For those who might be interested, here's a few sites which offer courses and lectures online, and most of them even free of cost.
There are so many really good ones out there, and also each university, including the biggies like Harvard, Oxford, Yale and Stanford, has its own online portal which offers many of their classroom lectures free of cost.
Yay.....for an open source world.
1. Coursera.org
Coursera.org is a website that partners with universities and organizations around the world. It brings a wide variety of topics and perspectives to one searchable database, and includes courses from many top universities, museums and trusts.
The page highlights 1000 lectures, videos and podcasts from universities around the world and features a lot of material found only on university private sites.
Udemy’s courses are similar in concept to Coursera’s but it additionally allows users to build custom courses from lessons. Working with many top professors and schools, the site mixes the customizable platform of other sites with a heavy emphasis on top quality content. This is a site that mixes free and paid content.
A very convenient place for free online education, because it integrates seamlessly with your iPod, or any app-ready Apple device. Courses are often a mix of free podcasts or videos, and paid content. It does include courses on a pretty wide scope of topics.
Ironically enough, the one series that first caught my attention as I browsed around happened to be on itunes, and I don't use apple products. Plus the site said this worked only on apple products.
But lo and behold, not true. I tried and found we can download the itunes app on a windows system too. That's how I got to my Stanford lecture yesterday !
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