SEE ENTIRE LIST BELOW. THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED!
Targeted reviews Full-length courses
Guarantee yourself an A. Review for an exam. Take clep for credit. Forget paying money to audit classes that stay on your transcript. Forget begging instructors to sit in.
MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley: Http://www.edx.org - Thanks AsuWest2 Multiple Colleges (certificate of completion available for some courses): Http://www.coursera.org - Thanks AsuWest2 Multiple Colleges: Http://www.udacity.com - Thanks AsuWest2 Roku (See below for link) - Thanks AsuWest2
UC Berkeley Webcasts (link below) - Thanks BloodyInsane Also on iTunes U. (link below) - Thanks BloodyInsane
Physics II (MIT): Electricity and Magnetism, full semester by Walter Lewin, an excellent instructor at MIT - Demonstrates Faraday Cage (end of lecture 5), fires rifle with methane gas (end of lecture 4), jams radio station (end of lecture 27), makes colors out of black, white, & red (end of lecture 29), explains rainbow (lecture 31)..: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magnetis...
http://www.khanacademy.org/ is another. you can take courses, but cannot earn a degree. Lends credence to the expression 'buying a piece of paper' doesn't it!
Khan is very good. In addition to that, here are a few others.
All free--- Http://www.edx.org MIT, Harvard, Berkeley Http://www.coursera.org --courses from-lots of good colleges/universities Http://www.udacity.com --instructors from good schools
Generally the same courses as on campus. Free. Never credit, but often u can get a certificate of completion.
For another splendid downloadable physics course, look for Prof Richard Muller's Berkeley class called 'Physics for Future Presidents' , available on iTunes and also from somewhere deep inside berkeley.edu I also highly recommend Prof Muller's book of the same name - and he'll even autograph it for you if you go up to campus on Cal day in April.
Any suggestions for an excellent free online class about Balmer and Lyman series or one that explains exactly how protons and electrons follow magnetic field lines?
For UC Berkeley classes, here are some links for old CS and math exams, in case you want to test yourself. Having personally taken some of these tests, don't worry if you "bomb" them. For reference, 50% is about average on CS exams and 60% for math exams and usually translate to C grades. You should also be able to find old homeworks, projects, or exams for other departments if you Google the department or course's home page.
where can you get a certificate of completion from which school i would like to take some accounting or engineering courses and then hoping i could use the certificate of completion for real college credit somewhere
crtt said: where can you get a certificate of completion from which school i would like to take some accounting or engineering courses and then hoping i could use the certificate of completion for real college credit somewhere
I don't think you are going to find any school that will accept any of these as transfer credits (except, probably, a diploma mill). For one thing, I don't think these are graded. But the biggest reason is if schools accepted this, why would anybody bother attending in person at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars. It would be cannibalizing their own business model.
What these courses are great for is the ability to audit a class from far away for ones own enrichment. It can help prepare you for a college degree program, perhaps impress an employer, expand your own mind and, what the heck, let you casually drop how you took classes at MIT, Berkeley, etc.
crtt said: where can you get a certificate of completion from which school i would like to take some accounting or engineering courses and then hoping i could use the certificate of completion for real college credit somewhere Take a look at the CLEP Examination program http://clep.collegeboard.org . The exams are generally for entry level courses and cost under $100 each. If you take them, the college you are considering may take them in lieu of actual courses. Always check first to determine what your college's criteria are for accepting, granting and posting credit.
Everyone, thank Bo. He said that this will be a sticky for about a month to see what everyone thinks, and then make a decision from there. I guess he was waiting to hear what curses would come out of my figurative mouth.
I have watched every single physics class offered. Walter Lewin is a terrific instructor who demonstrates the Faraday Cage (escape a lightning blast), uses methane gas to fire a gun, and other fun stuff. Faraday and the gun are at the ends of lectures 4 & 5: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magnetis...
Thank you, OP! And if Bo's name should be mentioned in order to keep this going, then: THANK YOU, BO! It is such a great resource, so many folks jumping in with great links and even advice on certain professors. I'd been planning to check FW to see if Khan Academy or some of ther others had info her and.voila!! The discussion has been started. I'll be brilliant soon, y'all just wait and see. TX!
CPenn said: Thank you, OP! And if Bo's name should be mentioned in order to keep this going, then: THANK YOU, BO! It is such a great resource, so many folks jumping in with great links and even advice on certain professors. I'd been planning to check FW to see if Khan Academy or some of ther others had info her and.voila!! The discussion has been started. I'll be brilliant soon, y'all just wait and see. TX!
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR CONTRIBUTING! - AND THANK YOU BO!
Everyone's contributions has made this into a great resource. I'm not aware of any other list that shows all of these in one place.
I took introduction to operations management at www.coursera.org, the modules included basic six sigma and lean sigma principles. The course was very informative, complete with exercises and quizzes to practice what you learned on the video lectures.
Word of advice though, if you're not ready to spare at least two or three hours of your time on the courses don't take it. It'll just be a waste.
WashingtonState said: crtt said: where can you get a certificate of completion from which school i would like to take some accounting or engineering courses and then hoping i could use the certificate of completion for real college credit somewhere Take a look at the CLEP Examination program http://clep.collegeboard.org . The exams are generally for entry level courses and cost under $100 each. If you take them, the college you are considering may take them in lieu of actual courses. Always check first to determine what your college's criteria are for accepting, granting and posting credit.
MIT offers study groups and online Q&A with some or all free online courses. They might have completion certificates too, but I haven't looked into that.
It's excellent news that this topic has been given a stickied thread!
I ran across this thread title tonight and it triggered a memory that I had posted a thread about free online courses a couple of years ago. It took me 4 passes through the FW archives to find it - not sure why the relevant search terms didn't seem to bring anything up from the archives, but I nosed it out finally.
I don't think the following free site, Academic Earth, has been mentioned yet in this thread (but I have only skimmed here so I could have missed it - apologies if I did).
I have taken a very quick look at the site's url and it seems to still be operating with lots of universities' names on their front page.
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