39 Free Online Classes from Coursera Offer a World Class University Education to Anyone
Like to learn new things, preferably from world class experts? Then you’ll like Coursera, a new organization from which several prominent universities aim to offer free high quality online courses to anyone, anywhere.
Princeton, Stanford, U Michigan, Penn, and UC Berkeley are among the schools currently participating in the program, and combined they offer a wide variety of classes on various topics. Whether you’re interested in Humanities, Social Sciences, Healthcare, Medicine, Biology, Math, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Business, Society, Networks, Information, or Computer Science, all classes are completely free and taught online.
The free Computer Science courses may be of particular interest to our readers, and those classes include: Algorithms I and Algorithms II, Automata, Compilers, Computer Architecture, Computer Science 101, Computer Vision: 3D Reconstruction to Visual Recognition, Computer Vision: Fundamentals, Cryptography, Design and Analysis of Algorithms I, Game Theory, Introduction to Logic, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Networked Life, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Securing Digital Democracy I, and Software Engineering for SaaS.
You can see the full list of free course offerings at Coursera.org
Course length varies from 4 weeks to 12 weeks. A handful of classes start this month, and many more begin in May, June, July, August, September, November, while others are still listed as To Be Announced.
Education is a great thing, and Coursera looks to have a strong future. Hopefully they come out with an iPad app similar to Khan Academy for easier self-paced learning and for those who wish to follow along more casually.
If you like the idea of learning without a gigantic university-sized price tag, iTunes is another great resource for free classes and lessons, with videos and podcasts offering free foreign language lessons, free iOS 5 development classes, general iPhone development courses, and much more.
I would love to pass this course
Hai everyone , how can I register these kind online free courses ?
You don’t get a college credit right but you do get a certificate however, the eligibility is base on your performance on quizzes and/or problems sets. Indeed, you have to work hard to earn a certificate :-)
unfortunately, all course are not university credited nor you will get any certificate as far as i know. but learning something new or learning more is priceless. :)
This is a wonderful offer to resist for an online student like me. With various majors stated, I can see myself land with a great privilege. Good speed Coursera!
I would prefer if it was self paced rather than a conformed class structure. That’s a problem with traditional schooling, not everyone can meet their schedules.
Is a good thing trying to educate the wold, but i want to ask this question,at the end of everything will certificate be awarded
yeah, im wondering the same thing… are certificates awarded at the end of the courses.