Self-learning Programs without Certification
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
More than 2,000 free courses are offered through the school's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project.
Courses are in text, audio and video formats and translated into a number of different languages.
 Open University
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
OU's OpenLearn website gives everyone free access to both undergraduate and graduate-level
course materials from the University. Courses cover a wide range of topics, including the arts,
history, business, education, IT and computing, mathematics and statistics, science, health and
technology.
 Carnegie Mellon University
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Carnegie Mellon University offers a number of free online courses and materials through a
program called the Open Learning Initiative. OLI courses are intended to allow anyone at an
introductory college level to learn about a particular subject without formal instruction. Course
options include such offerings as statistics, biology, chemistry, economics, French and physics.
 Tufts University
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Like MIT, Tufts has OpenCourseWare that is available free to everyone. Courses are sorted by
school (i.e. the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine, etc.) and include assignments,
lecture notes and other supplementary materials.
 Stanford
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Stanford University has joined forces with iTunes U to provide access to Stanford courses,
lectures and interviews. These courses can be downloaded and played on iPods, PCs and Macs
and can also be burned to CDs. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it for free.
 University of California, Berkeley
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
UC Berkeley has been offering live and on-demand webcasts of many of their courses since 2001.
Hundreds of UC Berkeley classes, both current and archived, are now available as podcasts and
webcasts. Courses cover a range of subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer
programming, engineering, psychology, legal studies and philosophy.
 Utah State University
http://ocw.usu.edu/
Study options include everything from anthropology to physics and theater arts. These
comprehensive text-based courses can be downloaded as zip files or viewed directly on the site.
 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/course_listing.asp
Kutztown University's Small Business Development Center offers the largest collection of free
business courses available on the web. Course topics include entrepreneurship, accounting,
finance, government, business law, marketing and sales. Comprehensive text, interactive case
studies, slides, graphics and streaming audio help to demonstrate the concepts presented in
each course.
 University of Southern Queensland
http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
The University of Southern Queensland in Australia provides free online access to a number of
different courses through yet another OpenCourseWare initiative. Courses from each of the five
faculties are available covering a broad range of topics, including communication, science,
career planning, technology, teaching and multimedia creation.
 University of California, Irvine
http://ocw.uci.edu/
UC Irvine’s growing list of courses covers topics like financial planning, human resources,
capital markets and e-marketing. Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, assignments
and exams.