How to get a free education from the Internet

A great number of colleges, universities and companies have placed classes and educational materials on the internet for free. Some of the free courses can even be taken for credit!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet access, and the will or curiosity to study.

1. Annenberg media has many courses:
   http://www.learner.org/resources/
   
   Free-ed.net is dedicated to providing free learning resources and has many courses.
   http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/

2. Johns Hopkins University has many medical courses available.
   http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
   
   CDX is an online automotive technology textbook.
   http://www.cdxetextbook.com/
   
   The Small Business Administration offers several Business courses.
   http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html

3. Free online language courses
   http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
   
   MIT has the OpenCourseWare program
   http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
   
   The Whatcom math center is useful
   http://math.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/Links.phtml?cat=3
   
   Berkeley offers several video courses
   http://education.jimmyr.com/

4. For computer technology try InformIT
   http://www.informit.com/library/index.aspx
   
   ERI offers human resources training.
   http://www.informit.com/library/index.aspx
   
   There are many audio visual course links here:
   http://www.businessbookmall.com/Educational%20Videos%20Internet%20Library.htm

Tips & Warnings

• In education there is nothing quite so gratifying as learning what you want to, because you want to. If that is not your situation you need to remember why you are learning and keep your motivation fresh!
• Make sure you have time to study without interruption if at all possible.
• Know that the internet can be a volatile and hazardous place so protect yourself and let me know of any broken links :)

[StreetBloggers]

on 11/4/2008 good info

[ravenbroom]

on 7/10/2008 Internet courses are great. I am getting my Masters online since I live over 300 miles from any schooling I needed for it. Good advice.

[Meri]

on 7/10/2008 I've taken a couple classes like this and I love them. They have opened new avenues of thought...

[Psalmist4M]

on 6/6/2008 This is outstanding! Thank you, I've already signed up for some of these. Rating this one a 5!

[jmessina10]

on 5/27/2008 Great info article. Thanks for sharing.