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Open Course Report (390)
Online Course Report offers a search featuring over 10,000 online courses, the large majority of which are free. Courses are cataloged according to difficulty and cover a wide variety of topics. Other site features include reviews of online learning platforms as well as “pathways” which step readers through free online learning materials helpful for obtaining business-ready skill sets.
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Open Culture (319)
While not a learning platform, Open Culture, a site that offers the best of free cultural and educational media around the web, has compiled a list of 1100 free online courses from top universities. Courses are divided in an in-depth topical way. Many courses have a number of ways to enjoy them, including audio, video, notes, and syllabus. Elsewhere around the site a wide range of free educational material can be found.
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Open Education (238)
Join the world's largest learning community. Free. Powered by Blackboard
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Open Learning at Harvard (512)
At Harvard Extension School, free and open learning is hardly a new concept. In fact, the Extension School was founded with this mission in mind: to create an affordable way for any motivated student to take courses at Harvard. We stay true to this mission today, offering several free courses and nearly 800 for-credit courses at reasonable tuition rates.
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Open Learning Initiative (295)
Carnegie Mellon University
The Open Learning Initiative offers online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to combine open, high-quality courses, continuous feedback, and research to improve learning and transform higher education.
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Open Yale Courses (313)
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
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Open2Study (304)
Open2Study offers over 45 free online courses often centered around skillsets or areas of general interest. Most courses are live, and announced some time before they have started so students may join in with a cohort. An active forum section helps to supplement course offerings, as well as assessments, simulators, and quizzes. For a fee, some certifications and accredited degrees are also available through Open2Study.
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OpenLearn (281)
OpenLearn is the home for free learning from the Open University, and offers around 750 free courses on a wide variety of topics. Free courses come clearly labelled by media type, with many including audio, activities, video, and readings. Most free courses are provided on an on-demand basis, allowing you to start whenever you would like. Start a profile to build up a number of badges showing what you’ve been working on.
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OpenUPED (310)
OpenUpEd is a collaboration between partner institutions in 12 European countries seeking to create the first pan-European MOOCs initiative. Currently the platform offers over 175 courses for free in a variety of topics and languages. A workload ranking offers the estimated amount of work each course is believed to take relative to other courses. OpenUpEd has a number of ongoing quality assurance procedures as well, hoping to ensure their goal of how MOOCs in different institutional and cultural settings can help with the opening up of education.
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Saylor Academy (293)
Saylor Academy offers around 100 open courses online, many of which can be taken for credit by select institutions. All courses are not only open, but open licensed, so that you can reuse and remix them as you please in your own educational or teaching endeavors. Current featured pathways include foundational courses, full curricula (in business administration or computer science), career-related courses, for-credit courses, and partner programs. Compared to many other MOOC platforms, Saylor provides an incredibly in-depth educational experience, with active forums, a testing center, and an ePortfolio.