Open Education

Free online courses are an excellent way to expand your knowledge and skills without the financial burden of traditional education. These courses are offered by reputable institutions and cover a wide range of subjects, from computer science to humanities. Unlike regular websites, these platforms provide structured learning experiences, often including video lectures, assignments, and assessments. You can access high-quality education from anywhere in the world, enhancing your academic and professional development.

Note: we have not evaluated the individual courses found on these websites and cannot guarantee their accuracy, relevancy, or credibility.

Additional Sites

• iBiology - iBiology’s mission is to convey, in the form of open-access free videos, the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made.
• JHSPH Open Courseware - Freely and openly available John Hopkins School of Public Health course materials. You may share and adapt the materials on OCW under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
• Open Course Library - The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.
• Open Yale - Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
• UC Irvine Open CourseWare - The University of California, Irvine has created open courses for the Physical Sciences. Its OpenChem project contains video lectures and additional material for nearly all the courses needed to complete an undergraduate chemistry degree.