Online Courses

Coursera has over 33 international partners and courses that span the humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business and computer science. 

The first MOOC -  an MIT course in electrical engineering - led to the creation of edX, a partnership between MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and University of Texas. McGill University, the University of Toronto and others have since joined, offering courses "designed to be interesting, fun and rigorous." 

The pioneer of MOOCS, MIT puts lecture notes, exams, and videos from more than 2,200 courses online for free (no registration required). Since many of these courses only include written material, you need to look under the heading "Audio/Visual" at the bottom of the website to find courses that include audio or video lectures.

Free 4-week courses in Education, Science & Tech, Marketing, Business, Health & Medicine, Management and Arts & Humanities. An initiative of Open Universities Australia.

Lagunita hosts many of the free online courses taught by Stanford Univeristy faculty and made available to lifelong learners around the world for self-enrichment. Click on a course for a full description, to see when it's offered, and to find reviews.    

Another Stanford initiative, Udacity is funded by Google and other tech firms and is chiefly technology oriented. Course materials are available to anyone, but to enrol in the full course experience, there is a monthly fee (approximately $200/month on average). "Nanodegrees" in specific areas are granted to those who enrol and pass the necessary courses.