online courses

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...

StraighterLine is a U.S. online educational site that offers low-price, online introductory level higher education courses that are covered in the first two years of most college degree plans. Straighterline itself is not accredited, but has partnerships with 80+ accredited colleges and...

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...

Johns Hopskins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) Open Courseware (OCW) provides open and free access to content from their most popular courses. The site offers over 100 educational resources on 20+ topics from 10 academic departments covering Public Health, such as disease, nutrition...

Lynda.com offers 4,000+ online video tutorials covering software applications such as Adobe, Articulate, Google, Microsoft etc as well as creative and business skills. Courses addressing all aspects of web development are organized into short lesson segments with high quality instruction aided...

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...

Springboard offers online, flexible, mentor-led courses including free Learning Paths, Workshops, and Career Tracks with a job guarantee where students who don’t get hired within six months of graduation get a 100% tuition refund. Each Springboard student gets paired with an industry mentor who...

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...

Janux is an online interactive learning community created in partnership between The University of Oklahoma and technology company NextThought. It gives students direct connections to courses, educational resources, faculty, and each other, offering interactive content and social tools. All...

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. The site offers a vast collection of open courseware via direct links to courses and...

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...

University of the People (UoPeople) is a tution-free, non-profit, accredited online academic institution offering Associates and Bachelors degree programs in Business Administration and Computer Science. UoPeople does not charge for tuition or books/materials, but a one-time application...