or to learn or enhance a particular work-based skill. Each course is instructor-led, and...

TheGreatCourses.com (formerly The Teaching Company) offers over 600 college-level courses taught by professors available for purchase on CD, DVD, or digital formats. Each course contains on average 12-24 lectures with each lecture running 30 minutes to an hour in length. Courses are accessible...

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. The site's mission is to support learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for...

Eliademy is a free online educational platform that allows educators, organisations and students to create, share and manage online courses with real-time discussions and task management. The Finland based platform offers a wide range of both free and low-cost courses in multiple languages...

Open Learning at Harvard At Harvard Extension School, free and open learning is hardly a new concept. In fact, the Extension School was founded with this mission in mind: to create an affordable way for any motivated student to take courses at Harvard. We stay true to this mission today...

Open.Michigan features academic content created by the University of Michigan community for research, teaching or learning experiences. The initiative aims to help people find, use, and create openly licensed content and provides a space to share their educational content, with resources on how...

Gresham College is an independent higher education institution offering access to over 2,000 free public lectures on topics from history to medicine and from politics to mathematics delivered by leading academics and public figures. Lectures are categorised by subject area featuring both past...

The University of California, Irvine’s OCW is a web-based repository of various UC Irvine courses and video lectures from UC Irvine faculty, seminar participants, and instructional staff. While the great majority of courses are drawn from graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education...

Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used to support the university’s formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities. Each Utah State University OCW course Web site is developed...

UMass Boston OCW is a free and open undergraduate and graduate educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners worldwide. The Open Courseware caters for high school students preparing for college, faculty looking for ideas for a new course, or individuals researching a topic. UMass...

YouTube EDU is Google’s library of 700,000+ high-quality educational videos from partners like Khan Academy, Stanford and TED-Ed. The site allows users to discover, create, and share educational videos. Students can use YouTube EDU to find short lessons to supplement learning, watch full courses...

iTunes U is an Apple iTunes application where colleges and universities from around the world can offer free courses and study resources covering a wide array of subjects, openly available to anyone. Currently, over 800 colleges and universities from across the globe provide post-secondary...

GCFLearnFree creates and provides free, self-paced, online tutorials across 85 skills including technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. The site delivers over 2,000 different lessons and learners can choose to view only one lesson or to complete an...

Free-Ed.Net is a source of free online courses and other study resources that cover virtually all trade and academic subjects commonly found in traditional schools and universities. The learning resources are selected from thousands of websites and then compiled into meaningful study programs...

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats. The integrated web...