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Everyday, more resources are becoming available to any one who spends time online. Colleges and universities are opening up and letting everyone access some of their best courses and learning material. Teachers and experts are creating amazing content and hundreds of thousands of people are taking advantage of it. In the past few years there has been an explosion of companies and organizations that are trying to make all of this material available online. Here are some of the most notable places to find amazing free material online today.
iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
iTunes U allows K-12 schools, colleges, and universities to create and distribute course material for free. The functions of iTunes U are much like those of Podcasts in that users can either download individual streams or subscribe to a stream so that iTunes will automatically download it.
Udemy http://www.udemy.com/
Udemy helps you learn from amazing instructors from all around the world, so that you can get there and get there faster. Udemy recruits experts from a variety of fields to create and teach courses to students. These expert instructors have taught over 500,000 students on Udemy, helping them learn everything from programming to photography to design to yoga and more. The majority of courses you have to pay for, but if you do your research you can find some great free ones. Learn real skills from real experts.
Udacity https://www.udacity.com/
Udacity is a relative newbie in the space with their first offered course coming in 2011 through Stanford University. 160,000 students enrolled in that first course, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. 90,000 more students enrolled in the next two courses that rolled out in March 2012. They currently have 15 active courses and in October received $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, weve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. Higher Education for Free
edX https://www.edx.org/
EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise with founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. The two institutions have each contributed $30 million of resources to the nonprofit project. In December 2012, it was announced that Georgetown University and Wellesley College would become edX partners. Wellesley would be the first liberal arts college to offer courses, and both would start in fall 2013.
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
Coursera partners with various universities and makes a few of their courses available online free for a large audience. As of November 2012 more than 1,900,241 students from 196 countries have enrolled in at least one course. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions.
TED http://www.ted.com/
It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. On TED.com the best talks and performances from TED and partners are available for free. More than 1,400 TED Talks are now available. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.