Where to learn shit.... for free.

[GenesForLife]

Coursera! ( www.coursera.org )

They've got a superb range of courses.

Udacity might be another.

[Rum]

It isn't on-line (well bits are) and it does cost a tenner to join up but if you live in the UK and you are 'getting on a bit' as I am..(I suppose!)..then the University of the Third Age is brilliant. I have joined a French class! And I am doing a couple more too I think.

http://www.u3a.org.uk/

[Red Celt]

I'm not sure if it has already been covered by some of the other links, but I highly recommend this 12 lecture series. You can't really complain about free Harvard lectures. After watching them, I've since bought a couple of books by Sandel. He also features (briefly) in some of my philosophy material.

Harvard University's Justice with Michael Sandel

A great introduction to some of the key concepts of moral philosophy (concentrating on justice).

[Ronja]

Maybe we should hunt down all other threads like this, merge them and sticky the result in the Seminar?

[orpheus]

Maybe we should hunt down all other threads like this, merge them and sticky the result in the Seminar?

+1

[Animavore]

I applied for a short course in genetics a couple of weeks ago on Coursera

[PsychoSerenity]

Found another one: http://education-portal.com

They're popping up all over the place.

And according to this article some of these sites are now doing proper qualifications too. I feel sorry for those poor kids that have been duped into paying nine grand a year tuition fees at a time when the cost of education is plummeting.

[Pappa]

Found another one: http://education-portal.com

They're popping up all over the place.

And according to this article some of these sites are now doing proper qualifications too. I feel sorry for those poor kids that have been duped into paying nine grand a year tuition fees at a time when the cost of education is plummeting.

Ooh nice. I just signed up to EdX.

[Animavore]

I started the genetics course last week. First test this week.

[rasetsu]

The online Daystrom Institute can service your more stellar treks.

[fretmeister]

How to Reason and Argue

https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain

[cogwheel]

ITunesU, if you don't mind having apple software on your computer.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/itune ... 0000?mt=10

[Santa_Claus]

At the risk of derailing this thread (Mods feel free to move!).........

.....has anyone started setting up a FREE University (or simply free degrees?). By that I mean something where the degree would not only be recognised as valid internationally but also genuinely be worthwhile / the equivalent of anything at a Bricks and Morter University.

My thinking is that for some subjects the content / lectures done online would be cheap enough and that their would be people willing to contribute their time for free to create the content (The Univeristy of Wiki!) or simply for some advertising of own work / business).........the tricky (and expensive?) part comes when the exams are needed........but I see no reason why the cost of that could not be covered by Charitable Foundations / Business (even if the Student has to pay for self to attend somewhere physical - for some that a bus, for others a jumbo jet).

I am leaving aside that for some (many? / most?) that the Interent / distance learning model would not work - but clearly it does for enough with the Open University, however that is not without some cost.

Any thoughts?

[Pappa]

EdX seems to be heading in that direction.