1. MIT Open Courseware You can download all the course material, which is nearly identical to the course taught at MIT (it even gives you the year and semester it was taught). It is an independent study for you to complete within a given period.
  2. Learning Space: The Open University You can download free online courses in lots of different categories such as youth and children, languages, business, engineering, and others. You also get to see the ratings of every course and classes.
  3. EdX It offers many free online courses from different universities and the classes have a specific length and duration. After you sign up, you are committing to the class time and assignments. You can register for classes offered by Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and other prestigious schools. If you are looking for a class you can do on your own time, this isn’t the website for you. The classes here are similar to paid online learning classes.
  4. Coursera You can access classes from 16 different Universities’ including Princeton, Duke, Stanford, and CalTech. With over 1,000,000 users, Coursera has established itself as the central “go-to” website for free online University learning. It usually takes 10-14 days and is very effective.
  5. OpenCulture The lectures come in either iTunes, Web video, YouTube, etc. In addition to course listings, they also offer lists of free audio books, free textbooks, and free language lessons. This site does not offer its own curriculum, but rather it compiles resources for easy navigating.
  6. Open Yale Courses Open Yale courses offers a great website that is easy to navigate and comprehensive. There are a variety of subjects offered, which can either be downloaded as a zip file, or viewed online. Each lecture has a video (which was recorded during the actual course on campus), plus a transcript and a PDF of slides used during the presentation. The videos come as chapters of which you don’t have to complete everything in one sitting you can back to it later.