How to Find Free College Courses Online & Other Free Learning Sources

Always wanted to go to college but didn't have the money? Want to learn a new language? How about take a computer course, learn how to write a business plan or take a business management class? Or maybe it's time to take some college courses from MIT or Notre Dame. Well what's stopping you?

Here is how to take college courses online for free!

Instructions

1. Use several high quality education institutions and organizations from all over the world that have made free educational content available online through "opencourseware". You can search for these online using terms such as "opencourseware classes", "open courseware", etc. You can also search on the web sites for schools you know of to see if any free college courses are offered. If you are looking for a particular type of class, you may want to include that in your search. For example, "free business management opencourseware".

   You can find several examples of free college courses and other learning sources that are available online in the resources section below.

2. Search through several highly regarded Colleges that are participating such as Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of California, Tufts University and many others. Other Universities including Yale have their own version of free college courses available through their own web sites.

3. Take advantage of other free education materials offered through other sources such as the Goodwill Industries GCF online learning programs, Microsoft training programs, American Sign Language learning tools and many more.

4. Locate other free educational programs by doing an online search using terms such as "free classes online", "free online learning" or narrow your search to a specific topic such as "free computer classes online", "free design courses online" etc.

5. Check with resources you may already use or are familiar with. Look to see if your local library system offers online access to any free learning sources. Community centers, web sites for magazines, television networks, stores that specialize in DIY (do-it-yourself) or educational products etc. are all great places to check for free online educational programs.

6. Be aware, you won't get credits for these free courses, or that fancy diploma, but you can learn a thing or two and all it's going to cost you is time.

Resources

• Open Courseware Consortium
• Open Yale Courses
• The Open University
• Free Ed.Net
• Word2Word
• Learnthat
• Goodwill GCF LearnFree
• Microsoft Office Online
• Stanford School of Engineering
• How to Learn Sign Language Online Free
• Self Made Scholar - Directory of Free Online Classes