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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...

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...

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. The aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education. The...

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...

Academic Earth curates links to free online courses from some of the world’s top universities. The site also features an ongoing series of original videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale which can be shared by the Academic Earth community. The platform doesn’t host the...

OpenLearn is the Open University's access point for its open and free online resources, with the aim of providing free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses operate on four levels - introductory, intermediate, advanced and masters – and include interactive tools...

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...

An online learning platform that allows anyone to host their own video courses, which cover a huge variety of topics from photography to cooking to programming. Udemy does not require specialized expertise or credentials to create and sell a course on the platform and all the courses are created...

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...

Ireland-based Alison is one of the world's largest free online learning websites and offers courses geared at enabling people to gain basic education and workplace skills with a strong learner base located in the developing world. Over 750 free courses are offered at Diploma or Certificate level...

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...

OpenUpEd works as a MOOC aggregator site for higher education, partnering with higher education institutions across 12 European countries. The site offers high-quality learner-centred courses that are designed for self-learning, and to be taken by either informal learners or formal students in a...

Overview Udacity offer cutting-edge online courses built in partnership with leading companies like Google, AT&T, and Facebook on everything from mastering web design to tech entrepreneurship. All courses are developed with input from leading education and industry experts. The content is...