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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...

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...

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...

Open2Study no longer offers free courses. The site now only offers paid Accredited online courses available via Open Universities Australia. Open2Study is an initiative of Open Universities Australia which itself is an Australian leader in accredited online education through collaboration of...

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...

iversity.org is an education platform that offers online courses in collaboration with universities, companies and NGOs. The company, originally founded in 2011, was the first European platform to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as the first platform globally that offered...

FutureLearn is a UK-based MOOC platform wholly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group, and offers a diverse selection of free courses from leading universities and internationally renowned organisations from around the world. Users can browse the individual course list or take...

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...

EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) from the world’s top universities, colleges and organizations. With more than 90 global partners, EdX currently has 2,300+ faculty and staff teaching over 950 courses. Courses are free with the exception of...

Coursera is the largest MOOC platform partnering with top universities and organizations to offer online courses for anyone to take. With the most diverse course selection of all the MOOC providers, Coursera currently has over 17 million students and 2,000+ courses from 146 partner institutions...