From Fall 2015 Technology in Education Data Base
How Free Online Courses are Changing Traditional Education
This video is a PBS NewsHour airing that discusses how free online courses are revolutionizing education.
Free Online Courses Keep Retirees in the Know
This article talks about the fact that free online courses help to educate people even in old age.
Free Online College Courses Becoming Increasingly Popular
This article discusses the increasing popularity of free online courses intended for personal development.
How Elite Universities are Using Online Education
This article tries to answer how and why free online education is going to be a permanent staple in elite universities.
Universities
A number of elite universities have adopted a new mission to use online education to educate people from all walks of life.
- Yale Online
- MIT Open Courseware
- HarvardX
- Brown University Online Learning
- Columbia University
- Free Online Classes: Unlocking the Ivory Tower
- This article discusses Columbia’s venture in creating and developing free online classes.
- Here is Columbia’s Coursera MOOC list.
- Here is Columbia’s edX MOOC list.
- Free Online Classes: Unlocking the Ivory Tower
- Cornell University Online Learning
- Dartmouth Lifelong Learning
- Dartmouth Joins with Colleges Offering Free Courses Online
- This article talks about why Dartmouth chose to follow suit in developing free online courses.
- Here is a list of Dartmouth’s free online courses.
- Dartmouth Joins with Colleges Offering Free Courses Online
- Penn Open Learning
- Princeton Online Learning
Open Culture
This website provides links to 1,100 free online courses offered by leading universities around the world.