Free Courseware from Top Universities

A great way to brush up on your current skills or even learn a new one without ever setting foot in a classroom is currently available online, and from some of the top universities in the country. Online courses have been around for some time, but more and more private universities are offering them free of charge to anyone with a curious mind. They won't count towards college credit, but they'll get your started on the right path. Who ever said education stops after you graduate?

Here are some links you may want to bookmark:   

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT's OpenCourse Ware is a free and open educational resource for self-learners. It offers lecture notes, outlines, assignments, and other course materials used in the teaching of almost all MIT's students. The program has already published over 1,400 courses as of May 2006.

Stanford University: offers lectures, interviews, music and sports for download on iTunes. The material is free, and the best part is you can download it to your iPod.

Princeton University: The @Princeton courseware offers multimedia presentations of lectures and courses on various subjects.

Yale University: Video courses will be launched in the fall of 2007, and will include syllabus and transcripts in seven languages. Courses will be free, of course.

World Lecture Hall: Created by the University of Texas at Austin, the website offers over 1,500 courses from different colleges.

Syllabus Finder: Created by George Mason University, the site can retrieve over 100,000 courses from college websites.

There are thousands of free classes online, so if you have some recommendations, enter them in the comments below.