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Founded in 2012 by George Mason University economics professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University is building the world’s largest online library of free economics education videos -- currently weighing in at more than 800 videos. Tyler and Alex are also authors of...

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...

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...

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...

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) undergraduate and graduate course content, representing over 80,000 free resources, allowing users to enhance or refresh their knowledge or teach others. The site also features a High...

Open Education is a cloud based platform powered by the latest Blackboard technology which allows educators to publish courses or course content as Open Education Resources. Learners have access to over 300 free online courses from over 100 different educational institutions covering a range of...

Saylor Academy provides free, open, university-like classes in partnership with colleges, universities, and businesses. The Academy offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels available on your schedule, and free of cost. All courses are self-paced and are...

Khan Academy is one of the leaders in free online education, with a primary focus on K-12 level education. It offers a personalized learning resource for all ages with practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace...

Canvas Network is an open, online course platform launched by the American educational software company Instructure and powered by the Canvas open source learning management system (LMS). The platform allows institutions to provide classes to the public, setting their own course structure and...

EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) from the world’s top universities, colleges and organizations. With more than 90 global partners, EdX currently has 2,300+ faculty and staff teaching over 950 courses. Courses are free with the exception of...