Open CourseWare (OCW) are FREE online materials of entire courses (syllabus, presentations, assignments, and assessments) published by select universities. MERLOT ( provides easy access to almost 5 Free Online Courses. Simply click on a major topic heading and you can browse through the MERLOT collection of Free Online Courses. 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 Open Education Consortium. Massive Open Online…

Embry-Riddle Worldwide offers MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) to anyone with an Internet connection and a desire to learn about aviation. And they are free! The course, Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) - Key Concepts for New Users,runs from Feb. 6 to Feb. 19. R Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) - Key Concepts for New Users, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) presented by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide. This course introduces participants to concepts related to the operations of unmanned aerospace systems. The MOOC is perfect for recreational drone…

A successful healthcare system relies on a the coordinated efforts of many professionals. Doctors, specialists, nurses, and individuals not directly involved in the delivery of healthcare — such as billing, coding, and finance professionals — provide intricately related services. Thankfully, the entire academic arena of healthcare administration is dedicated to organizing and continually improving the industry. Students can preview this dynamic field through an array of free online healthcare administration courses. Administrators are charged with both day-to-day decisions and…

It is a grand vision: a global college with no tuition, accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. When higher education entrepreneur laid out his ambitious plan to build a free university that would use modern technology to spread the promise of a college degree to all corners of the earth, he got an enthusiastic reaction from some high-profile institutions. The United Nations has backed the venture. So has Yale Law School s Information Society Project. Reshef and his lieutenants also like to mention the many letters of support and offers to pitch in from professors…

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities. Harvard’s involvement follows M.I.T.’s announcement in December that it was starting an open online learning project, MITx. Its first course, Circuits and Electronics, began in March, enrolling about 120, students, some 10, of whom made it through the recent midterm…

MIT announced today a pilot program allowing learners worldwide to take a semester’s worth of courses in its top-ranked, one-year Supply Chain Management (SCM) master’s program completely online, then complete an MIT master’s degree by spending a single semester on campus. MIT also announced a new academic credential for the digital age: the “MicroMaster’s, ” which can be earned through MITx by students who pass a comprehensive examination upon the successful completion of the same semester’s worth of online SCM courses. Classes begi

About 95 percent of students enrolled in free, online courses from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped them before getting a completion certificate. Out of 841, 687 registrants in 17 courses offered in 2012 and 2013 by the universities’ joint EdX program, 43, 196 saw the classes to conclusion, according to an e-mailed statement from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based schools. Some of the students signed up for multiple courses, according to the statement. Harvard and MIT began the $60 million EdX project in 2012 as an experiment to research…

The HarvardX Working Papers consists of papers and reports that give researchers and the broader public access to current research findings from the HarvardX research organization. HarvardX Working Papers are generally written by HarvardX researchers, or their collaborators, and they use HarvardX data to inform the learning of students on and off campus. Building our prior work describing the first two years of open online courses launched on edX, this study reviews four years of data and represents one of the largest surveys of MOOCs: spanning 290 MIT and Harvard online courses…

The Trays at Harvard GSD. Image © Kris Snibbe/Harvard University News Office The Harvard Graduate School of Design has announced a new, free online course entitled The Architectural Imagination. Taught by the school s Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory K. Michael Hays alongside Professor of Architectural History Erika Naginski and G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology Antoine Picon, the course is advertised as introductory level and described as teaching how to read architecture as a cultural expression as well as a technical…

Machine learning is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting fields out there, and deep learning represents its true bleeding edge. In this course, you’ll develop a clear understanding of the motivation for deep learning, and design intelligent systems that learn from complex and/or large-scale datasets. We’ll show you how to train and optimize basic neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and long short term memory networks. Complete learning systems in TensorFlow will be introduced via projects and assignments. You will learn to solve new classes of problems that…

First Wharton decided to offer the core of its first year MBA program online. Now Harvard Business School is exploring online options as well. Increasingly, it s possible to get an extremely well-rounded business education from the best professors in the world without enrolling in a university or even leaving your house. While online courses won t necessarily give you the pay boost of a traditional two-year MBA and probably won t land you a job on Wall Street, they can give you many of the core skills taught at top universities and business schools. We ve found some of the best…

Despite the bad rap the financial industry has received in recent years, planning for a career in finance still remains a smart proposition. In fact, issues plaguing the industry today only emphasize the current need for highly educated financial professionals to keep things on track. As a result, choosing to earn a degree in finance could lead to a rather lucrative career upon graduation. Like marketing, finance is typically considered to be a specialized area of business administration. It is also a field that can be specialized in or studied independently via online finance…

University of Pennsylvania and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are jointly launching a free massive open online course on social norms and social change. The complete course, which consists of one theoretical and one practical part á 4 weeks coursework, is taught entirely in English. Students who already attended previous sessions of the course rated the first part of the course with 4.5 and the second part of the course with 5.0 out of 5.0 possible points. The first course will teach students how to make the distinction between social norms and social constructs…