Open CourseWare (OCW) are FREE online materials of entire courses (syllabus, presentations, assignments, and assessments) published by select universities.
MERLOT (www.merlot.org) provides easy access to over 3,100 Free Online Courses. Simply click on a major topic heading and you can browse through the MERLOT collection of Free Online Courses.
- Arts
- Business
- Education
- Humanities
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Science and Technology
- Social Sciences
- Academic Support Services–Explore courses in ICT literacy, professional development for faculty and staff, and more.
Instititutions Providing Open CourseWare (OCW)
We’ve organized a list of US and UK universities that provide easy access to their courses. Review a list of partnering OCW institutions from around the world at OpenCourseWare Consortium.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Navigate the catalog of departments to find the courses you want - Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative
Navigate the list of subject areas to find the courses you want -
The Open University (UK)
Review the course list - UC Berkeley – WebCasts
Use the search engine to find relevant courses - University of Massachusetts, Boston
Review the course list - University of Michigan
Use the search engine to find relevant courses - University of Notre Dame
Review the course list - Washington State Colleges Open Course Library
Review the course list - Utah State University
Review the course list - Weber State University
Review the course list - John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Review the categories of courses - Monterey Bay Institute-HippoCampus
Review the topic areas for their courses - UC College Prep Open Access
Review the topic areas for their courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s)
A MOOC is a type of FREE online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals suggested by open educational resources.
- edX- Open courses offered by founding partners Harvard and MIT, as well as UC Berkeley and University of Texas. The institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide.
- Udacity- Founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their courses could be offered online for very low cost. In its first month, over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course.
- Coursera- Offer courses spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others.