Continued Development and Learning – Online Courses Update 2017

Your education doesn’t have to stop once you leave school, and there are abundant (and free) resources around to allow you to continue learning in a relaxed and carefree manner.  I blogged on Continued Development and Learning – Online Courses Introduction in late 2016. In this area of rapid development and vastly increasing resources, I’d like to update with the followings- e.g. Here are 250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free, some 250 courses offered by top notched universities like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown- all amongst the top 15 US universities.

These Ivy League schools are highly selective and extremely hard to get into. But the good news is that all these universities now offer free online courses across multiple online course platforms. So far, they’ve created over 300 courses, of which around 250 are still active in areas of  (click Class Central for further information)

• Art & Design
• Business & Management
• Computer Science
• Education & Teaching
• Engineering
• Health & Medicine
• Humanities
• Mathematics
• Science

Here’re a few other resources –

• UK’s Open University – hundreds of free courses including areas of languages, history, art, education, etc. Here’s the link to their catalogue of free courses. 
• Coursera
• MIT OpenCourseWare offers free lecture notes, exams, and videos from classes at MIT. OpenCourseWare (OCW) was proposed by the MIT faculty in 2000 and they have been publishing educational materials from their courses freely and openly on the Internet since the first proof-of-concept site in 2002, containing 50 courses. By November 2007, MIT had published almost the entire curriculum, over 1,800 courses in 33 academic disciplines.

Continue with your carefree lifestyle and happy learning, enjoy!

Disclaimer – Above are links to the resources I’ve found, and I donot know the quality of the courses or the provider nor I cannot be held responsible for any consequences whatsoever.

Credits and Sources – Freecodecamp which introduced the courses provided by the ivy league universities and provided link to Class Central

Class Central – https://www.class-central.com/

Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/

Couresa – https://www.coursera.org/

How to Geek on introducing the MIT OpenCourse Ware – https://www.howtogeek.com/117674/the-best-websites-for-free-online-courses-certificates-degrees-and-educational-resources/

MITCourseWare – https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm